The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-13
TO THE FARMERS OFLEE COUNTY,

Cooperative Union Of America
and the Southern Cotton Grow.
ers' Association have both fully
considered the cotton situation in
its fullest sense and did it after
having gotten at current statis-
tics as could be and these statis-
tics were corroborated aud veri-
fed by the government report
and they have not as yet been
| proven to be false. / have been
| in a work for two months which
has afforded me the opportunity
of seeing more crops than any
other man in Lee county and my
work has given me the opportu-
nifty Of talking to more farmers
individually and collectively than
any other in the county and |
will add that I have also talked
to many merchants in a private
capacity and also to no few Of
them in my public speeches, and
all of them endorse what L say
in my public speeches and believe
my private conversation and |
will say that / have been COM
pIimented on all sides for my
two writings that appeared in
the Journal and that encourages
me to come again and express
my sentiments and give you my
views and tell you a few things
that l have learned on this great
campaign and | will also tell you
of one or two observations that
! have made and one or two
charges that have been hurled
in my face all along the way by
farmers, merchants, lawyers and
tailors.
First, l find that the crop is
truly short one and / find that
all farmers believe in the COM
mercial rule that holds good
throughout the world and
the one rule that is practiced by
all others and is also practiced by
the farmer in his dealings with
his brother farmers and that is
that the owner or seller of chat
tie has the right to make the
price of his chattle, and / find
many men who are very noisy
and firm in their assertion Of that
right and also in the assertion of
the right to weigh and measure
their commodity and will snort
and cavort and swear that they
hope that the day will soon come
--hen they will get that right
awarded to them.
: Now, my brother, | tell you in
this article just as / tell you in
all my speeches that the only
say-so you will ever have as to
prices is through organized eff
ort and that say has already been
said by the Farmers Education
al and Cooperative Union and
the S. G. G. A, in making a min=
imum price Of II cents for cot
ton and one cent a pound for cot
ton seed, and / will say that both
of these organizations spoke by
delegated power and it is the on-
ly way that you or any other or
ganized body can speak and that
it is the way in which all other
organizations do speak. It only
remains for you to act in unison
and harmony one with another,
and you will soon have the right
that you so vociferously demand.
Yes, brother, you can get that
price inside of 8 days if every
producer of cotton would keep
his majority at home and let Mr.. |
Price know that there would not
be any more cotton sold for less
than II cents and then keep your
seed and let Mr.. Seedtrust know
that they are worth l cent per
pound to use on the farm, and
then you would falsify the charge
that is hurled in my face when 4
am told that / cannot organize
the farmer and that if | do he
won't stick. Show him that you
will stick; show Mr., Price that
you have a coat Of aunt Jemi-
mas plaster" all over you and
the more he tries to pull it off it
only sticks the faster and al