The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-08-31
Progress Of the Tobacco Association.

10 ~ aAANihhNt7 VI AA' 4 alhiHi, ASS
citation have great cause for encourag
ment at the progress they are maxim
all through the dark tobacco belt d
virginia. Meetings have been largel,
attended and nearly all who wei
present pledged their 1905 crops Of {,
0acco. 1t looks as II, by the time IN
crop is ready for market, at least q
per cent of the tobacco will be in IN
hands Of the Association. In CONVEX
sation with gentleman a short tim
ago, who had travelled over territor,
from which we succeeded in gettin,
very little tobacco last season, aske,
him If the farmers were organizing il
that section. He replied, Yes sir
some are joining every day, and
think there is now al least 30 per cent
OF the crop IN that section pledged. p
Good example for other counties {,
follow. Farmers are becoming edu
Gated more fully as 10 their true con.
dition IN the past, caused by the OPP
preston Of the trust and by what
means they can be assured Of getting
at least a decent price for their tobacco
after laboring over it 80 hard, and nee
essarily at a great expense Yet,
there are some, who, through fear Of
not selling the tobacco placed in the
"Sink Hole, are holding OIL, sacridc-
ing their tobacco by selling ON the
warehouse floor, thereby lending a
helping hand To those who are fast
crushing the farmer out Of existence
by paying him less for bis tobacco
than the cost Of production
Let all farmers get this thought
thoroughly impressed upon their
minds, namely that if the Association
can get a sufficient amount Of tobacco
pledged, that within itself will guar.
antee sales. Don't worry about what
has been pledged, but go TO work;
pledge your tobacco and get Others to
do likewise. Upon you, fellow farmer,
individually, rests responsibility
that you cannot shirk. Remember
your duty you owe your family. Re- |
member the solemn vow you made at
the marriage altar that you would |
love and protect her whom you had |
chosen "a companion for life. Re |
member when you fail 10 cooperate |
with your brother farmers in the
for selfprotCction, you are
untrue to your vow, remember when
you continue to put your tobacco on
the open market, subject to the de-
mands and commands of the great to-
Dacco trust, you are simply throwing
wide open the doors Of your Virginia
homes and inviting a heartess trust 10
come in and deprive you Of your
homes and reduce your loved ones 10
poverty and suffering. How long will
you stand with open doors tits in
your power TO close your doors against
hese intruders, and with the key"
cooperation lock them a. protec-
ion to yourselves and families Now
5 the time for every farmer to act in
lependently Of the outside influence
hat is brought TO bear on some who
ire almost, but not fully, persuaded to
hedge their 1906 crop.
Not long since gentleman, connect
d with a warehouse, said to a farmer,
You are condemnlng aud fighting {
he trust, while you are forming trust
This man was SO uneasy for fear Of
)sing his job, and would have TO do +
: we old farmers are doing, make a d
wing by the sweat Of his own brow,
nd not by thatof the farmers, that he {
ad not thought Of the difference.
TO be brief a. / can, | will say. The q
rust is a company, incorporated for I
he express purpose Of controlling d
rices on products belonging to Others {
han themselves, by crushing out Of 4
xistence with capital or by any other 8
leans they can devise, all competition {
nth which they come in contact, :
hereby expressing the producer. b
The Farmer Organization is incor- r
Grated, not to fix prices on products j
+ others, but for the purpose Of fixing c
nd controlling prices on products q
lade and owned by themselves, and !
, create all competition possible, 10 d
void oppression 10 the producer. t
We claim we have a right 10 be plac-
4 on the same basis with other bust a
ess men, that we may be able 10 sell 4
ar products where we please, 10 +
HON we please and at price that o.
i'll compensate us for making and n
larketing them. This seems 10 me r.
fair, just and unselhsh claim, that o
e present TO all fair, honest minded n
nd sensible men. Yet we hear Of p
There are some, under Fl
and, who say we are not treating the @
lyers in Virginia right TO sell the to- a
lcco we have on hand 10 the foreign n
iarkets. Yet hear some Of the Viz
mia buyers say they will not buy IT, =
this is the condition of affairs we n
re in dilemma. We have tobacco J.
D hand, must not let the markets v
now we have it, won't buy it. Ha ! n
Ia That is funny. Will some one e
wise us 2
In conversation with a gentleman,
M long since. and by the way. he