The log cabin Democrat., 1907-07-11
ELLIS ON MORRILTON TRUST
cavs Union Was Beaten at Its
 Own Game.
Trying to Down New York Bears, Conway County Overlooked "Cubs" in
 Their Own Market.


 Headlight, State Purchasing Agent James I. Ellis of this city discusses the alleged cotton trust at Morrilton from the standpoint of the Farmers Union. He says:
 "The Morrilton combination is a very natural outgrowth of the way of doing business, and the war that is now on is the same old cry the outs always have against the ins. The Farmers Union should have nothing to do with the fight. The combine had sense enough and applied our own methods and robbed us of few thousand of our hard earned cash. These spectators, the fellows we are organizing to fight, have won out in the first inning, because we failed to catch on to their curves early enough in the game. Of course they had the advantage, both in the pitcher and catcher, and that we failed to make a. base was to be expected. Our trouble was, we failed to realize that there was anything up against Us, till we had lost the game. As farmers we have been so busy trying to fan out the New York bears that we overlooked the little cubs stealing to home plate right under our nose. We have never known how to get up and do battle to the enemy that meets us with a smile, and extends the glad hand but we are learning to play some and 1t is encouraging to know that we were lined up and got to bat. We should have been encouraged, even if we had failed to line up at all in the game, and we had only been able to discover that the oth CT side had a full team on the field. That they have been lined up and playing all the time is the hard thing for us to understand.
 Ut occurs to me the proper thing in the future tor us to do IS to keep our eye on the home-plate and let the big cubs saw wind for a while, for if we ever get an inning it will be won in this way. Boys, do not be fooled by any side play that is now on in Morrilton, or any apparent break in the lines on the other side, for as yet they have never failed to tally-and we got the goose egg every time. As union men we are lined up to fight our own battles in our own way, and it would be worse than fooolishness to expect to get good battery from the ranks Of the enemy.
 Let us not be fooled into the belief that the last year was the first time we got left-all that IS new in the game is that we are lined up to play ball. Now, as we are expecting to stay in the game, all we have to do to Wln is to make the other fellow play on his own side. We have choice of the field, and can get the um- pire, and play the game only when we are at our best-and there IS no cause to fail. We failed last year, the other side stole our tactics. They stood solididly together, act ed as one man. Do not waste your energy trying to tear up the other fellow. Let him and his combination alone, for comblna- tions are here to stay. They have come very naturally. Men will travel along the lines of the least resistance, and this drives them in- to trusts.
 "The farmers have their oppor- tunity. The other fellow has shown us the way. It IS no un- tried theory. Get together, farm CTS, and fight your own battles. Keep the enemy out of the camp; compel him to shinney on his own side. Yes, we failed because we did not cooperate. We have the wealth of the world; we produce it; let us cooperate. Why not keep ii? Do not be sldetracked; you know what unionism means.
 Baptist Sunday School Convention.