The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-08
Farmers Educational
AND
Cooperative Union
Of America
Get into the Game.

play dDUul do LiuNh IVA
the excitement of the game as for the
winnings Even good men like TO
put up a quarter or half a dollar on a
game or horse race Just to make 1t
more interesting" We are all gam
blers. Life is a game of chance ana
skill combined. We are either win
ming or losing stake. Some put up
moey (speculatOrs), some put up am
bition (politicians), some put up their
time and energy along wiah financial
outlay farmers). They all. take
chances on winning or losing. The
speculator must play the game as
stock gamblers play it. The polltl-
! clan must play the game as polltl-
clans play it. The sports must be |
sporty" or get out OF the game. Ihe
| farmer must stake his all on the |
weather and insects and all that
makes farming 4 chance, and play
the game as the best farmers play 1t.
Every business man takes his chances
in competition with others in the same
line. Farmers, see here, you are 100
absorbed in playing your own game
to watch the others play theirs, but
you are contributing to the Jackpot
IN many another game and have no
hand in the game that settles who IS
to pocket the winnings. Directly the
situation is thus: You raise the grain
and stock, the tobacco. cotton and
wool for the other fellow to gamble
over in boards of trade. they take
your stuff at what figure they please
and play with it as a cat plays with
mouse. You have some needs tnaI
cannot be homegrown or homemade.
Nearly every one of these is controlled
by trust and you pay what they
please to charge. You all know this.
So you are demanding a remedy. Dr.
ferent societies of farmers are seek
ing to remedy the marketing end. Co.
operation is the key. Why do you
pay more than things are worth! BE-
cause the other fellows are bound TO-
gether into associations that protect
| the trade. Why can't you sell at a
II profit too? Because you are not
II bound together. Follow natural laws
II Backfre as when a prairie fire OF
II forest fire is sweeping down On you
II Fight f"e with fire. Fight organiza
II ton with organization. Let producer
II and consumers get closer together.
II is the middlemen that are the ke
II to the problem. When they quit figh'
II ing each other they have the sltus
II ton cinched. You need coal. YOU
IL local dealers belong to the coal dea
HI ers' association. He is slave OF III
Il coal trust, hence you pay 81 to 81 pc
II ton more than coal is worth. ~
IN operate You need dry goods, shoe
M etc. Your local dealer belongs to u
WI mercantile association, hence ye
III nav from 90 to 200 per cent more tns
~ goods are worth Cooperate. .1'
need hardware, buggies, wagons, farl
I'M ing tools. Your local dealer is IN u
for merchantile association, hence you p
form 10 to so per cent more than hal
o'o ware is worth. Cooperate. I
need flour, meat, lard, sugar, cofff
etc. Your dealer is in the groce
association, hence you pay from lo
IRE 40 per cent more than they are Wof
Cooperate"
cine "Well," says one, cts easy to
rcn that local dealers are robDlng a
N getting more than goods are Woi
nv Int the whole shebang is operated
and ono trust and we can't get them IT
anyone not in the trust" Yes,
ahsr can, There is an independent dea
Nv for all your needs. Hunt them
ther 70 Won approach one Of these ~
not helm yourselves" fellows, say 10
was am making up carload OF c
r,,o feedstuff, -four, salt, or CARLOAD
Ohio. conee, Darlei VI '"e" 90
-,,. ran save you on coal 81 to 81
TON or Is cents per 100 pounds
- feedstuff, 50 cents per 100 in II
Z@ 60 cents per barrel on salt, ~ G.
1t'sM | per gallon Ou oyA oP' .,
ID 7 am "afraid" it is not good.
tell him that it is guaranteed oy
manufacturer to you and ne Will
eyes. Mr.. Jones Qocal dealer) qua
h tees his stuff and havnt got
money now." Then tell him IL
Il not take any money until the g
"A arrive and he will say, Il guess
~ not order any today l do not
" apv lust now. bought some ye
day etc. There is no competltie
local dealers associations and
game is winning game. Let u
into the game of fighting "hre
fire" and it will revive the old
competition is the life OF u
Get into the game and co-opera.'
the mortage will be sure tnl
the past in an alarmingly short
Get into the game and win
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