The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-06-10
SUCCESS OF FARMERS UNION
President Barrett at ST. Louis conVen-
ton Tells Of Big Increase In
Membership.

Our principles and or way OF ap-
plying them must be sound, for we
have Increased from less than fifty
thousand membership six years ago to
membership today rising three mil.
lion. Throughout the southern states
We are well organized. In the middle
wast we are formally organized and
oar members are rapidly growing. This
year We have perfected organization
in several of the western and Pacific
Slope states. and we shall soon invade
New England
In the south. we have succeeded in
obtaining for the farmer a reasonable
price for his backbone staple, cotton.
That means, We have ministered in
every phase ef southern commerce,
that We have laid every southerner
under obligations to Us, for cotton IS
the financial barometer Of the south
ern states. In the middle west We are
recording Roadway IN handling, in
scientific and equitable manner. wheat
and corn. In the far west We are &C
complshing results In the systemati-
zing of the fruit industry and OF gen.
eral agricultural products.
The financial success OF our pro-
gram Is important, but 1t is exceeded
By cur moral and intellectual progress
and evolution. which Is reflected in tn
forward status of the American farmer
generally. for hold that organization
among the farmers has inevitably
benefited every tiller OF the soil in this
country. whether or not he is directly
affiliated with the organization.
Through our national, state and To-
cal organizations we have been per.
sistently preaching scientific agrieul-
ture. diversified agriculture, conserva-
ton OF soil resources, rotation Of
crops.
We have encouraged IN every state
more liberal measures for popular
education. insisting that the fathers
and mothers Of farm children should
make every sacrifice that their sons
and daughters might be better equip
ped for the word-fray than they were
themselves.
One of our most signal triumphs.
and tremendously significant one, is
our success in teaching interdepend-
ence, in illustrating and persuading
into being the vitalizing forces of CO.
operation. By nature the most inde-
pendent Of individuals, holding him
self aloot from his fellows, in love
with his own opinion. jealous of undis-
pated command Of his acres and re-
senting intrusion of new ard strange
ideas he is gradually learning the value
Of abating these qualities in favor OF
cooperation.
He IS seeing that to the end of IN
PRODUCING business means Of market
ing his crop. Of filling his soil and OF
reaping the benefits of civilization, he
must cQpcede little OF that old, stub
born Independence, just as his neigh
Gor conceded little OF his independ.
ence.
He Is learning that united effort Is
inyincibIe, while individual effort not
only fails Invariably TO aid the indi.
YidHaI bat that it may we'll work to
the prejudice Of the interest OF the
masses.
Our warehouse system IN the south
our warehouse and cooperative bust.
ness enterprises throughout the mid
die and far west, are reyolutionizing
The viewpoint CT the farmer, We have
proceeded on the theory that farming
Vas as exact profession as the law,
medicine or barter and trade, and that