Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-01
NO. SS.

absolutely the market for his products.
and the same glorious realization Is
speedily being effected among the grain
growers.
The national union meets annually
and specifies the minimum price for
which the various farm products can
be sold at fair, living profit. The
national union does not do this arbi-
trarily and at haphazard. The dele
gates being from every section Of ev-
cry state where the union forces have
foothold. the cost Of production is
minutely obtained, with the apparent
and reasonable volume Of yields, and
upon this basis the prices are speci-
fed, only a just and fair margin Of
profit being provided for.
In a word, the middleman must go.
He is an entirely useless factor, who
has never served any purpose except
to rob the farmer by bearing the mar
ket and then robbing the manufacturer,
or the consumer as the case may be,
by bulling 1t. The Farmers Union be-
lieves and teaches that the farmer
should sell, direct to the manufacturer,
the raw material Of the farm that en-
ters into manufactures and to the con-
sumer such as do not, and this is an
other means by which 1t hopes to ena-
BILE it's members to control the mar
kets.
Moving For Direct Trade.
That they may carry their ideas Of
direct dealings with the manufacturers
into practical effect. the Farmers I'm
ion has had three conferences with the
cotton manufacturers associations Of
this country and Of Europe. One Of
these conferences was In Washington
city In 1906. when the Ice was broken
and friendly relations established. The
second was held In Vienna, Austria, In
May this year. when long strides were
made toward confidential relations and
efforts for mutual benefits and assist
ance The third conference has just
closed In Atlanta, Ga, being held on
October Z, and 9. At this last confer
ence the spinner and the cotton grower
actually came together and perfected
arrangements for trade relations sat
lisfactorily for both. They have agreed
together for the elimination Of the mid
dleman, the grasping speculator who
has so long spoiled both. The spinner
has approved the price of Is cents for
this years crop. middling basis. and
- 20 90 hnl hfo nnffnY
for that price. They have told the
farmers to ship their cotton direct to
Manchester now; or as fast as de-
sired, and they will advance rs per
cent Of the price. They have agreed to
appoint agents in this country to buy
for them, direct from the farmer hav-
ing already appointed some Of these
agents. They reasonably reserve the
right to buy for less than the 15-cent
price when a poor dupe Of a bumper
will sell and when the speculator who
has contracted with them for less Is
able to fill his contract, but they urge
the farmers to hold their cotton for the
lucent price.
They are just as anxious to be rid OF
the exchanges and the specializing.
gambling hcrdes as are the farmers,
and another thing they want is sta
BILE price, not uncertain fiuctuating
prices, such as have obtained in the
years past, ruinously low at times,
when the farmer was the victim, and
exorbitantly high at another when they
were the victims. With a fixed sta
BILE price they will know how to. con-
tract their cloths years ahead for the
various markets Of the world and can
rely with certainty upon an unfailing
supply of raw material for his spin
dies and looms.
| The farmer will have an equal as
surance Of fixed and remunerative
price for his toll, ready sale for his
products.
Several things will result this year
from this agreement. 1t will steady
and strengthen union farmers and very
many non-union farmers in holding
their cotton for the minimum price OF
Is cents. Cotton will be shipped by far
mers direct to Manchester, England.
and Lowell, Mass, on through bills OF
lading right from their own ware
houses. Now a few spectators who
have been ridiculing the hayseeds and
their union. and making contracts for
delivery at IL cents and less will be
walking around next winter with sum-
mer clothes on and working the free
lunch counters. They will be taking
the medicine they have been giving
the farmers these long years, and there
will be plenty and happiness In farm
homes. where for long years, gaunt
want and saddened hearts were to be
found.
The Farmers Union will bring
wholesome. genuine, honest. substan-
tial prosperity to the farming classes
Of all the land and then we will see an
honest genuine prosperity prevailing
among all classes and callings and In
every avenue of life-aye, Of the very
nation itself
Not only a material prosperity, but
moral uplifting, social and educa-
tional advancement o. P. PYLE,
Editor National Co-operator, Dallas.
Texas