Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-22
ORGANIZATION REPRESENTING
300 600 FARMERS MEETS AT IN
DIANAPoLIS TO EFFECT CLOSER
OPERATION OF PRODUCERS.
CUTTING OUT MIDDLE MAN
Recommendation That Marketing Sys-
TEN Be Perfected That Producer May
Brokers' Profits.

INDIANOPILIS, Oct. 22.-With the
object of creating a trust which will ,
control the prices of all the /
agricultural products of the country, /
delegates from SO states, representing
a present membership of 100000 farm !
ers, assembled in indianapolis today
for he fifth annual convention of the
American Society of Equity. Already
the society has succeeded in greatly
minor products, and plans will be COM
pleted at the present meeting to extend
its influence over all commodities rails
ed on the farm and in the orchard and
garden. Great gains have been made
in the last year and the officers of the
organization are now predicting that
within a year one million active farm
ers in the central west will be banded
together in an offensive and defensive
warfare for higher prices.
The time of the convention. which
will last four days, will be devoted
largely to transacting the business of
the organization. Aside from the an
nual report of President j. A. Everitt,
the convention will not listen to any
set speeches. No practical politicians,
singing the praises of the horny
handed sons of toll" and with an eye
out for votes, will appear before the
convention The meeting will be
strictly business one. The members
of the American Sociey of Equity are
ION the make" They want plans that
will put money in their pockets-not
platitudes.
Marketing System Recomme nded.
In his annual address, ]. A. Everitt
president and founder of the society,
will recommend the establishment of a
marketing system for the society.
whereby its members may dispose of
Their products d'rect to the consumers
in large cities. thus eliminating mid
dlemen. Up to this time the efforts
of the society have been largely di-
rected toward education and organiza-
ton, and it is now said to be IN a posi-
ton to install a machine for market
ing that win bring home to members
the material benefits that such plan
promises
THE present convention will be the
most important and noteworthy gath
ering of the agricultural interests of
the nation ever held" declared Presi-
ion to bring to the farmers of the
country material benefits that will open
the eye of all of them. BY securing
better prices for the growers of farm
products it does not mean that the
consumer will have to pay advanced
prices for his supplies. On the con-
trary, it is our intention to eliminate
some of the toll-gates that now stand
between the producer and the consum-
err. The middlemen are now getting
more than they are entitled to- Our So
ciety intends to divide some of the
| middlemen's profit in an equitable
manner between the producer and the
consumer"
Hold Products to Control Markets.
The plan of the society is to control
| the supply of agricultural products in
the hands of the first owners and hold
| 1t until the price demanded is paid
1 Up to this time the most aggressive
| work has been done in sections of the
4 country producing largely of a certain
] crop. as in the tobacco growing dis
| tricts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
| ginia. There the society is in almost
! absolute control, and the tobacco
trust" is forced to pay the price
asked. The plan has also been worked
successfully by the Farmers union of
the South in controlling the cotton
crop.
At the present meeting minimum
selling prices will be established on all
farm products and the members win
then pledge themselves to hold their
stores until the market price reaches
the coveted figure. Already the So
ciety has established commission
houses in st. Louis and Kansas City,
and the wheat growers of the South
west are patronizing them literally.
Through the society's agency, mem