Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-03-27


mate that cost; yet that is easily done,
and the general tendency Is ia keep
1t as low as possible. sals5aS g.
(c) The price received donates
marketing. Undoubtedly that Is where
we fail. Nothing should divert our
attention from this point: 4 the one
essential element neglected Ito this
day. The sale of our crops should
be done judiciously! The present, ad-
verse and intolerable influences that
impair our marketing must be re-
remedied! And we can perfect that
part Of our business if we. set our
minds to. do it, and go at it right!
Farming and the necessary account
keeping belong to the domain of in
| dividual action, and can we'll be done
when each acts for himself. But not
so with marketing. We, as individuals,
have no say, nor show on the market.
Wealth of wheat flax, oats,s hay,
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, all proclaim
| and intensifies the same sad fact: We
can not name our price and get it;
we will never come to the possession
j of our own until we centralize our
strength and intelligence to press our
claim. Then we will succeed. False
cooperative action of the producers
is the only way to bring about profit
! able marketing. Cooperation Is the
need and duty Of our times.
Toilers Of the soil, let us unite in
mighty band and make our business
pay! For our sake, for the sake of
our wives and children, our country
and towns, state and nation, for sup
! port, protection and defense, we must
unite! We must save the people one
and all from ruinous trade; do away
with wrong and oppression. Remem-
/ Der the words of President Roosevelt:
Reorganization is no less necessary for
the farmer than all other classes of
people"
1t Is not reasonable for the balance
of the world to expect the farmers to
feed them at an unproftably low price!
! 1t is not fair! Are we going to do
1t any longer? We have borne lower
ing price too long. We must work out
now our independence; free ourselves
! from the harness of our price; hasten
the greatly needed establishment of a
systematic method of disposing of the
farm products at a profit. Co-opera-
ton, organization is our only course.
! Through it, will secure equity, JUS
tice and plenty for us and for all. The
world will pay the price, for 1t cries
for bread, three times day, and three
hundred and sixty-five times a year;
and they can afford to pay for it.
But is bread going to be dearer?
Not necessarily, when our energies
are devoted to abundant production,
minimum prices, maximum market,
and the abolition of gambling and spec
lating In the necessities Of life. L.
rorance and inaction may be enslaved,
but educated, organized, active wis
dem will hold its own. The earth
affords an abundance, of which we
must have our share, and we have it
every year in the fine products we ex-
tract from 1t. But today we are cheat
ed out OF large part of 1t in the ex-
change Not by the consumers, but
by the gamblers of the board of trade
and the like! There Is the cause
OF our troubles! There, the enemies.
combined to defeat us and deny US
the square deal! We feed and clothe
the world; the world allows our claim.
and stand ready to pay the cost. but
not these men. What shall our or
ganizat!on do with them? Simply liz.
more them; they will take care of
themselves. To avoid their crooked
game, we must 60 ahead and graphic
with the difficulties In the way. re.
claiming that misplaced, misentrusted
part of our business, and set it Alright.
NO more products jumped into the
hands of speculation, no more controll,
ed by spectators. That monopoly, W., w,
must abolish, and help build up the
Farmers Combination,-the gigantic
pan-agro-poly, let me call tt-nows: il; ii
the stage of formation under the name me
of 1.-THE American Society Of Eqluityy,
OF North America" We must orr iIIir
fselves store, pledge, pool, finance, con con:
ttrol and sell the fruits of our ton.
The saving we will accomplish, win
make higher prices possible, without
making bread dearer. Oh! What =
great future awaits the farm: the
farmers, the farmers wives, the manly
farmer lads and the farmer maidens
fair! .45<s@v IN md
| We believe In capital, and its honest
combination; combinations to lessen
the cost of nroduction and ;,aoSaa,,