The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-03-28
How 70 Mako Potatoes Pay,

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How TO Mako Potato Pay.
IN previous article written BY me
and published in this paper believe.
I made it clear that, under ordinary
conditions, it costs about forty cents
to raise bushel of potatoes.
Now the question is, how to get this
price one year with another.
The direct answer is: Don't sell un-
less you obtain this price.
Brother Farmer: Did you ever
pause to consider what the result
would be were you to refuse to sell
any OF your products for the period
OF rty-eight hours?
The result would be that you could
sell at your own figures, which would
mean living prices.
NO corporation or industry of any
sort manufactures an article at cost
OF one dollar and sells it for fifty
CENTS. These Industries make fair
profit. And why? Because of their
organization. We are living in an
age OF mutual organizations, and if
we expect to keep pace with others, we
farmers must organize too. How is it
that the liquor dealers can sell stuff
practically worthless at ten times it's
actual cost. while the farmer produces
something which is absolutely neces-
sary to every human beings existence
and such products have to 20 begging
to find market at less than half their
actual va]ue?-
It is time, indeed, that the American
farmer awoke and took steps to save
the American nation from destruction.
l fully agree with John D. Rookie
Teller that on the surface the general
financial condition of the country is
good, but there is an undercurrent
that looks otherwise.
Let US remember that the farmer is
the foundation of all true and perma-
nent prosperity, and if the foundation
is not sufficiently strong the whole
thing is certain to, sooner or later,
collapse. Therefore, it is to the inter-
est of every honest business that the
farmer should prosper.
But what sort of an organization
should effected? We be could hardly
join either the wholesale or re-
tail Dealers associations, and to
cooperate with the boards of
trade is impossible. Such organi-
cation must be one which aims to bene-
tit the farmer, and, since the American
Society of Equity is now on fair
footing, having about one million
members and number of local unions
IN this vicinity, it would be we'll to
make ourselves acquainted with the
plans and working of that organiza-
ton, and, if we think it worth while,
let us join hands with such society in
its efforts for justice. The association
thinks that the American farmer is
sufficiently intelligent to know the
value of his own products, and hence
that he-and ne alOne-shOuld name
the price. ''-J'' =, c.'>~-.' & -. :
The American Federation of Labor
has offered to aid the Society of
Equity by every means at it's disposal.
Why? Because the federation realizes
that while the people are paying exor-
bitant prices for farm products the
producers get but beggarly share.
We are told that supply and de-
mand rules prices. It should, but it
does not, and no one is in better
position to know this than the farmer
Upon such existing conditions the So
ciety of Equity bases it's foundation.
I appeal not only to the farmers,
but to every honest citizen of the COM
munity, regardless of occupation, to
aid US in our efforts for justice.
.--. Louis Rust.