The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1907-03-05

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want now. when the McCnmber Bill
came up here four or five years ago
as soon as | found that all the old
line elevator companies and the min
men were opposing the McCumber bin
made up my mind that that was
what the farmer wanted, and then
you want TO go for 1T and stay by it
and stick to ii, and If we get man
| that is taking that position, stay by
4 that man. Don't let someone come
along that is getting big salary,
and say that this man is a CRATER
| that he Is looking out for his own
| interests Who is paying that fellow
his big salary? You fellows Ii you
see man bucRing the exchange, you
might know that he is afraid that
something Is going to happen. If this
society is going to go through it will
be long and hard fight, but we will
| give it a trial. The trial is worth the
money We have done enough al
ready to pay everybody that has gone
into the matter.
THE elevator question in the state
of North Dakota will be pretty will
solved soon, and am getting letters
every day that / am home--a whole
\
in more farmers elevators, and am
on my way now to Grand Forks to put
in two elevators After they are in.
the problem is solved at that point,
and it draws the farmers closer to-
gether. They are not generally as.
friendly as the business men. 1t is no
trouble at all for business man to
attend business meetings. They don't
1 fttv TsIg1 nhn tI,s. 4.
and If they want to sell anything to
friend or man they know well, they
/, will get it at cost for him, but you
don't sell your seed wheat at cost to
your neighbor-not one of you-but
You would ask him a little bit more
than you would ask anyone else, for
the reason that the farmer is not the
only saint on Gods green earth. They
are a little bit the crankiest, meanest
sort of people ] ever come up with
If you have got a little bit of seed
wheat or stuff to sell, you will charge
your neighbor more than you will your
elevator. Now, business men don't do
that IL you have got anything to
sell your neighbor farmer, you should
sell it to him for just what it is
worth in town. That is .neighborly,
of doctrine that j have always been
trying to preach, and not do fellow
the first chance you get at him. Now,
If you come into this organization it
is going TO do this; it is going to edu-
cate US, it is going to bring us closer
together every year. 1t is not going
to interfere with the elevator business,
or the store business, or anything you
tor rCiV 70 40 I,,E 4r, -
you that this is an age of corporations,
and / want to say to you that the
only thing that will destroy the trusts
and combines is the cooperation OF
the farmers, and we will have to get
together or we will have to get down
and out.
ITO the international Harvester
trust this year you will pay $5 more
for harvester than you did last year.
Every year it goes up So, and yet
this organization told you that they
would sell their binders cheaper and
that they would not be SO expensive
land vet they go up every year. / am
selling you the binder, and though the
binder goes up $5 every season, / have
never voted for anyone who favored
trusts, or backed up trusts, but you
II farmers vote that way, and when
put the binder on the market you are
the fellows that pay it-every dollar
of it. | don't take off cent. would
not give YOU bundle of twine to
take that binder out of my yard
Now, gentlemen, we want to get to
work and see what we can do about
this. This Society of Equity will ar
range it so that we can market what
stuff we have to sell and say it is
worth so much money, and we can
raise the price the same as they raise
it on their binders. Now, you farmers
don't want to take any exceptions to
what say on this question. There is
not thing that the dealers don't have
to buy of the trusts. You jump onto
the local dealer instead of jumping
onto the trusts. Now, I am ready to
get out; of business. Any time you
fellows want my business at cost, or
a little bit less, you can have it, for
| the local dealer today is not getting
1 the goods for what he used to get
them. | am selling goods today as
/ cheap as | ever bought them on the
farm, and at less profit. Then there
II Is the jobber that comes between the
dealer and the manufactures / had
II a lltue ulIlcuIty with the Emerson
II plow men little while ago, and they
took the agency away from me. /
wrote down to the factory and asked
them what they would take for car
load of those plows, +. o. b., and they
Il referred me back to the jobber and
said would have to go to him. Their
agent in Minneapolis has got the
whole business on their plows. 1t is
the same way with everything that
we have got to buy, and with what
we sell we have no business to fix
price at all
"You go to work and put your
wheat on the market We sell our
wheat for go cents per bushel 1t
goes down to Minneapolis and Duluth.
and they mix it and sscour and fix it
all up, and when that wheat comes
back to you in the -four 1t costs you
$1.20 per bushel and you have paid
the freight on the dirt and screenings,
for which you have received nothing
II went through two or three ele-
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