Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-20
A FARMERS TRUST
Plans For a National Combina-
ton of Farmers to Main
tain Prices
WOULD REGULATE DISTRIBUTION
Call for National Convention of Agr-
cuturists to Meet in Chicago on Sept.
s. All the Various Farming Inter
ests Have Been Invited to Send Dele
gates.

Chicago. Aug. 2O.-Plans for ma
| tional combination of farmers to MAIN
tain prices, regulate distribution and
| fight all combinations of middle men
were launched at the Grand Pacific
| Hotel yesterday. A call for conVen-
ton of progressive farmers to perfect
the details of the scheme was issued
by the Farmers National Cooperative
Exchange Company, the American So
ciety of Equity and other agricultural
| interests represented at the confer
ence Uniform prices of 81 bushel
| for wheat Decent corn and Accent
oats We're mentioned as one of the
objects to be worked for.
IF the farmers are kept prosperous,
said j. A. Everitt of Indianapolis, VINO
acted as chairman of the meeting,
hard times are impossible.
The call for national convention of
agriculturists sets Sept. as the date
erins. 1t asks that the grain, stock.
fruit. cotton, dairy and other produc-
ing interests be represented. special
plea is made for the presence OF m
dividual farmers TO aid in devising a
plan of organization that Will be most
acceptable to the agricultural interests
Of the country The call is signed by
Robert Lindblom, j. A. Everitt and d.
l.. Wilson.
Farmers are most suspicious of city
people," said Robert Lindblom, and
especially of board of trade men. Aud
they have reason for feeling so. ANY
plan of combination must have as Its
basis the separate interests of the IN
diyidual farmer. That is the only wa!
in which it can obtain the confidence
OF the men that it intends to benefi.
We must provide a means by which the
producer can store his product until
he can market it protitably. We
should not seek to revolutionize the
markets, but simply to control distri :
BUTTON Mr.. Lindblom said that it
would be unwise and impossible to try
to fix uniformly high prices for farm
products, tho some of those present
maintained that the new combination
could fairly be expected to accom-
plish this.
j. A. Everitt, president Of the Am
erican Society of Equity, an eight
months old organization, with a MEM
bership list of over $4,000 farmers
explained the objects which led to the
holding of the meeting.
The speaker said that consolidation
and combination were the order of the
day, and that the farmers Of the coun-
try, representing it's real wealth, We're
the only class as yet unorganized. Ac
cording to MIR. Everitt there are in the
United States 100000 farms WHOSE
owners or operators would be glad 20
join a trust if it could be shown tina;
it is their interest to do it.
Swift and reliable information as to
market conditions all over the coun-
try is one of the services to be rem
dered by the combination to its mem
bers. The plans of organization We're
tentatively taken UP and sentiment
developed in favor of the immediat
formation of local farmers unions
in the twelve grain growing states of
the country Cooperation was said
to be the keynote of the new move. the
voting power in it's management as tbs
large share owner.
Fruit growing interests in the south
We're represented by w. d. Carlisle of
Va Mr. Carlisle said that
the growers all over the country Were
organized in various marketing asso-
and that any new organiza-
ton would have to be practical, no.
to persuade them to
with it,
d. w. Wilson of Elgin, ILL.,, showed |
how farmers trust would be profit
able for the dairymen and other pro-
iucers of natural food products.
A sweeping attack upon the middle
man. was made by II. II. Carr, who
nstanced the grain trade Of Illinois as
4 case of the evils resulting from this
tol-taker." According
TO Mr.. Carr the grain producing inter
ests in this state represent $1,000, 900 900
capital, but the price for their products
S entirely regulated by the Grain Deal
ars' Association, which represents but
s10,O00,000. Other present present at
he meeting were Hamilton White, ..