Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-01-18
AN IMPORTANT uflN6.fARMfRS PROTECTION
They are Beginning TO Learn
: =. the Value Of Combination.

They are. Beginning TO Learn
:. p, the Value Of Combination. +
In Ramsey county, this state,
there is organized a line of ele-
vators known. as the Farmers
Grain Company, capitalized at
$3.50. 900 with George w. H. Davis
Of Starkweather as president,
and W. G. Samuels as Secretary.
They have elevators at four
teen stations and their object in
organizing was to help them-
selves in marketing the ir grain
and to save tie fee paid mluuie-
men: They have a membership
on the Board of. Trade at Mime
,apolis and Duluth and handle
their own product, and no *one
but actual producers along their
line Of elevators are permitted
to own stock. @s:r~.r = /
They are formulating plans byi
which they will he able to takel
in the chief wheat growing Sec
Itions and to organize a banking
system by which means money
may be furnished farmers for
wheat in store, so that the wheat !
may be held until a fair price
can be obtained. More than
this, the farmers feel the need
! of a betternsystem of inspecting
the grain. ~ :#
Farmers have had their pa
thence taxed beyond the point of
endurance by the grain gam
oilers until they have now started
/ to fight their own battles, and
when properly organized and Off
! cered by competent men Of
{ known veracity there'll be some
] thing doing. They will not only
have their own banking houses,
|ibut they will have their mercan-
title houses and ship. in machin-
Iery. provisions and in fact, all
i the necessaries of life and fur
4 nish these sat actual cost to- the
I Istoc hold ders: :ss:s.::s
There is a point. at which for
q bea,ance ceases to zbe virtue!
4 That point ha: been reached with
the farmer. He5is no longer the
j, tshav-seed'' with long chin.
IWhiskers. He is Intelligent and
observing and through rural
route deliveries he is supplied
with daily news and has become
!: as intelligent az the shreWd bus
..s mess man. He fully realizes now
d that the withholding OF his pro-
duce will drive the business man
.:out of busine close the doors
Of large manufacturing estab-
lishn1ents and cause general dis.
aster .:=: s: 5S u
He has patiently toiled only.
4 to be robbed OF the products Of
u His labor until he has become
llirnpatien :s>., s. y ..}s :3 81. i.
The time was when farmers
$Iund ertook to- organize for self
!, rejection that some outsider
4 would get busy and breed dis.
ssisentions and break up conf
ii denca, but not so now. They
I have found that they must hang
& together, or hang = se seDarately:
8 and they preferthe former meth
+ Cd Of hanging. 55:s 81.
From the q earl lest. his tory of
Il our country dioWnSt the present
9 time the farmer has been. more
= thanWilling TO stand his share
4 Of the running expenses of the
goyerrilne III has beaten his
alploW share into weapons Of war
} land fought vail antly ii, defense
ofs his country ard whenever and
wherever his co OuI1try has called
!. for his aid he has freely giiV,1enit.
8 hileY China 81 four mil lion are
1Idying today d starVat ion to
What source are they looking
n y for 4 aid is d propased that
n Iowa S governor ask theprosper-
u 4 Gus sons of her soil stto donate lib
5SferallV fro the pro- duct of their
g 81 farms. made productive by IN
q teNigent fasaai1l
/. . hen crops fai aid { He nj are
On the verge of starvation then
m itisst that we com tn5 fill real
Il ize the burden that the farmer
sfI has to bear id tll importance
intel lligent min
4 Let us Elien, ere ii Id is ii TOO late,
] join hand 81 nj Eli the farmer asao
aaS|| assist him III way chat
\ Al can III getting i'll reconape
y y for his labofs 80 thai, HE will bs
q I olatented to iieVote all his
q time ID the t proper deval alongneatt
4 4 of 6 his Farm hat ttae sol lanay oa
IA eoslaa even Id orc proauet asss
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