The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-01
PUT BUSINESS MEN AT THE HEAD:

number of Farmers Union Ware house boards have gotten them selves into. There seems to be a determination on the part of some to put themselves in the forum, whether 1t is the best policy to do so or not. In four or five different cases recently, we have been appealed to and asked what to do where the Board of Warehouse Directors have gotten themselves cross ways in business affairs. Our answer to these questions have been, PUT BUSINESS MEN AT THE HEAD OF YOUR REHO U SEE MANAGE MENT, is the only salvation or the only remedy or method that will bring success. A man who does not know how to sample and grade cotton and is i'll other ways unqualified to handle in a business way the cotton of the Farmers Union, is the worst drawback to the Farmers Union business and we want to say right here, that when a Farmers Union Warehouse board elects business manager, because of some special pet scheme or sell fish motive, when said manager is not fully qualified, and they know it they have done the Farmers Union an injustice, and such will ruin the business pros poets of any warehouse. This question is one of vital impor- tance, especially at this time, as the officials of the Arkansas Un- ion are bending every energy in business way to perfect the method of handling cotton, through the cotton committees direction, which is sustained by the Arkansas Farmers Union Warehouse Association, and If each warehouse management will put in charge of its affairs business man, who is capable of grading and classifying cotton, and who possesses business ability enough to follow the plans and instructions of the assocla- tion, success will crown the efforts of the undertaking, and it is our advice to each warehouse district to see to it that such men are put in charge of the warehouses. There Is no use paying out money for warehouse managers who cannot do the business required of them. It Is suicide to the business and ruin ation to the Farmers Union to undertake 1t; and 1t is burden to the committee and warehouse association to impose upon them an unqualified man in the man. agement of the warehouse busi- ness.
 Therefore, we write this ar tiCle in answer to a dozen ln- quiries relative to this one ques- ton, and say most emphatically that if your warehouse directors have elected and put in charge an unqualified man, it is the un- qualified duty of the stock hold CTS to demand of them his resig- nation and a good man to be put in his place. The cotton ques- ton is to important at this time, and the warehouse question a necessity that compels us to say, away with personal sentiment, and a manly stand for principle and business, irrespective of whom it hits. We would not hire man and pay him carpen- ter's wages, who knew nothing about carpenters work. Neither would we put..a man to blow who couldn't blow, and the same principle is involved in ware house management. A man who has no knowledge, except a conceived one in the handling of cotton has no more business with the warehouse manage ment than a mountain goat has with an almanac. Qualification and integrity, as a Union man, arethe all important things tOCOn-