Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-08-03
DoANs, TEXAS.

50 brcial 10 tAf Me7Os.
noticed a piece in our paper head
ed .Speaks for Non-union'. | wish
70 state that what little living / have
7 try to grow it on the farms of Will
berger Co., Texas, and see and feel
the effects of both union and non-un-
ION. / wish to show You little of
the effects. We have in our city of
Vernon, two elevators run by Compan-
les that buy grain, and you cannot get
them to bid against each other on
your grain. When you go to market
with load of grain the buyer comes
to the wagon with little pair of bal
ances and gets a small measure and
weighs the wheat and if it weighs out
the grade that he is buying he gives
Won bid and if it does not he gets off
the wagon and tells you to go to the
other mill. Your wheat is not the
grade that he is buying and you get
no bid until you go to the other place.
We also have six cotton buyers in our
little town and each one has his day
TO buy cotton and you can scarcely get
the other man to raise his bid. He
lust tells you that his limits are of to-
dav, so you had just as we'll take the
bid. Yet people will jump up and
say can't pledge myself to do thus
and 80 and not to do thus and So
Laboring men just stay divided up
and take what he offers you for your
stuff. / want to appeal to the honor
of laboring men. Do we have to dc
this or nots Is there no way to rem
edy this matter Some will tell you to
read your bible. 1t will teach you
all YOU need to know but just want
to tell you that there is class of peo'
ple that the bible does not teach
Then what about themy must tel
Won that they need some laws, they
need some way of being guided an(
protected. Do they notr' THE nat
ural man receiyeth not the things O.
the spirit and soon then we learl
from this that all men do not hee'
the teaching of the Bible and if the,
> do that should be no proof that the
/ do not need protection nor should
r keep them from placing some guar
A against theft.
Y Now, I will try to show you a littl
: sketch of the condition of the cotto
t grower. Probably some of the reader
: never saw stalk of cotton bloom c
!. even q lock of raw cotton. Such
g one will be interested to know that tl
J. cotton crop stands second to the graf
s. crops of our country. Last year ou
g crop of cotton sold for more than $500
O00, 600. Then suppose that the pei
pie will ever cease to grow cottol
You must remember that we on
have thirteen states or S12 countie
that will grow cotton, only small pa
Y of our great land that is suited to
pt growth. Our crop last year was {
n timated at 13, 700, 900 bales, the large
+ crop of the worlds's history. But tt
r. large crop has been rapidly absorb
is by the cotton mills of our land a
10 afar off, of which some II, 900, 600 bal
n have already been sold. The farmt
ut began to see and feel the need for sol
IL protection. The spirit of organic
tion began to spring up among
ng farmers of cotton, so a meeting "
IL held in the state in January, 19
Ior when more than two thousand de
ell gates met to consider ways and mei
re- of getting better prices as they /
we decreased from 1Sc to &c per poul
ler So the bankers sent delegates a
lui declared to lend some aid to help
CO. oppressed cotton growers to prev
nu speculation ON their labor and II
oru stability to prices. This commit
ley donated 800 as sinking fund
ny help organize the cotton growers /
al a union. The work of -organizat
has been actively prosecuted and
'no more than 1,G00, 900 cotton farm
WI stand shoulder to shoulder and dec
Ing that they will not sell their cotton
: ridly as they have heretofore,
10" will place it on the market as the n
III demand it for consumption. To
end cetton pool, with $500, OOO
zap capital, has been chartered for
NC purpose of regulating the sale OF
ton and this is to become the com
l8 sion merchant of cotton growers
nave the cotton markets of the world
felt the benefit of this move
+" y, January last for cotton has sold al
oI price of SIS per bale and that sp
T. Is some to the farmers for the 2, ,7O
bales yet on hand.
the l will close with love to the Il
ryan and good wishes to the News.
lette Joe Hackwor
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