The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-01-27

duct than ever before, through she
efforts this society has led them 20
make in their own behalf. The bean
producers OF Michigan. put upon evesy
threashing machine this year a large
placard announcing two dollars per bu
shell as the farmers price for beans.
and every farmer received this instead
OF one dollar per bushel. the former
price.
Now farmers, II we could accomplis
these great results with only a
small start. what win we not do whe
the American Society Of Equity has
one million live loyal members
Let 1t be distinctly understood by
the public that in this movement the
farmer IS reasonable and conservative
in his demands. He in only asking
for q profitable price for every pro
duct and every crop. mean a price
that viii cover the failures and partta
failures, pay interest on the billions
Of dollars invested, pay all expenses,
pay the farmer and his family for their
labor enable Us TO put back the fer
fifty Of the soil as fast as we remove
II, and give us our legitimate profit on
business. The farmer is asking for
q profit on his business above ell ex-
pense, risk loss and labor just as well
IS the business man, and do not be-
heve the business world will deny the
farmer this right.
The greatest difficulty with which
have had to contend as q farmer,
has been the fact that every time
succeeded IN producing q good crop
found In the leading markets Of this
country an organized force Of buyers,
who held the price down too low upon
me. mot because we had over produced
not because there was not a market
for every bushel Of grain. every fat
hog. every can OF milk, every ton OF
hay every pound OF tobacco. but sim
ply because the buyers were organ
lied and stood together for low price
while the farmers the sellers were not
organized. The first thing the Tobacco
Trust did after organizing was to
gradually reduce your price on tooac-
Co until they had you down to a bare
existing price The Beef trust stands
between the farmers, the producers,
and their markets the consumers and
robs both classes. There are about
four men, who own the packing plant
IN Chicago, those they do not own
they control. This is not only true in
Chicago. it is true IN St. Louis, Kan
sas City, s. Joseph, Omaha Sioux City
Sioux Falls and all the packing ceDters
Of this country. II this gigantic COM
through their organized force.
presses, the price on the fifty million
fat hogs Of our country 20 tie ex-
tent OF only two dollars on Zach hog,
It means a robbery Of the farmers to
the extent Of one hundred million dol.
lars each year. Under the old dump
+ g system, the grain men lost thirty
cents per bushel, or the enormous
amount Of two hundred million dol
lars annually by not having an educa-
tional cooperative union, which would
lead them TO market intelngently &C
oording TO business methods. Ny
brother farmers, is it not time that
every farmer should be willing to put
ten dollars per year into an educa-
tional society, that will lead US TO
stop the insane policy heretofore fol-
lowed by which We have Piled up mil
lions and billions in the hands Of a
few desi gning men. viii 1t not pay
US to put a few dollars each year
into an organization and quit piling
up millions in the hands Of the trust?
It has come to be with the mar
ket 50 fully controlled by the few des-
igning SPECTATORS and trusts that the
larger our crops are, TIE less money
you get The more bushels you raise
the less dollars you get The grain
men OF the United States In 1906, pro
duced one hundred and twenty million
bushels more grain than they did in
1905. But sold it for forty million
dollars less. It is certainly evident
70 every intelligent man that there