The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-05

H-,, trust. Certainly / would,
fals' che only buyer Of cattle in the
snu would make q good thing out
c0I tn replied that if there we're a
OIL =. ~raisers' trust there would be an
o"nt of the trust in the county, and il
20 steers for sale the agent would
..oint for the steers and this would be
"a nv the bank and he would have
thing to do with any cattle except
Use he raised to sell. lido not under.
Ind the trust as you put it," 1 re-
IA h he did not know the differ.
Pa between spectators and trusts.
Trban the cattle raisers' trust is COM
Lated the calling Of your classes will
s1ne to an end
VINO has tried TO organize the farm.
-. into trusts7 Who has presented a
,rsu by which they can be organized
i,to trusts under the present financial
-rsremf 1t will be time enough to de-
r,rnce the farmers as a lot of mullet
basds when a feasible plan is presented
,o them and they refuse to organize.
This assertion is a libel on the intelli.
gsnce of the average farmer.
The writer has had sixteen years ex
nerince among the classes now organ
i,ing into trusts, and he has mingled
With toe better class OF farmers and
We have found among them as intelli
gent men and as we'll qualified to or
gsniE3 a farmers trust as we have
fund among the classes now organic
ing into trusts. Six men in each county
in the cotton raisers' belt, can organize
cotton raisers' trust and make it a
success. The syndicats and the specu
lasors are opposed to the organization
Of trus q, and especially the farmers
trust. A wheat rsisers' trust would
close the Chicago wheat pit and force
the money used to gamble upon the
price of wheat into some of our indus.
tries.
Each farm industry organized into a
rust would close the boards of trade
mich is another name for those who
geculate and grow rich off Of the
brmers' staple farm produce. It is
time for those who indiscriminately
ssssil the trusts to discriminate be
tween those organized to control the
price of their products and those who
get 8 Corner or some product and
SPECULATE off it. A trust means that q
class has the ability to control the price
- kknSa ~aAHTTnen nnH Ia hnm nnH q nun
dicate means q few men with money
gets control Of some Of the necessaries
Of life and advances the price, reaps g
!iila harvest without earning q doIIar
By robbing the producers aud consum
as. The first is protection and the
acond is robbery. The trusts organ
uai to control the price of their prod
Va should be protected and the syn
daste5 who corner an article should
be suppressed and the organized trust
will suppress them. The protective
trusts are assailed by newspapers con
trOlled by Spectators and those who
plunder the wealth producers and poll
lcians who are controlled by this class
and who hope to ride into eff e on q
false cry of 'Wolf. volt" trusts,
rUsss" Any man of ordinary intelli-
ganc9 knows that a cotton raisers'
trust fixing the price at twelve cents a
pound that this will be the price and
the man raising one bale will receive
the same prices as the one raising one
ta3us8nd bales, and it will be impos.
siOle for a syndicate to get a corner on
cotton and sDe culate off it Every
class is entitled to maximum prices
and wages, and all laws that interfere
ae unconstitutional and an outrage
UPON the Industrial classes and the
parties who make these indiscriminete
asssults should and must be defeated
0y the assistance Of the farmers who
are robbed every year by the specula-
tors of hundreds of millions, and they
are forced to compete and take the
worlds minimum prices which rob
them Of four billions and four hundred
million dollars every year. II the
farmers we're organized into protective
trusts, they would receive nine billion
dollars in 1899 instead of four billion
and five hundred million dollars.
Farmers. which will you choose
tarmers' trusts or anti trusts3 Let
your answer come by organizing farm
ere trusts Trusts T in their in
tanc7 and the farmers being isolated
Will be the last to organize, but when
they DO organize it will be on sound,
economic and humanitarian principles.
10 organizing the farmers trusts, we
vii have to meet the combired power
o. the spectators, those who live on
aGad incomes, the horde Of unneces-
arY middlemen, and especially the
commercial drummers, VINO cost the
:onsumers millions of dollars annually.
Va the other hand will be the com
Uned power Of the wealth producers
smuggling to secure the control OF the
BBtlce OF their products and wages.
5foEective trusts means freedom from
INDUSTRIAL slavery and anti trusts
means the continuance of industrial
slavery. JAMES MURDcCK.
swain county, N. Q