The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-09-10

otherwise, YOU are not partially re-
sponsible for these conditions Have
a heart 10 heart talk with yourself,
and find out If a little encouragement
on your part would not better those
conditions.
~ your officers less and CO
=. more. things would, in all
prob. ke on a vastly different
A. u >-prises.
Enterprises q by our m-m-
bers have develop. past year ~
never in my recollection. There are
more Of them and they are mor.>
sCundly and honestly conducted.
But | want to remind you that il il
one thing TO "resolute". an enterprise
into existence in a hallclu jah meeting
and another to patronize it the year
round after you return home and haH,>
! recovered from your enthusiasm.
| have seen enterprise after enter
prise fail because members forgot the
| promises of support honestly tended
in moments of exuberance. Business
men who succeed do not follow thar
custom. They keep their promises
and you rarely see gathering of bus
| iress men who do not meet calmly
debate calmly, and then afterward
abide by the program they have get
t out.
The trouble is too many Of us -
into conventions full Of good feeling
| wanting to hear a lot of talk pass;
ton of resolutions, and then go home
We fail to remember that the issues
we pass on are serious ones whether
j. is in the marketing Of crops or tn
"swatting'' Of those who have betra ycd
u.s. Until all OF US regard the pledges
made in gatherings as sacred. this or
ganiZation cannot hope to achieve its
greatest usefulness.
Marketing Machinery
have lately had much to say re
garding the need OF more systemat
marketing Of the crops OF the mem
, bers, Of the American farmer gener
, ally.
A large percentage of the low prices
received in the past has been due to
the fact that until lately we marketed
our products. not as business men, bat
! as school boys. We did not study un-
derlying conditions. We still fail here
and there, to realize that a agriculture
, is about the most serious vocation in
. the land, and that it should be taken
as such.
I have. upon several previous occa :
sions dwelt upon the necessity OF
marketing machinery, both central
chinery. We now have that ma
chinery. ramifying throughout tn
cotton belt and making provision also
for products OF the members in other
; sections. 1t is now not only esse ntial
:, but imperative, that this machinery
, be given the solid support and pat
ronage Of the organization. That IS
, all that is needed for the complete
, success Of its operation. We have
been talking all these years about CO
operating to the end Of marketing our
, products in an orderly manner, The
. opportunity is today before us, and ii
. is our duty to those who have labored
: hard in our interests, as we'll as &c
: ourselves to avail ourselves Of it. and
without reservation, when We aXree &c
support such machinery. In this con,
e nection, it is encouraging to note the
: progress OF the National Warehous.
Y company, nationahzed from the Farm
. ers Warehouse company, OF Misss
siDpi. upon the authority Of your las
: convention. The program Of thi
s company indicates what can be &C
t complished. il members put theI
4 strength in behind their enterprise
q when the latter are managed IN
y busineSs-like way.
u In passing, | want to call your al
r tention TO the fact that the chairrnal
! Of the general agricultural conmltte,
Q Of the National House Of Representa-
tiyes has been retired to private life
2 This gentleman may have been con
K ScienuoUs in opposing Legislation look
z ing 10 the stopping Of gambling il
Il farm products, but nevertheless an
n from whatever motive. he did oppO6
T. all such The new Congress viii Du
e. an end 70 his ca paciCy for mischief
y Another gentleman, the senior sen
o ator from Louisiana, also felt the ca
G to oppose measures which would hav
II stopped thimole rigging IL the mar
,r ket. He also viii have the pleasur
le Of staying at home for the next f.
Ie years.