Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-05-11
GREETING TO THE FARMERS.
Mr.. Ray Has Parting Word With
Audrain Tillers of the Soil.

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people, and your hospitality has
been most generous to me, a stran.
ger in your midst.
My mission here was to promote
an organization known as The
Farmers Educational and Co -oper-
ative Union of America, aud my
visit has not been in vain, for
have not only interested many
farmers but have installed some
local unions in your midst.
In introducing this organization,
| am without doubt Offering to the
farmers of Audrain county some
thing that is legitimate, something
that is based upon good principles,
and that stands ready to help the
farmers as class, regardless of
their circumstances.
While it is a fact that in all Sec
tions of the farming country there
are farmers who are well-to-do,
and have all the modern conven.
fences and luxuries, there are
many of them, yea thousands, that
do not, and some have only a
mere existence, so to speak.
1t is the latter, especially, that we
wish to reach and help; yet we
want to lend a friendly assistance
to all our brothers, who are tilling
the soil for their substance.
We realize that we have a great
work to accomplish but we have a
great people with which to accom-
plish the work.
Time meyer was ripper in which
to organize the farmers of our
country than now, for at this day
and age Of the world all Yocations,
or rather men who follow all the
various vocations, are in deed and
truth, organized, except, alone the
man who guides the plow.
Hence we say that the farmers
must organize, to protect their in
dustries and thus enable them to
obtain at all times just and equita-
BILE prices for their products.
There is no class of people that
should be more respected and hon
ored and who should have a better
living than the farmers. To this
end we are striving to lift the
farmers of our fair State to the
standing they should have.
Our farmers are hard working
and industrious, as a class, and
Notwithstanding this fact they are
not recognized us they should be,
neither do they receive fair com
pensation for their products, in
which their labor is contained.
They frequently are forced
to pay ex cessive prices for necessi.
ties they must have simply be-
cause the "other fellows" are or.
ga2ized while they are not.
l say, brother farmers, let us or.
ganizr, to better our condition, to
promote ourselves, and our chill
dren, of whom we think so much
We are a part, and a great part, OF
our nations inhabitants. Our as
sessments show that we own thous
auds of dollars worth of valuable
property, both personal and real
state, and that we as a class pay
our taxes and all other debts a.
they accrue. We at all times try
to live as loyal citizens of our va
riOus counties and States.
The object Of the Farmers I'm
ion is to discourage as much az
possible the present mortgage anC
credit system, to get our people
upon a,cash basis. Last, but no
least, to aid you in buying anC
selling"
1t is to you, brother farmers
we are speaking, and we hope to
see you investigate this Warmers
Union" and enlist with us in ,
grand and glorious cause.
Let us ever remember the Colder
Rule, TO do unto Others as w
would others would do unto us,
aud strive to live and let live al
other vocations Of man, and be no
mad but desperately in earnest.l
We have over 100000 farmer
enlisted with us, and ask you
assistance and membership, tina
we may eventually tower, as
were, with other grand organiza
tions of our country, and that
may be well and truly said of us