The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-21
ISSUES A CALL.
Cooperative Congress in Topeka
October %.
Western and Southern States to
Be Represented.
TO AGREE ON A PLAN.
Purpose to Make Union Of CO.
operative Organizations.
Meeting Will Be Held in the
Auditorium.
70 AGREE ON A PLAN.

James Butler, acunS secretary u
the Farmers Cooperative Business
congress, which has been called to
meet in this city in the auditorium
on Monday, October %, is busy with
the preliminary plans for the con-
vening of this congress. This con-
gress is called for the following pur-
poses:
To adopt for recommendation uni
form cooperative corporation laws
and plan for their adoption by the va
rious state legislatures.
To prepare and adopt for recon-
mendatlon the most practical plan
for Incorporating cooperative tele-
phone companies with suitable by
laws for the same and recommend
them to all farmers companies or
gained in the future and to those al
ready organized.
To prepare in like manner and
adopt for recommendation plans and
bylaws for
Cooperative exchanges.
Cooperative clearing houses,
Cooperative warehouses,
Cooperative cotton gins,
Cooperative commission houses,
Cooperative creameries,
Cooperative insurance,
Cooperative -four mills,
Cooperative factories,
Cooperative elevators local and
terminal,
Cooperative packinghouses,
and 10 adopt such other measures as
the congress may deem essential to
the advancement of the cooperative
movement, and to put method sys-
tenn and harmony in cooperative
enterprises, and to unite the entire
system in a way that will give It
strength and power to execute its
plans and carry out its purposes.
Mr.. Butler has issued the call Tor the
congress which is indorsed by the tol-
lowing prominent workers in co-opera-
tive lines and many others;
R. H. Mccullough, Beebe, Ark, ma
tional secretary of the Farmers Edu-
cational and Cooperative Union OF
America.
Campbell Russell. Warner, / T,
member of national committee OF the
F. E. and c. L of A
S. o. DAVIS. shawnee, Okla, presl-
dent of Farmers Cooperative state
Union of Oklahoma
G. ". Peckham, Haven, Kan, presi-
dent Of the Farmers Independent
Grain Dealers of Kansas ass
%. NJ. Black, Preston, Kan, secre-
tary Farmers Independent Gram
G Vincent, omaha. Neb.. general
manager of the Farmers Grain com
pany of Nebraska.
]. H. Bearrup, Albuquerque, n. NJ,
president of Co-operative WOODEN
mills at Albuquerque, n. M
E J. Cook, Peu City, Ala, secre-
tarv-treasurer of the Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative Union OF Ala
bama.
rector and member of executive COM
mittee Of Farmers Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION, state of Iowa.
J. w Hagan, Barnun, Iowa, vice
president of Farmers Grain Dealers
B. F. Chapman, Dallas, Texas, secre-
tary Farmers Cooperative state
Union of Texas.
L. n. Holmes, Bernice. La, presi-
dent Farmers Cooperative State
Union.
c. S. Burrett, president of the Farm
ers' Co-operative Union of Georgia.
All of the above named are signers Of
the call which says among other things:
There are today hundreds OF coop
erative elevator companies, and numer-
Gus cooperative creameries, cooper
alive exchanges. clearinghouse and cot
ton gins that are owned and operated by
farmers in slip-shod haphazard way,
without method, system, or uniform
plans They are all doing the best they
can under sucn conditions.
.Co-operation on an equitable basis
will give service for service and enable
producers to conduct their business
transactions in a way that will render
to each the full value of their product
or service.
1T will prevent the few from con-
trolling for their own profit what all
men must use. 1t viii eliminate extor-
ton in profits and give greater reward
to honest industry.
at means the collective ownership and
control of the instruments OF production
and distribution, in the interest of the
producers, that is now owned and OPP
Grated by capitalists who use them to
plumber the producer and pile up inn
mense fortunes for themselves.
I'VE therefore call u Farmers Co
operative Business Congress to meet in
session at Topeka, Kansas, October %
1906, and remain in session the % g. D.
25, 26 and 81, or long enough to carefully
consider and act upon the objects CON
tanned in this call
I'VE invite all farmers cooperative
corporations, associations or companies
who are now transacting business in
any of the lines above named in this
call. in the state of Kansas, Nebraska.
Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Da-
kotas, Wisconsin, Missouri Colorado
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkan-
sas. Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama
and Georgia to send delegates to this
congress.
Each of these farmers cooperative
corporations. associations, companies or
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