Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-20

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ever be yours to enjoy the highest
ideals of citizenship, as the creator
of all good has intended that you
should. then the most loyal and most
patriotic and answering men would
be chosen to iii the various positions
Of trust. 1t Is evident that many
who pose as friends to the people are
their most deadly enemies. 1t is
plain for short time an open enemy
will have to be met, but time will
soon reveal the fact that our worst
enemy turks in secret conclave and
will pose as our friend and ever con
ceivable means will be brought to
bear upon your officials to misguide
and dethrone them IN their efforts to
carry our Order to success.
The utter absence of political dis
cussion in our Order is one Of the
hopeful signs of unquestionablo sue
cess, and | would warn our people to
forever abstain from party politics
aud cooperative stores as the most
dangerous venture that could be
made by our Order. Our experience
of more than thirty years along these
lines has taught those capable of
clear business understanding the follv
of such indulgenees.
The committee on Resolutions will
be called upon to express our views
upon economic questions, which en-
ter into our industrial life, Nowhere
is there discord in our ranks. Every
where the utmost enthusiasm and de-
termination abounds,
The producer can never hope, ex-
cept by Organization and Co-opera-
ton, to withstand the constant en-
croachments of predatory wealth.
The master of commerce with oue
hand lowering the prices of raw ma
terial and with the other elevating
the prices of the finished product,
which we all must have, must be
made to pause.
We must continue 10 be right, We
must ever be fair, We must be honest
with ourselves and our neighbors,
and if we do this, and are determined
and courageous In our defense OF che
principles of our Order, success IN
the fullest measure will be ours.
In the matter of a constitution, |
bespesk on the behalf of your con-
stitutional committee, a most careful
consideration. have been the OBJ
ject Of your committe on constitution
to make it free from ambiguous terms
and let Its provision be such that
every thoughtful and loyol member
can couscientiously endorse and vIg-
orously defend them.
In surrendering to you my official
right as State Organizer Of your
state, feel that could not do 80
Sithout gcknoW lodging the patriot
ism aud answering loyalty Of the |
noble men and women of the grand !
old STATE of Kentucky who have ,tooi /
so nobly by me in effort 20 promote +
our noble cause. which has been so
successfully accomplished. with
more than eight thousand members
DOW 10 Your state and more than Two /
million in the nation, Kentucky co1-
-utuun, the Fifteenth Organized .
State Union, and a national growth
Of six thousand members per day,
there eau be no possibility Of failure |
with constant and increasing !
campaign Of education going on IA
our Order.
And as give the control Of the
affairs Of our Order into your hands,
| do not only do so by constitutional
right, but because it is right. And
whether | shall live in your state or
return to my home and friends 10
Texas, | shall never forget the loyal
ty and personal aid Of my many
friends who have stood so nobly by
me in the promotion of our great
Order,
now submit the business of our
Order into your hands with an abid-
| INC confidence that Won will ever hold