Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-09-01
by Col. Alba Haywood.

Speaking about the price Of corn:
We have a bunch of farmers who are
independent sellers ON The outside al
the Unit Marketing SYSTEM who furnish
4 sufficient number If ears ID keep the
independent shelters ana safes agents
busy a part Of the time. IL yoI talk 90
them yoI will find them nOtunfricHdly.
They tell you: Oh. yes if all the
farmers would join. We could get the
market price alright. The Unit Mar
kcting System is \ good thing and has
done good but We believe that there are
some advantages on the outside now and
then and they remain out 10 avail them
selves of the catch aS catch cam ad-
vaHtages. cutting their cwn noses OF
% spite their own faces.
Then. what is verse than ~lndepenl
cnts.' on the outside Of the Unit Mar
keting System are the "WahhlerS'' IL
the inside. that are 4 milestone around
the nc'k vi The system and would drOwn
il but for the huovancy Of the majority.
They lower the grade If our member
ship. for Cur enemies tWho are the in
sreciorsl grade rs according q the
lowest sample III the crate. We need
standard pack in nur membership AZ
AAiA a~ III VAA N4fNtfahh ANA~s tAtHA NH+L
hicrs'- profess allegiance to The system
thcy really d0 believe in it's principles
especially they believe IN ~ prachas
ana apples AMI potatoes aud its super
i0r returns. but they apparently are Sc
abuormally selfish that They dislike 1,
nay their little debt III gratitude. pay
able IN LOYALTY L. the Unit Marko'ine
system. and ~ tkcy ful some ha~iv>pii'
ting excuse for patrCnizing the indie
pendent sales agent.
There are others who claim LOYALTY
hnf. listen. Won viii hear them ask
What are Won fcllcrS paving for corr
todayY'' This fierioSgS thr fac, thu
tlsv need more "yuit Serum i~nicctc7
into their S%yStcns.' The Guit man asks
What are W.T. %fnIlcrs getting for coI
tcdav?' Slbc the difference ?
The time viii come when these ahnor
mally selfish men instead m srrkinr
pretty Justification Ia break over viii
stay w the Unit Marketing system Y
close that Won couldn't drive them away
with 4 club. When win that time
come? Just W. 600 ~ u majority of u.
decide land nut our decision into ~0p
crete form That we have gotten al N
outsiders on the inside that We can rc'
i'm I'M Kindness ana good Treatment
when We assert the dignity of The Uni
Marketing system and ~ton the fast anr
loose policy with orr members. in order
to iucitc them.
Before people knew That orr organ.
cation was really a farmers orglniza
ton. u TN farmers. with Il constitution
and ht laws that made III automatically
honest il was wen t0 hc liberal with our
benefits and pu;icc him tp us hut once
4 man knows and acknowledges that thc
Unit Marketing System iS 4 good thing
N Is about time ta take u firm >iHnd
that he must cleo; tn STAY in and STAY
hy The constitution AMI bylaws ana cn-
Joy itS blessings or else get ont aud sur
render the benefits and blessings entire
IN AMI east his Tot with unorganizrl. HIN
hazard independents.
We must stick together: We must look
upon The nickel shaved oT lhc price VT
each hu>hcl Of corn ~ the most valuable
nickel If All the nickcls included III tn
price. Mhv? Because the other mirk-lS
are individual nickel~. iEcy are Snrni
for Hide things anu are gone. While
thr nickel shaved ni is \ -a-ourrativr
nickel that with the other fellows 20
operative nickclS buys Y BIZ thing. TIL
cooperative nickel buys f0r Won benefits
You could not have but for its co-gpcra-
ton; think NJ II III This LIGHT ana q
win not bcgrrdge il and vabhlr.
We must help ourselves: there is hut
one way tn wv ij-ore rnizltion. The
Vnit Marketing Sysl,m IL The only or
eanizatinn- II IN 80 Luilt that il is nm
toms1ticilly h5neS. Eyory man gets
2 square deal. there in uo di~crimina-
lion. The farmer OWNS ii. not in frti n
bft in fact. They own 1t nv maiorit,
rule. II in cor -e,led nli over tho valley
that i has done splendid w0rS-acc0m
pliShcd much. How "uy farmer can. III
The face and ewes M snch II showing
longer stand olt ara not icin anil how
and farmer inside can vahhlc ana know
ingly d0 little things to weaken such m
Organization and think that NJ il in
the long run hettcring himself. i one
of those things that 'paSscth all under
standing.''
When We allow ourselves IN think
along these lines. the lines Of the Ind