The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-01-06


have signed this pledge to stand to-
gether and help those who help us.
Your competitor will get our entire
trade and you'll get none as long as
you are out Goodbye"
go out and by the time | get fifty
yards away | hear him calling me to
come back. He says:
Say, you are right about that mat
rte Please take this 10000 and let
ME come in. | do want some of that
trade. ! ought to help my friends
anyhow
accept his apology and his money
and let him in Then go to the next
wholesaler OF course he would neve
be able to sleep until he did his duty
and put himself in line to divide III
even with the others and come
promptly in. So with the others. Their
tackle the banks. go TO one anC
say;
Il want you to help rs and come
in and pay $4,000"
How in the world thepresident
says, can l ever get $4,000 back
out OF that organization if | put 1t
in it"
I say: "All things being equal we
are going to help those yho help us.
You'll gc5 = large share d their de
POSTS
He promptly sees the point and
helps audable enterprise by becom
ing q member after consulting tbs
directors, and puts on oar badge and
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diateiy deposit ali my collections
with hjnf-even that $zco he has just
given me.
Then l go to the competitor across
the ay and tell him my wants The
same argument works there. and this
bank comes into the ranks to retain
| or increase his business and de-
post the collected fee there
Then ; sorry around AID see the
planters living III town. perhaps can
a meeting in that town and tell
them what success l have had and
they see II looks like success and JON
all paying a fee, getting a badge and
taking the pledge
Then | tackle the retailers and say
The price Of your initiation is $500,
$1,000, $1,000 or $500, whatever it
may be. and get one in with the or
ders for supplies He comes in.
! | go to the next one and say: Mr.
Jones Is with us, and wears our badge
Don't you want some of this trade p
"Of course | do.Here is your money,
give me a badge to put on my coat
and another to go on my door. / saw
a fellow with badge on pass by me
a moment ago, and after staring al
my door he went into Jones store
He certainly must have been looking
to see If | was a member He useC
to do all his business with me.
wonder if that was the reason he die
not come in and buy from me lik,
/ he always has been doing?"
In this way every business, ever
the railroads can be canvas5ed, am
all its members brought in.
i Even the doctors and lawyers an,
other professional men will contri
butte. Resides this. the money will b
contributed cheerfuily for the reasot
that each one can see that all VIII
live here must come in; large fun
will be realized, and it will give tn
association power and strength: an
each one is inspired with the belle
that it will have the ability to accom-
plish what if sets out to do. The sam
argument that brought each membe
in will keep him in and induce him t
obey the rules and keep UP his due
Fl | raise a large fund, say $Ioo, ooo.ot
Now, can. [ control the size of tn
crop and market 1t to advantage?
We hold a meeting January Ist /
some central city, and figure wha
crop IS needed and fix the price "
! INST get for it. AS the manager fc
Washington county | am in attend
ance. | am advised that we need oni
10000, 600 bales. Washington coun
tvs pro rata is $4,000 bales. It usua
" makes 10000. about I look at N
plantation lists and I select frol
: each place a certain number of acre
of land usually planted in cotton ar
!, call meeting Of the planters an
say: Gentlemen, we want only S
many acres of land planted to ootto
Are you willing TO reduce your acr,
I age z
planter rises and says: Il HAY
SIX childrn and my place is NOR
Gagged for 100000 at 10 per cen
interest: can't afford to LET my Ian
] BE idle No. can't reduce.
ooh S4H We don't rrnnnee n If.ft