Cañon City record., 1901-11-28
IN UNION THERE
IS STRENGTH
A Plea for Consistent and Effect
i've Effort in Behalf of the
Horticultural Society.
EDITOR RECORD:

1t is conceded that it is only through
a thorough organization completely
defining aim and purpose if not openly
yet by the maturing of results, is and
will be the channel through which all
the great general business of the
world must be successfully conducted.
Great corporations, at first a mere
aggregation of a few individuals, COM
bine in gigantic trusts that control
everything within their scope.
There is certainly no logical reason
why the toiling millions-the workers
who as parties of the second part
produce through the naturalization
of natures boundless resources an
accumulated wealth that staggers
the statistician-s should not also form
protective unions as combines for mu-
tual advantage. They have done this
with one exception-the tillers or
toilers of the soil have utterly failed
to appreciate or unite for mutual help
and protection.
1t is certainty that unless agri-
culturalists and horticulturalists do
form societies and stick to them for
the conservation of their vital inter-
ests they will be hopelessly the prey
of the middleman, the corporation
and combine. Before the producer
of the kindly fruits of the earth can
meet the consumer he is robbed of
half or more of the product of his in
dustry. But this is not all. While
the laborer or mechanic is stoutly
contesting for his rights assumed or
otherwise he can maintain more or
less equal struggle, it simply being a
question of brains and endurance.
But the farmer and the fruitgrower
meet at every step the insidious pests
and insect foes that ambush him on
every side preying in the dark on the
growth and substance of his toll, rem
dering futile his mightiest effort.
1t is in aid of these workers which
feed the world and without which the
direst calamity and ruin would at
once overwhelm all other forms of in
dustry or investment that the govern
ment spends millions of dollars in ex-
pertinent and observation.
But in order to make effective all
this painstaking work there must be
the auxiliary individual, and from him
the strong assertive united society
where each man and woman lends at
least their persistent and consistent
effort and-not least-their presence
and the few hours within the year
necessary to secure all the utility and
advantage of combination, Of conser-
walton of energy and practical inter-
change of experience and OBJ lervation.
No man or woman can arrogate to
themselves the belief that they know
it all, and probably in no avocation is
there more need for mutual help in
the line of every day work than in
that of the farmer and fruitgrower.
1t must be apparent to all that these
must throw of their lethargic indiffer-
ence everywhere and make their heads
help their hands if the best success
is desirable. In no way can better
results be attained than in heartily
supporting the county or local society,
spending the time and effort necessary
to secure through cooperation the
highest and best results.
The Fremont County Horticultural
society, which has name and needs
to live and yet is practically inopera-
tive and to almost every intent dead,
should be at once reorganized upon a
practical and efficient basis, and dur
ing this fall and winter establish it.
self SO firmly that our people may not
only see its necessity but resolyo and
insist in perpetuating it for self inter-
est and protection
A MEMBER.
M0RF XMAS pRI7Ec