The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-12-27
AN APPEAL TO
ALL FARMERS
To Always Stand for Or
ganizatiOn.
THE ONLY WAY TO SUCCEED
What A. S. of E. is Doing in
Making of Prices on Farm
Products.
A SAMPLE TALK TO FAPMERs

To The tarmer;-
Hank. Hear the cry for reapers!
See the ocean of ripe grain ready
for the harvest. Let us rise up and
get to work. DO you see what a
great field is ready for the harvest
ers if we only get the laborers in
the field? There is a vast area
spread before us, reaching from
the Gulf to the Great Lakes and
from ocean to ocean. All of this
vast field is ready for the harvest,
so let's place the laborers in the
field, especially in one small spot.
Let that spot be Ohio county, Ky.
Can't you see what a great work
can be done for the one great or
ganization-the A. S. of Eff we
only get to work and strike while
the iron is hot? Yet so many sit
idly by and do nothing. ! wonder
what las become Of our correspond
ing committee? Not ? single one
has been heard from, yet nearly
three months have gone by since
they were appointed. Surely they
have not lost interest and gone back
on thoir best friends.
Surely one can see by now what
has been the making of prices on
tobacco. All see the need of coop
Grafton SO let us get to work and
organize and try 10 the very utmost
to protect our rights and principles
and the welfare of ourselves and
families.
Can you afford to let such a no
bic organization dwindle and die
just for the lack of your pushing
and standing for justice? For the
lack Of the use of your pen and
spending only two or three hours a
week in your local? For the lack
of your speaking a few words to
your reighbor? You know you
cant afford to do that. You don't
aim TO. You know that if your go
ing to your local would cause this
order TO grow and prosper and ac-
complish our purpose, that if your
presence would bring this about,
you would be there every time. Yet
you don't stop and think that you
are the very cause of it not being
strong as it should be, simply by
not attending your meetings and
encouraging others to do the same.
You member who have refused to
keep your dues paid and forsaken
the ranks on account Of the small
amount asked for to pay expenses
ask you to stop and think how
much good the little mite has done,
then think how much the trusts
have taken from you and your fam
lily; think how they have caused
your wife to work for some of the
millionaires' wives. Think of these
things. consider them well and
am sure you will repent and return
with renewed courage ana make
better soldier than ever. We will
fight the battle and win the victory.
To the man that has never en-
listed, would ask the reason why,
but we know full well when we see
you tremble and get uneasy when
you think our pools have failed. We
have seen you quake for fear, more
than once. At those times you are
almost persuaded to enlist, but for
little selfish greed you will not.
You know you would not have this
movement to fall through for any
thing under reason, yet you don't
seem to have nerve and backbone
enough to step up and enlist, to
fight the battle of justice. You had
loR.har stand back and watch others
fighting and you reap the
financially, but spiritually
onorably you get no reward.
Fdon't you launch out on lifes
Hgws and help the world instead
DBself alone? Would you not rath-
er be n strong link in the backbone
of the world instead of a parasite
to weake one of the strong links?
1t is time we as farmers were
thinking and thinking seriously. It
is time we were reading. 1t is high
time We were acting and with
vim. II is time we were attending
to our own business as other men
do. II is time we were acting &C.
cordinS to our honest convictions.
Others see our faults and strike at
the weak places, so let's make the |
weak places strong. Other bust
ness m IN call us fools and all kinds
Of hard names because of our fail
lre to grasp what is ours.
viii just give. little speech
which fits us farmers. It was a
yast audience of farmera and Ia