Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-24

fed every day YOU hold, the buyers
viii be on the short side of TIE
market all the time. and they will
hunt you up and gladly pay the
profitable price.
There are other factors that Will
be sweating the oil mills, and
Commercialized cotton gins, factories,
compress companies. and a thousand
other concerns wE0Se activity de-
nends on the raw materials OF the
farm. ! am telling you the truth
and you know il, and so do the fol-
lows Who have been SHINING YOU.
This plan will put the crop liar
out of business.
Farmers. by this plan you can put
the commercial world in a compress
and squeeze the wind and water
out OF the whole push" and they
will learn for all time TO recognize
your power. The bulls" and bears
on the boards and exchanges could
lush md pull until there was
lothiug eft but their tails. and you
could laugh at their calamity
Farmers, controlled mark ms Is
everyth:r- to you. You have played
the dump act" long enough, aud
that is your trouble. Overproduction
has been dinned into YOUR ears by
the so-called farm journals. BIS
Town Breezes." and the political bed
bugs, until you believe that If you
don't dump the crops the world
won't take them at all. Acting on
such education YOU have glutted and
destroyed the markets. even when
bold men tried 10 hold them up for
you Only last year when the prices
Of cotton began fair. in thirty-five
days from the opening. you delugei
The market with over three and one
half million bales of cotton, and you
made the market sick. and the club
was used 10 batter down the remain
ing crop on the farm. When the
panic came and the decline first
started. had YOU withdrawn from the
market altogether and let demand
catch up, the price would have gone
back and stayed there. but you were
like a gulttonous man who kept over
loading his stomach until he cram
med down four or five times its ca
pacity. and the pains began, a ply
stefan had 70 be called TO unload his
greedy maw-the results were worse
than lad he not eaten at all.
\ normal supply 20 meet a normal
demand viii bring the profitable
price. In other words. il takes Won
rh0Ie year 20 produce a crop: f.
taxes whole year 70 consume a
crop. Then. isn't II the mos sen-
sible thing 10 do. 10 take a whole
year TO market the crop, or AZ least
a reasonable time 10 market Il? But
the Objeetor is always present. and
! find him everywhere one SAYS.
The farmers are too poor 10 control
marketing Ii they are too poor.
when are they going 70 become able
under the dumping" system? The
plan of the Union gives every farmer
a premium Of at least $40 on each
bale of cotton 70 organize and stay
organized and 20 quit the dumping"
business. Show me the farmer. when
he understands the plan, who does
not favor II. and ! will show you
man who needs a guardian appoint
ed
Controlled marketing" is the
only thing the poor farmer can do,
and il is the only thing necessary
10 do, and il is the only plan on
which all the farmers can unite. Con-
cert of action on the part OF the
farmers when the crops are ready
for market is the force that will put
up the price, and keep it up
Put" says another. suppose the
Spectators won't buy?" Good. We
farmers don't want them 70 buy.
Well, let US suppose that all human
beings and domestic animals should
dispense with food and clothing
how long would they live? No. We
farmers hope 10 stop spectators
from buying and TO own the machine
of marketing, and sell direct 70 the
spinners and mill men.
But suppose saws another.
that they refuse TO pay the reason
able price asked by the farmers"
Then We farmers can strike, and our
strike would have the proper effect
in a very few days. A farmers
strike would mean much more than
strike by union la borers The
farmers are dependent on no other
class, and they can live unto them
selves longer, perhaps than any other
class; but, once gradual marketing
is established, a strike by farmers
will not be necessary.
The most common director SAYS:
The farmers will not stick. Farm
ers are the greatest organizers and
suckers in the world, and they will
slick when there Is something TO
equivalent 70 saving farmers will not