The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-02-04
History Of a Western In.
stitution BY c. Vincent.

Sldered gross lmpudenCe by trust
grain dealers and they denounce your
transactions as illegitimate trade.
They have tyrannized over you aud
exacted tribute from you so long, that
it seems to them impudence for you to
attend to your own Business.
They claim the right to collect un-s
limited toll from you and to reap the
reward OF your labor.
The purpose OF the Farmers Coop
epartive Shipping association Is not
to fight other corporations or other
business industries. II Is our pur-
pose and aim to better conditions IN
securing for the farmers and wealth
producers the rights and opportuni-
ties that naturally belong to them.
We have learned to our sorrow that
selfish pools, trusts and combinations,
organized for profit, are not TO be
trusted with handling our business,
and they reap where they have not
sown and take what does net belong
to them.
We are organized to attend to cur
own business. TO attend to our own
business, in this age of powerful COM
binations, the farmer and grain grow
er, business man and wealth producer,
must form a combination In their own
interest strong enough to successfully
conduct their own grain business
Farmers. grain growers and the c0un-
try business men should take stock In
the Farmers Cooperative Shipping
| association, and capitalize their COM
pany with sufficient cash to finance
their own business and protect their
own welfare.
| Local farmers organizations and 1O-
cal elevators will never solve the pro-
biem of marketing grain in the most
economical manner. Individual ship
| ping associations and independent
| farmers elevators will never be able
to compete with the powerful combina-
tions of capitalists now engaged IN
the grain business. Nor will they be
able to withstand the onslaught Of
misrepresentation, bribery and insin-
uations hurled against their leaders
by their combined competitors. AS
stated before the stockholders Of the
Farmers Cooperative Shipping asso-
cation act together as one man.
| The company places experienced
men to manage the local elevators
and has inaugIrated business sys-
| TEN by which the central manager
| receives daily reports of business
| transacted at each of the local eleva-
tors operated by The association. The
association keeps the managers at To-
cal elevators thoroughly posted on
the market. 1t has its travelling audi
tors to check up the local stations
and has uniform system of conduct
ing the business at all its stations.
| Our company has been libera.iy
supported. by farmers taking stock III
the association, yet the subscriptions
have not been sufficient to enable the
company to secure all the needed fa-
cilities for handling gram to best adj
vantage. A terminal elevator Is need
ed, and needed badly. 1t is an utter
| impossibility for local independent
| elevators to secure and operate sue
| cessfully terminal eley ator: but un-
| der the plan of the Farmers Co-orera-
tive Shipping association, 1t will not
| be long until we will operate our
own terminal elevator where we can
clean. clip, scour. polish and mix grain
when Ii Is an advantage to do so, and
place 1t in the best commercial condi-
tion to secure the best possible price.
A terminal elevator owned and oper-
ated in the interests OF farmers would
| gain for them In n financial way about
as much profit In transacting sneir
business as they now gain at the local
end OF the line We are strongly In
hopes that the farmers win awaken
10 the necessity OF operating their
own terminal elevator and subscribe
literally for stock 10 enable the CONF
pany TO buy or build such an elevator
at Kansas City
II farmers would act wisely and In
q way that will secure the very beat
advantage aud enable the company 10
pay as much for grain as other iine
elevators can pay. they will so TO
work and assist IN combating the lo-
cal shipping associations and local
elevators and merge them into one
company. the Farmers Cooperative
shipping association. One strong.