Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-12-30
x!LLMAR TRIBUNE, wEpEEspAY, DECEMBER 80, isl4


your wheat market. It is q great
fight, worthy one and one to which
you should stick until you have won
every point you are AFTER"
BENJAMIN Drake, Minneapolis:
mo commission house in Minneapolis
could accumulate the wealth that is
held by them from the commission
received. This wealth has been made
off the options.
Il want to see you win cut in this
fight. I want you to stick to it until
you get grain market that doesn't
make gambling its cornerstone"
President Vincent, U. of M.:-You
must be philosophers" he said. 1.-THE
philosopher sees all sides of a sub
ject. Philosophy makes people change
their minds sometimes, just as you
farmers have recently changed your
minds In regard to marketing your
grain. This convention comes as a
result. This plan of cooperation is
the best thing in the world and the
one big way to get what is fair"
M. D. Mum, St. Paul, reviewed the
fight made by the Equity in the courts
when at times, he said, it's existence
was Threatened. Freedom of mar
ket is one of the rights of the pro-
ducer," Mum declared, "and you farm
ers deserve to have freedom in mar
keting your crops. You should be able
to dispose of your grain in your own
way, and without the interference of
the great interests that are opposing
you. You are sure to win your fight
for fair terminal market Just as we
have won many of our points in
court"
]. E. Kelley, former congressman of
South Dakota:-"St Paul now has the
only open and free grain exchange in
the world,
mo man not member of tt e Min
neapolis Chamber Of Commerce can
sell one bushel Of grain on that mar.
ket. Your st. Paul market is open to
the world end so is the only market
of it's kind in the whole country"
E. G. Dunn, of Iowa:-Any person
should be able to buy and sell in any
market of the United States, without
interference. I am a member Of the
Chicago Board Of Trade, but I know
that organization, the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce, and all like
associations will eventually have to 60
out Of business if they can't render
as cheap and efficient service as other
organizations.
II don't agree with Pres. Vincent in
! his statement that it is good to fight
with a smile on your face. 1 think
if thing is worth fighting for it is
worth getting mad, and good and mad
about. I fight without a smile on my
face or smile and do not fight at all
"You men will win if you just keep
on fighting. Your cause is right and
you should fight and stay mad every
day until you get the fair kind of a
market that you are striving for
E. G. Hall, president Minneapolis
State Federation Of Labor:-"You
farmers in this movement have met
Opposition from almost every source
but you have not yet met the gunman
We have. He is coming to you as
sure as the world. When the big in.
terests find they can't win in other
ways they will go to very extreme
measures to defeat. any organization
such as this. Watch them and keen
on fighting!
1.-THE trades union movement inter.
ests you farmers, because our fight is
the same as yours in almost every
way. Abuse has been and will be
heaped upon you farmers the same as
upon us. The big interests have done
Everything possible to hurt us and
they will do the same to discredit and
hurt you. They call us an unlawful
organization and tell you farmers
even that we try to restrain trade
Now they will come to us, and say
that you farmers are trying to dc
that same thing because they don't
like the idea of your organizing and
cooperating to take some of their I'M
just profits that you deserve.
"Your Equity society is truly a CO.
operative move, the same as IS organ
lied labor. Unions are no more than
cooperative bodies, formed to aid the
laboring man just as you are organ
izing to aid the farmer.
"All labor asks is square deal and
a just payment for labor done, just a
living such any worker deserves. AS
understand, you farmers are asking
only for the same thing. The labor
ing man is glad to see the farmer
fighting for square deal.
1--WE know something is wrong
Why? Because you farmers are meet
ing here in protest. You say you dc
not get enough for your grain and 9TH
er produce. We laborers claim and
know that we are paying the topnotch
price for food and other necessities
of life. If you don't get enough for
your produce and we pay too much
where is that money we pay going?
1T does not go to you.
"Something is wrong and by organ
izing and cooperating we can find out
what it is.
"They say we break the law. We