The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-02-16

Let's quit signing the mortgage. The
way to quit is to quit.
Those who have no faith in this or.
ganization should get out of it.
NO local should ever be dull. Get I'D
4 nice program for each meeting.
10 forward. Do not lean to the
right nor TO the left. Go on-straight
on.
There are many things your local
can do for your community. We ar,
home builders.
We have been getting on the sid
ingS. They are not safe. let's get on
the main track again.
Yes, the farmers should build wa,a-
houses or anything else they need To
property distribute their produce.
Your p!ows are all in good shape,
OF course; you kept them in the dry.
They will be ready for use.
Always remember. that, whatever is
right, can be done by the American
people.
Let no Union man silk in his tent
while there is work to be done, and
there will always be work to do.
1t is a just price for our produce we
want and must have. Brother person
al fights will never get this.
The time was when all the pow
tools were left out in the weather all
the winter
If we would succeed, we must get
down to business everywhere. This
is a national organization. and all the
producers are, or should be, interested
in this great movement.
Pillow time, 0at sowing time in the
South is here. OF course, all your
plows are ready. You will not have
to buy new ones because Of neglect.
/. Good, very good!
Again, let rs say, give your young
men'a chance. They are your hope.
Help them to be large by the proper
kind of education. You will need them
by and by.
Newspaper men who have no inter.
est in agriculture have always caused
trouble in farmers organizations, and
always will. Unless they are engaged
in agriculture, they should not be per-
mitted to join any farmers organiza.
tons.
When July is as big a cotton month
as October, the work will be done. We
can do this if we are smart-and, OF
course, we are smart.
. The home is the hope of the nation,
and the Farmers Union is the hope Of
the home. Let's build the Farmers
/ Union and let's build the home. We
need homes, beautiful homes.
Let's quit making all our notes and
accounts due early in the fall. If We
must make notes and accounts, let's
make them due at different times Of
/ the year.
If the meetings at Mineoia and at
Dallas do not settle all differences,
that's nothing to be alarmed at These
meetings will settle lots Of other
I things that are essential, and the SUI
premacy or regularity of any set OF
men OF series Vi dClOno SuI Nv NV
with any essential 'getting-on-in-the-
world" matter Don't get excited-ail
is coming out in the wash.
No, no, we are not going to do what
the producers want done in a political
way. 1t is an industrial question, and
must be settled that way. Organiza.
ton, combination and concentration
will do it
While some other people have been
Chewing the rag the Alabama
Farmers Union men have built fifty
fine warehouses the past year. South
Carolina is also building them. In
both of these States the loyal Union
men are buying the cotton from the
brethren who are forced to sell and
are holding it till the price suits them
to sell. That's BUSINESS.
The Farmers Union brethren are
taking steps to build a cotton ware
house in Saba Saba, Texas. This
.o+1;oo &o ho protty general.