The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
UNIONISM THE TRUE REMEDY
Farmers Union of America Greatest Organization of It's Kind on
 American Continent.

A bill was introduced last winter by MT. McCumber into the United States senate to establish national com mission to devise ways and means for the cooperation of American farmers. The commission was to consist of one member each from the Associa- tion of Agriculture, the National Grange, the American Breeders as sociation, besides one man appointed especially by the president The idea is said to be based upon the fact that business men have their cooperative associations, the different tradesmen have their unions, but the farmer is the only man who works single-hand- ed and often in opposition to him. self"
 The above is a quotation from an exchange, ard evidently the paper was sincere in it's belief that it was a good thing and that the National Farmers congress was the only real farmers organization except the Grange that was worthy of mention, says National Co-Operator. It is not astonishing that the members of the United States senate don't know any thing about the Farmers union, for belonging to the profession they do they are never supposed to know any thing about anything except it is brought to their attention directly in the shape of bill by client of one of the profession, if not their own. The ordinary run of farmers are an unknown quantity to our national leg islators, as rule, and also to the big newspapers, and, although astonish- ing, their ignorance is sublime as to what is going on among the common people of this land of liberty.
 The Farmers union of America is the greatest farmers organization that has ever existed on the Ameri- can continent and is far and away the best educated and most intelligent organization of the kind among the organizations of America. Its founda- tion principles are organization, ed ucation and cooperation, and as it is lived through six or more years of it's history with a constant and continu- ous growth, and with a determination to continue it's course of education and cooperation against all difficulties, it is the densest confession of ignorance on the part of any men who call them- selves representatives in the Ameri- can congress and the metropolitan press to confess in type that they have no knowledge of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative union of it's work and strength.
 Did you ever see a wild turkey in trap? Well, these distinguished gen tlemen, representative of the two classes in the nation that should be in the lead of every class in direct and certain information as to facts concerning their constituencies, know nothing of the way the people are work ing to relieve themselves of the troubles that have been theirs since the time that these gentlemen started from among them to enter the trap of off, cial life, which they had baited with promises, to the people, but once in- side they got naughty and held their heads so high that they could not see the entrance baited still with the con- mon peoples interests. One thing, however, the farmers are taking things in hand and these same men will find that the way to get turkey out of trap is to knock him down and then drag him through the top of the pen.
 Yes, the Farmers union is educating and cooperating and will continue to do so until they have dragged their unfaithful turkeys out of the public office pen and sent them back to where they started to learn true CO., operation with the people and to think of what might have been.