The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-15
NOT BORN TO DIE.

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The CoOperatOr does not believe
that this great organization was born
TO die. Other organizations have been
only the sk.rmishes, looking to the
great, the decisive battle.
That great battle Is nov on. We
| nave learned that the producers can.
not change the system by a political
route. The fact IS. no organization
Tor producers can long exist unless it
steer entirely clear OF politics. Hav.
ing learned these facts, this organl.
ZatiOn is going to turn the deaf ear
to the politician Who would use Il
Tor his own selfish purposes, and thus
destroy it. We hive learned Tat II
IL an industrial movement, and that
we must change the system of mar.
keting by building a system OF our
own. This system Is for the purpose
Of securing inst and equitable prices
for orr produce. We have learned that
the law Of Supply and demand" Is all
right, II we will make the supply and
the demand equal at all times. We
have learned that we must not dump
our produce on the market In two or
three months in the year. We have
learned that we must build ware.
houses and grain elevators in order
to be able to hold our products. and
not be forced to dump them on the
market.
knowing these facts, we are setting
about to bull 4 the system which Is to
make us inlujtrially free We are co.
Ing to change the system Of market.
Ing entirely Our cotton is not to
(e sold on tie streets any more to
the highest bidder It is to be put in.
to our own warehouses, sampled and
weighed by our own warehouse-kespef.-
When once placed into the warehouses
it Is too be sold under ID certain
fixed price set Ivy the National ,FaTm-r
ers' Unlc0 in its annual meetings. AL ),
ready we have build hpnhieas of WARE
houses, and thousands viii be butt
this year, When these, wa rebeusss ares'
built at al. tho4market towns. and tie
cotton farmers marker their T6rt0n
through them only the battle will be
"oh. nail ,TOnil,
The minimum price. correct and !
Just price, car be maintained all the !
time, regardless Of any and all inHu.
ences which can; be brought to- bear. !
We have learned that the producer ID |
the real bear on the market: that he |
must haye an. understanding, or oels4sf
he must always remain a bear. All
this we know and we are now going
to build the system which Is to make |
us mdustrially free.INatfonai Co70R /
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b5fhere isprobabty no more delicate
task set before an official than that =
of assessing property lfpB,tstes 1.-The |.
yeIgnfaft Gifts difficulty has been the :
mH}ee39gp s p6fssEmnphasisngs the very point
Of trouble, that p. arriving at eduit, !
able and even: assessments, =, Assess
6rs seem to have come to the cons
clusion that there Is no such thing asa
getting at the real facts ii the case,
and so have dropped into the habit
of making a pass at the JOB and f"let.
ting it go at that" 1t does seem that
the lawmakers OF the country: cofldc1l
study all the plans that have b6en
tried, and out OF, them all arriFel atiIe
like a satisfactory plati afo
getting a reasonable, just method dot
assessment. AS 1t is, the man who /
has only small home, Is generaHy 7
taxed at about all he can stand, I'D Y
the man who. could afford to pay a I
good price for the protection given
him by the, government escapes only T
partly assessed. This Is a mighty .
good thing for a Union man to look
into. aH0bf tsEG9 llu;l