The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-01-22
SATURDAY A GREAT DAY FOR
FRIENDSOF EQUITY IN OHIO COUNTY.

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Mobile, Charleston and other great
cotton ceMGers and received their great
crops off 6heir bands at low un-
Just price in many cases. But since
these cotton farmers have begun so
organize and meet together dn tnedr
home towns, County. Suate and Ma
tional meetings and to discuss intel-
gent and oontroled marketing they
are beginning 40 find a better way on
selling their great and valuable crop.
saw a gentleman in sOu.aeen MIS-
souri, in April 1908, wto told me
that he put a fine crop of c1t.on on
the market oae year and received on
ly four and one-nsdf cents per pound
for me best grade. But sinCe tlJe
col5Jon men have organized, ne knows
as re plants lis cotton, and cusCi-
Yates IL, that his price viii not be
less THAN nine cents, from the fact
tbnt more than a million cotton rails
ers in DE souUh are standing with
him for lle price. | am glad 10 leern
that the Kentucky farmers Through on
ly a partial Organization, nave raised
the average price OF tobacco from
$2.S5 per aundred TO IS. Tae Equity
Society, though only parsly organized
in the wheat states has spread tue
idea so widely among tne Dnmeres
that every wheat raiser knows ce
can get one dollar 2 bushel for fts
wheat before GnA next crop is raised.
The potato men Of Wisconsin are re-
ceiving a better price for their pro-
duct chan ever before, through tie
efforts this society has led them TO
make in their own behalf. The bean
producers of Michigsn. put upon every
tbreashing machine btis year a large
placard announcing Two dollars per bu
shel as the farmers price for beans,
and every farmer received this instead
Of one dollar Ter bushel' the former
price.
Now farmers, If we could accomplis
these great results wiki only a
small start, what will We not do VIII n
TIE American Society of Equity has
one million live loyal members.
Let it be distinctly understood by
the public that in this movement the
farmer is reasonable and conservative
in his demands. He in only asking
for a profitable price for every pro-
duct and every crop. ! mean price
that will cover the failures and partia
failures, pay iuteqesE on the billions
of dollars invested, pay all expenses,
pay the farmer and his family for their
labor eneb,e us to put back dine fer
tiIdy of ire soil as fast rs weremove
it, and give us our legitimate profit on
business. The farmer is asking for
a profit on mis- business above all ex-
pense, risk loss and labor just as well
as the business man, and do mot be-
fieve tLe business world will deny tue
farmer This right.
The greatest difficulty with which
/ have lad 10 contend as farmer,
i has been the fact that every time |
succeeded in producing a good crop
| found IN the leading markets of this
country an organized force OF buyers,
who held the price down too low upon
me, not because we had over produced
not because where was not a market
for every bushel OF gVain, every taG
hog. every can of milk, every ton of
hay every pound of tobacco, bur SIM
ply because Ohe buyers were organ
lied and stood together Tor low price
wld e the farmers The sellers were not
organized. The first thing The Tobacco
Trust did after organizing Was 20
gradually reduce your pflce on tobec-
co, until they had you down to a bare
existing price. Tie Beef trust sands
between the farmers, the producers,
and their markets the consumers and
robs both classes. There are about
four men, VINO own the packing plans
in Chicago, those they do not own
they control. This is not only true in
Chicago it is true in 81. Louis, Kan
sas City, st. Joseph, om&ha Sioux City
Sioux Fails and all tine packing centers
of this country. If this gigantic COM
bination ni1rough their organized force
presses, the price ON the fifty million
fat hogs OF our country to tine ex-
tent OF only two dollars on each hog,
It means robbery of the faruiers TO
the extent of one hundred million dol
lars each year. Under the old dump
Ing system, the grain men lost tGldrty
cents per bushel, or the enormous
|, amount of two hundred million dol
lars annually by not having an educa-
tional co-operatdve union, which would
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