The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-15
Farmers Educationa!
 -AND- Co-Operative Union Of America
Missourians Have to be Shown.

It is said that the people from or il
 Missouri have to be sighted" This
 statement probably is a fact, as they
 usually wait a long while after the
 signal to jump is given before they
 jump.
 l have thought that when the judg
 ment sets, for the purpose of ascer
 taining who is a fit subject for that
 haven of rest for the pure Many ot
 our people will be one or two cars
 behind and will never reach the goa
 of the ambition of the race, after be
 ing in waiting for long while to be sighted.
 We have people who have little or
 no faith in anything. They are sons
 of perdition against their wills They
 have no power to help themselves. It | is disease they have caught while | trying to be the chief architect ot | their own fortunes.
 It is part of my judgment that this life is what we make it. We may be something or nothing. If man is honest he is something of worth, al | though he may not be well off from a financial point of view All people will not be well-to-do It is not their lot.
 This state of the condition of the race at present could be partially over- come in many ways, possibly. No one has any desire to be a pau per or an idiot All want to be well off and wise
 One man may do great things by himself but you generally see several men in the greatest enterprises, which est success.
 The time is here when single-hand- ed work is out of date. One man never thinks of controlling the situa- tion by his efforts alone. He is ac- eepting the plans of the system. He comes into the Union or agreement.
 This is an axiom OF selt-evident truth. We have too much evidence of union on their part to disbelieve the statement as fact. Railway man. eoNAS' PoOA4N WI h4i4S turers, wholesome jobbers, retail mer- chants, doctors of all kinds, lawyers, village blacksmiths, bankers, coal min CTS, millers, ginners, and other class es are organized to their success.
 If We could realize what these or ganlzat1ons mean to us we would be up and trying to do more than what Is being done by us at present.
 Let us take up the Engineers Union and dwell on it as a point for discus sion. This class of laborers was weak financially in the beginning. What are they now? They are able to contend for their rights and they get them. This has come about through union, and union only. The strife has been on for years. They are now up to the front, They have things their way. As soon as man works him. self up to the position of engineer ne | Is asked to come into the union and he goes, and does we'll when he goes. | He finds himself in a society of broth CTS. They stand together. They find | power in union They see strength in concert of action,e They are sight | ed. Many of our farmer boys are among them and they are sticking. | They see the point They finally be- come sighted. They stay
 To say a farmer will not stick to a good thing is to own up ignorance on tho part of the orator who mar rates such statement.
 They stay with any order of repu- tation as long as any class of people | whatsoever. The greatest trouble is getting their attention. If one can be induced to think we have him then and there as subject for any good society.
 We do not claim to be a family of great intelligence as a whole, but | We claim to have wisdom in the fam fly. We either have been sighted or are being sighted to the evils done | us. We are about to get the remedy | for our present disease financially. | The day is not far off when we think we will be able to successfully ar rest all attempts to rob us of our | rights as family class of people.
 Our movements may be slow, but we hope sure. Time is required for the accomplishment of many great un- dertakings. Carefulness in all things should be exercised, even if it re- Quires much time
 It has been said that farmers have the least sense of any class of work- men as to their power and ability. Certainly we have been very slow to see and realize the position We are now in, but this very class who have been accusing us of being ignorant think they may finally see our ability to their detriment. They are squirm- ing and twisting with fear. They know the power of the owners of the earth is sufficient to corner any proposi- tion. Their hope is that we will never know our power
 THOUGHTS ON PRoFUNDlTY.