New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-12-16
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
or FARMERS INDUSTRIAL UNION
The Great Task Is Completed and All
Is Well Done.

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The most important thing that has
come to pass recently is the meeting
for National organization held at Tex
arkana last week. The meeting was
well attended, and by class of men
who bore all the marks of intelligence
and honesty. II was remarked by
some who don't know a real farmer
when they see them that there is an
absence of the wool hat element"
The idea that a farmer must dress
roughly on all occasions, that he must
wear uncut hair and Johnson grass
entertained now by only few ignor-
ant city scrubs, who wouldn't know a
carrot from wheelbarroW seed, nor
the difference between butter milk
COW and a cream COW. Education,
getting close together, going to meet
ing" If you please, prevents carrica-
lures of the comic-supplement sort
from fructifying. If they ever existed
they are gone to join the city girls
who wanted to get eggs from the egg
plant, and gooseberries from the
geese.
Yes, indeed, that meeting at Texar-
kama was a meeting of lot of bust
ness men in dead earnest about some;
thing They came together with di-
vergent opinions, and those differing
opinions were held by men of big hats
and broad brows' They all had rea-
sons for the faith that is in them,
and like the manly men they are, they
stood in the last ditch TO defend those
opinions: No unreasonable stubborn
ness was visible; 1t was the fight OF
honest men for principles, but through
it all there was ready and anxious
wish to accept anything better" that
any man wanted to present. There
ACCESSIBILITY of forming Il national Or
ganization at this time. 1t pressaged
an increased expense, it involved new
departures in the conduct Of Union
business IL required more officials and
a headquarters which could be in one
State only while all wanted it. On
the other hand there was need of gen
eral supervision so that all could work
together in harmonious prosecution
OF the Unions aims and objects; there
was need of central source OF In
formation as to the general progress
and plans. The matter was thrashed
out and turned over until unanimous
opinion favoring organization was
found to prevail. A committee On ny
laws anil constitution, consisting OF
J. T. Wakefield, South Carolina; H. f
Webb, Texas; r. V. Smell, Arkansas;
J.. w. Sanderson, Indiahoma; I. j.
Brook, Tennessee; j. r. Bell, Georgia
and A. r. Cole Louisiana, was ap
pointed Wednesday, and the balance
of that day as we'll as all day Thurs
day was spent in hearing every sug
gestion possible as to what should be
and what should not be put into the
report. So well was this work done
that when the report was presented
Friday morning, 1t stood six hours con
sideration by the body, every point
being most microscopically scrutin
lied, and was adopted practically
without change. So much for the
foundation work of the body.
Previous to receiving the report o
the committee on constitution and by
laws, a proposition to establish
national newspaper that should be thu
official mouthpiece of the natiOna
body came up. This matter, aftel
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