Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-28


It, and which, II enforced as construed
by our highest court, will prevent any
destructive work through any comb
nation of interests.
Let us see how the annual output
Of your business compares with the
out put of other industries:
The total business of the steel In
dustry of the United States last year,
factory value, amounted to $50 mill.
lon dollars; OF oil 175 million dollars:
OF lumber 1900 million dollars; OF
sugar $50 million dollars: OF tobacco
IT'S million dollars; total Of 2450
million dollars, while the farm value
Of agriculture alone the same year
amounted to nine billion dollars. Nine
billion dollars Is big lot of money.
II is the one great item Of our national
resources. In connection with this
great wealth producing business, 1t is
certainly conservative. figured from
any standpoint, to say that on the nine
billion dollar farm value crop the prod
ucers should receive two billion dol
lars more money than they are now
receiving. These two billion dollars
saved would mean to the farmers q
/ billion dollar saving on nine-bill.
ion-dollar CROP When We discuss fig
! ures so large they become mystifying
/ The two billion dollars we could save
by system of going more direct from
the farm to the consumer nearly
equals the factory value of all steel,
, lumber, oil, sugar and tobacco sold in
the United States last year. 1t Is more
than the combined revenues Of France,
Italy and Germany. 1t is more than
double the yearly cost OF running our
own government. 1t means to the
farmers more than two dollars for ev-
cry minute that has passed since the
I birth of Christ.
4 These strong so-called trust organi
cations have taught us lesson Of dis
I tribution. They have shown us that
one executive head can direct the dis
tribution Of a commodity where under
old methods 1t required hundreds of
men. Twenty years have changed our
entire system of distribution through
organized business combinations, ex-
cept farm products which are not han
died under organization until after
they are sold by the producers.
al dlt btSinuiH6 W apply tnt
methods of successful business insti-
tutions in the distribution of their
products. Some of these young organ
izations are small and some are large,
but they are all struggling to CONNER
cialize the handling of their products.
| Within few years we will have big
results from organized farm market
ing, and our farm products will be
sold and distributed under the same
general combination of interests as
other large businesses of the country
are now handled.
The farmers are vitality Interested
interested in general prosperity. They
are interested in development and con-
structive legislation. II is to the ad-
vantage of the 30,000,000 people en-
gagged in supplying soil products to
feed the 60,000,000 engaged in other
business to have these consumers able
to feed themselves and families with
three charity meals a day. The prod
ucers want them to take big market
baskets to the market places and carry
them away full The producers want
the thrifty housewives to be able to
inquire at their market places what
fresh vegetables, meats and breads
they will have next day so that they
can prepare wholesome and bountiful
meals for happy, prosperous families.
This Is the way to build up strong,
resolute, red-blooded Americans, and
not through the political clap-trap of
the ambitious. selfish politicians who
are preaching new theories Of govern
ment without a thought on construc-
tive legislation. Getting back to my
subject: Consider the difference to
your business in feeding the balance
of the world as to whether the hungry
woman goes TO market and must econ
omize by buying half what she would
like to have and that of the cheapest
overkept vegetables, or whether she
buys bountifully of the fresh and most
wholesome food which you produce.
You are therefore just as much inter-
ested in well filed market baskets as
the manufacturer is in having a strong
man to fill each place on full time in
his shop. II railroad train is aban-
doned, II means less coal for the rail
road buy, and it also means less sale
of coal by the producer. The same
principle applies to farming.
Formerly conservation, as we under
stood the term, applied only to the nat
ural conservation OF coal, timber, wa
ter power and other resources, but it
now extends to nations-their strength,
power and health-and to industrial
and commercial opportunities. Con-
servation of the agricultural waste be-
tween the grower and the kitchen Is
of greater Importance than any other,
and is the one most neglected. All
farmers are interested in the two bill
ion dollars of annual waste which can
be turned into farm dividends.
It is not my purpose to discuss
Texas political matters, but the rail-
roads of Texas are the servants of the
people, and feel justified in referring
to one matter. The railroads are OPP
Grated under rules and regulations
fixed by the railroad commission of
Texas in the interest of the public.
Every economic waste that can be
cut out means step in the direction
of better service and lower cost of
transportation.
Last season the railroad commission
of Texas reduced the rate on cotton
equal to $750,000 on the three million
bale crop. If the railroads had in
creased their rates to that amount,
there would have been feeling that
such an advance was unfair to the
shippers. Since this reduction IN
freight rates of % cents bale, the
advanced report of railroad operation