The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
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Or Correspondents.
OUTLINE OF A NATIONAL TC-
BACCO RAISERS' TRUST.

POlAha
2. Organfzs a National Tobacco
Raisers' Trust.
8. Organize State Tobacco Raisers
Associations and organize each county
where there is a large quantity Of TO.
bacco.
4. Appoint a board whose duty it shall
be to grade the tobacco, fix the price
of each grade, rent warehouses at con
venient points, send out circulars tc
the tobacco raisers giving prices and
the amount advanced, insure, borrow
money Of the banks and advance to
depositors of tobacco, hold and sell as
there is q demand at the price fixed.
The board shall see that the tariff Is so
adjusted as to protect the products OF
this country from competition with
the cheaper products of other countries.
The Grange and Alliance began
among a few aud the masses were or
ganizsd afterwards. Trusts organized
so far begun among q few live business
men, and when prices were advanced
by the trust the price was advanced
by the firms outside to correspond
with that of the trust. The organized
force is always the power behind the
throne.
THE REASON FOR ORGANIZING AND AID
vANJING PRICES.
We consume twice as much per cap
tia as England, Germany and France.
We must command twice as many del
lars per capita as either one Of these
nations to distribute all that we can
produce and supply the natural de-
maud. As WI can produce twice as
much per capita as the three biggest
civilized nations, we must command
twice as many dollars per capita and
this can only be accomplished by co
operation There is a natural demand
for twice as much as we produce and
we have the facilities to double produc
ton.
Twice as many dollars among the
people will double consumption. We
cannot advance prices and compete on
the worlds market which forces us to
sell at the pri e fixed by capital EN-
ploying higher labor.
A system OF economics that will sup
PLY the wants of all will double produc.
ton and make a home market for all
produced. Co operation will brir G the
producer and consumers closer to
gether and save four thousand million
dollars annually and increase produc
ton and consumption to this extent.
WILL THERE BE AN OVERPRODUCTION7
While the tobacco raisers are ad-
vancing prices every other industry
will be advancing prices and in a few
years consumption and production per
capita will double. Shall the tobacco
Faisers manufacture their tobacco and
sell direct to the consumersl They
would have the power to so do in time.
This would p~recipitate q War between
the manufacturing trust and the to
bacco r~aisers' trust. All warfare should
be avoided. E Ich to their calling.
WIFI m6AAE4uW PG4SCE ~ euO low Wd
terial the tobacco raisers should be
satisfied. A national board of equal
ization can hold every trust to maxi
mum prices. Maximum prices and
there wilt be a prcf5 placed to the pro
Queer which will be in money ana in a
few years the trust would not have to
borrow money as the mopsy would
pass into the hands Of the trust.
WHAT WE NEED.
1, A national board Of equalization
to hold each class in check.
2. The tariff taken out of party
politics and placed in the hands Of a
commission composed of the best Ousi
ness men of each productive class.
8. Each class organized into a trust,
CO operating, fixing prices and wages.
Wipe every anti trust law from the
statute book as they are miserable
make shifts.
Rely on organization and not on
laws. 90 operation will bring to all
the needed relief. The country would
be better eff If 80 per cent. OF all the
laws were wiped from the statute b oke.
A country the least governed is the
best governed.
The sy stem of economics taught by
Jesus was co operatiJ N and He founded,
the only system of economics that abol
ished poverty and crime. He and HE
followers put in practice the purest
system of democracy the world ever
saw.
Would be pleased to correspond with
those who favor co operation.
JAMES MURDOCH.
Bryson City, Swain 90, N. O.
It is q real pleasure to us to speak