The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-04
Y0AKUM
TALKED OF
PROFITS
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SAYS THE MIDDLEMf N
GETS TOO BIG
A SHARE
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RAILRUAUS MSU SUtfth
BECAUSE OF uAFARIhESS
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Head Of The Frisco Shows He
Is In Touch with Conditions
Throughout Country
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(By Associated presg)


st. Louis, Mo- May l-ENceaelye
profit taking BIZ nhldIemeB was the
reason assigned for high prices ot
food.stufs By B. r Yoaklm. chairman
Of the Frisco system, IN an address
which he made late yesterday after.
noon before the National Convention
of the Farmers Educational and Coz
Operative union, now iu conference
In this city He declared that the
heavy reductions in freight rates vi
the past few years had BEEN absorbed
by the dealers and not shared in by
the farmers or consumers.
Better marketing methods were adj
vanced as o means by which farm
ers would get better prices for the
food they raise aud at the same time
lower figures would be given TO those
who buy the stuff for use in the kitch-
en-. This railroad man described the
demagogic politician as distributing
and expensive middle agent ana urs
ed that he be cut out in the dealings
which the railroads and the farmers
should have with each other,
THE most important force for the
welfare of the nation will come when
the land owners OF America are or
ganized." said Mr.. Yoakum. "This
organization is important not only ter
the benefits which will come TO the
farmers but on account Of money
which will be saved by the consum-
ers. 1t is not prices received by farm
ers which make living expenses high,
but the profits Of the dealers handling
the foods between the farmer and
consumer.
THE Florida farmer receives S2.25
for a bushel of green beans, the rail-
road gets 80 cents for the 500 mile
haul to New York and the consumers
pay s6.40 for this same bushel oil
beans. There is 35 per cent for the
grower, s per cent for the carrier aud
81 per cent for the dealer. This is
not fair division.
Thirty cents a dozen was the aver
age price OF eggs in New York last
year, while the farmers of Arkansas
and Missouri received IL cents The
freight was cents a dozen. The men
who receive the eggs at a freight sta
tion in New York and deliver them 70
the consumer took 13 cents a dozen
profit.
"The rice farmer of Texas, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas gets two and one
half cents pound for the grain and
the consumer In New York pays ten
cents pound for this rice. The
freight Is one-half cent a pound II
the rice farmer were paid3 and one
half cents Zone cent more than lie is
now getting and the dealer took one
cent profit (which is 20 per cent?, the
New York consumer would get 20
pounds of rice for a dollar, Instead Of
10 pounds as now.
Every member of every comnun-
fly Is Interested in aiding the farm
ers to organize a system OF doing
business direct from the field to the
table. Effective organization cannot
be had by creating prejudice through
politicians who have no relief 10 OIL
fer. The cotton growers are not or
ganized and they are losing money
today The railroad takes $500 l0r
hauling a bale of cotton from gin 30
spinner, Dul the optNhldiui must nav
$3.50 per bale. The time will come
when states will construct ware
houses TO aid farmers in marketing
their cotton. understand that LOUIS
lana Is to be the first state to takr
this Important step Under this pro
posed Louisiana warehouse systam
every farmer, individually or through
bis organization can ship his cotton
TO New Orleans and hold il until he
Is ready to sell. His warehouse To-
ceipt is better III the hands Of New
England or Manchester spinner than
the contract OF speculator TO de-
liver the cotton"