The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-03-10

&c Of the Farmers Union, | am
re tonight to make you a talk
mo lines of interest to the far
by am not a farmer as you
know. | was raised on the
RIM. hoed cotton and plowed
IN until | was seventeen. |
IN a good farm, however, and
h specially interested in the
elfare of farmers. AS ! see the
tuation, the great trouble here
fore with the farmers, is the
ck of organization. Every 9TH
interest is conducted along
hes of combinations and coop
ation. Take the great manu-
cturing interest of the nation
hd they are united by solemn
Extracts and agreements. You
Init buy a Deering Mower for
he cent less than you can buy a
Mccormick. Why? Not because
bese corporations have any
lock in each other, but because
" combining they force you to
|av their price. The wholesale
Establishments in the East and
North are welded together for
he sole purpose of fleeing the
consumer. Suppose one OF you
|armers desired to buy a car load
i merchandise, how would you
home out? No doubt you think
lou could get a car load as cheap
Is any merchant in Hope because
lou would be buying by the
Wholesale, but when you got the
brice you would be badly disap-
pointed. You are not a merchant
Ind for that reason you would be
charged more than the merchant
IN Hope on a purchase of a car
load of the same goods. They
kall this protecting the trade. If
Eou send off and buy an article
Except from these mail depart
|nent houses, the merchant in
your town selling that line of
Foods will get a commission on
what you buy. 1t has been but
a few years since a gentleman in
Prescott built a fine house, he
bought a bill of goods from a
firm in St. Louis and
paid what he thought was the
wholesale price, but after the bill
was paid, a certain establishment
in Prescott received, or was Of
fered a commission on this same
bill. One merchant in Prescott
bought from a wholesale house,
a set Of harness. The dealer at
Prescott who was selling this
wholesale firms, goods demanded
a commission on this set of har-
ness and | presume got it. This
arrangement from their stand
point, is all right. But why not
the farmers also combine as well
as these wholesale fellows?
But that is not the hardest
thing against the farmer. Here
tofore the farmer has stood by
and let the fellows fix the prices
at both ends of the line. By
their exchanges they fix the
price of their manufactured goods
and also fix the price of the far
ners' wheat, corn and cotton.
The great cotton exchange of
New York says what you shall
receive for the price of your la
DOR toll and self-sacrifice. No
what it costs you to
make a pound Of cotton, those
with silk hats who
never saw a cotton field, get to-
gether and say what the price of
cotton shall be. They gamble on
he sweat of your brow and care
for the toll and struggle
IF you and your children. They
get at it in many different ways.
They will get up what they call
statistics showing several million
BALES more than is actually made
and scare the spinners into the
belief that cotton will be cheap
er later on and the spinners will
not buy until the farmers are
forced to sell at a low price, then
when the cotton is out of the far
ners hands the price will go up.
Sometimes they make a mistake
out not often. At the request of
The cotton growing states a spe-
cial bureau was established and
o and behold the scoundrels
bought out the clerks in that de-
oartment and actually mad false
reports published. Again that
department. sprung a lead and
gamblers in Wall street knew
what the report would be sever
al days before it was made pub
ic. Gambling in cotton futures