Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-28
HOW TO ORGANIZE I.
A FARMERS UNION
Widespread Interest of Late Leads to Full Ex-
PLANTATION Of Cost and Details-Also an Outline
of the Benefits Derived and to Come as the Or
ganiZation Gets on It's Feet.

tato house in Chafestown and main
tains an Office at &C Clinton street, and
q selling agency at the Bronx. Harlem,
river.
There appears to be a lack of cor
rect understanding as to the nature of
the association and just why this is it
Is difficult to understand. When the
Great Northern Paper Company incor-
porated under the laws of Maine for
the purpose of selling their product
and buying their supplies everybody
understood the nature of the bust
ness. Now, when the farmers organ
ize to sell their product and buy their
supplies, where is the difference
1t must be understood. however, that
the Farmers Union of Maine is purely
a business corporation and must be
conducted as all other business con-
Germs are conducted. At the start the
management had to be satisfied with
the best they could get However.
| there has been a great change. Then
1t was necessary to visit a section sew
erai times 10 set five or six men TO
identify themselves with the move
ment. Now. there is no soliciting for
the locals come themselves and all the
management has to do is to organize.
On this account greater care can be
exercised in the makeup of the local
unions, thus making sure that the right
men come to the front. The manage
ment of the central body comes from
the locals and therefore if the fountfa-
ton is not laid carefully the structure
itself will be weak.
Maine is an agricultural State and
upon agriculture the people of it must
depend. There can never be bigger
better and buster cities unless the
source of the cities wealth is made TO
prosper. If the merchant desires to
increase his business he must increase
the buying power of the farmer. the
man upon whom he depends to pur-
chase the goods he has to sell. There
lore, instead of feeling that the farmer
mas no rights except TO produce, he
should aid him to get a living profit
for this produce and assist him in buy
ing the articles used on the farm so
that the extra money saved in buying
and selling could he expended in the
city store. No state can prosper when
'iiN idi iiiVi Is Selling ms pTOQuCt below
cost and paying large profits on-,that
which he must buy The more mick
ly these facts are recognized and the
proper relief given the more quickly
the city and the whole State will in
crease in population and general pros
perity prevail.
The farmer must be supplied with
sufficient capital with which to finance
his farm operations. 1t is surprising
that this has not long ago received the
attention of business men and bank
ers. The farmer instead of being able
to borrow as other business men Dor
row, has to buy on time paving an
enormous rate of interest for the man
who pays his bills must make up for
the man who neglectS to paw. There
are sections where a sort of q broker
borroWs from the banks al 6 per cent.
and reloans the farmer at II Der cent.
In other words the farmer gives his
note for 800 and receives SIS only.
Instead of the banks. financing the
farmer in buying fertilizer he is fl
nanced by the companies/ outside the
State and owing. to poor bills the rate
of interest must be high and the farm
er again suffers.
The Maine farmer is in many cases
Disseminated against. Our freight