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sera Society hes aaneed before the
king; nilsAy has d~creea shss sAe
samily wardrobe shall contain Gsiy
sostea goods: the press hes plead
With the public to 'buy q hale''.
bankers have beea formulating hold
hae plans. congress and Legislative
bodies have deliberated over relief
Measures; statesmen and wssterp
have sro~s eloquent expoundine the
haltensble rights of His Majesty"
sRd presenting schemes Tor preserv-
nag the financial integrity Of the
ssrtcken staple. but the sword Of Ea-
rope has proved miehtier than the pen
Of America In fixing value upon this
product of the sunny south. Prices
have been bayoneted. values Fiddled
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hosts Of the eastern hemisphere until
the Americas farmer has suHered .
Ssr loss sf o4e0 00e eco. cad . hale
Of cotton brave enough TO enter Q
European port must pay q ransom Of
half its value or go to prison until the
var Ia over
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tieA.
The Farmers Union. through the
columns q the press. wants TO thank
the American people for the friend
ship. sympathy and assistance given
the cotton farmers in the hour of dis
tsose and TO direct attention to CO.
operative methods necessary TO per
manently assist the marketing Of all
farm products.
The present emergency presents as
grave q situation as ever confronted
the American farmer and from the
viewpoint Of the produces, would seem
- Justify extraordinary relief meas
uFss, even to the point of bending the
constitutioa and strainins business
rules In order to lift . portioa Of the
burden on the hacks ~ the farmer,
fsr unless something 10 Aoae - check
the Invasion Of the wor foFcss upon
the cotton helds. the pathw way Of the
European pestilence on this continent
will be strewn with mortgased homes
and famine and poverty will stalk over
the southland hlling the highways Of
industry with refugees and the bank
ruptcy court with prisoners
All calamities teach us lessons and
the present crisis serves to illuminate
the frailties Of our marketing meth
DDS and the weakness of our credit
system. and out o: the financial an
guish and travail of the cotton farmer
will come q volume of discussion and
mass of suggestions and finally a
solution Of this. the biggest problem
IN the economic life of America. IL
indeed. We have not already laid the
foundation for at least temporary re.
lief
More Phsraohs Needed IN Asriculture.
Farm products have no credit and
perhaps can never have on a perma
nent and satisfactory basis unless We
build warehouses. cold storage plants,
elevators, etc. for without storage and
cra dit facilities. the south is com
PEELED to dump its crop on the market
at harvest time. The Farmers Unions
IN the cotton producing states have
for the past ten years persistently ad-
vocated the cons truction Of storaee
facilities. We have built during this
period 1000 warehouses with a ca
pacity of approximately 1000. 600 bales
and looking backward the results
would seem encouraging. but lcokins
forward We are able to house less
than one-third of the crop and ware
houses without credit system lose
30 per cent of their usefulness The
problem is a gigantic one-too great
for the farmer to solve unaided He
mast have the assistance of the bank
er the merchant and the government
In production we have reached the
high water mark of perfection in the
worlds history, but our marketing
methods are most primitive. In the
dawn of history We find agriculture
blowing with forked stick but with
Il system of warehouses under govern
mental supervision that made the
Egyptians the marvel of civilization.
Tor who has not admired the vision of
Joseph and app.suded the wisdom OF
Pharaoh for storing the surplus until
demanded by the consumer, but in
this age We have too many Josephs
Who dream and not enough Pharaohs
who build