Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-07
The AGE OF ORGANIZATION
Mr.. Randall Tells How Big Business
10 Organized and Meet You


10 Organized and Meet You
to Levy Their Toll.
Four hundred thousand men organ
lied and the strength of their organi-
zation forced the President Of the
United States to adopt radical means
for preventing these men from tying
up the railroads of the United States.
The currency that we use is the
result Of laws initiated by the Bank
ers' Association. Organization again.
The price you pay for everything
that you buy is determined by organ
izations of individuals engaged in the
manufacturing and distribution Of
those articles. Some more organiza-
ton.
II farmer calls physician, the
law says what his fee shall be based
on, the miles he has to travel to
reach the patient. Doctors organized
and obtained that law.
II you borrow money, there is a
legal rate Of interest you must pay.
That is the rate set by law. Who
made this law? The borrower? Oh,
my no. The fellow engaged in loan
ing money through his organization
Of bankers made the law. A good or
ganization for the bankers.
Want to place insurance on your
growing crop against hail? Walk
right In. We have a rate determined
by the Insurance Organizations. Sign
on the dotted line. Your note at eight
per cent until fall is all o. X. with US.
But you say, II have not called a
doctor in a year; I have not had &C.
casion to borrow money, and can
not afford insurance, so all this does
not apply to me-"
All right, brother, we will get you
some way, so let us see how we'll you
can dodge Reorganization" by taking
the ordinary daily experience Of the
farmer.
You arise at 5 a. M, and the first
thing you do is to light a fire, with
which to cook your breakfast. What
do you do? Pay tribute to the
Match Trust. Put a little coffee in
the pot organization again; the Cof-
fee Trust tells you the price. Do you
use sugar? Got you again. The Sug-
ar Trust never sleeps. If you eat
some bacon that was made from hogs
that you sold for 8 cents, you will
have paid at least Is cents for it;
Packing Trust, this time. Go out and
harness the team; the Leather Trust
has fixed the price of the harness.
Back the nags up to binder made
! by the international Harvester Trust,
and you are at it again. Coming and
going, day in and day out SOME
BODY ELSE is telling you the price
of everything your hand touches.
After the harvest is over and it
comes time to sell your product in or
der to pay all these Trustifed Monop-
olies, you are met again by the we'll
organized gentlemen who have set the
price on the thing you have to, sell.
You are not consulted at any time
about the price. You are always ask
ing some other fellow the price of
the thing you buy, and the price of
the thing you have to sell. This is
Organization with vengeance. Ever
think about this, Mr.. Farmer? Or
ganization is a splendid thing. Works
fine. Laws are rules made by the
peoples representatives, with the in
tent of adjusting the economic inter-
ests Of different groups in society
with equity. Monopoly exists by the
consent Of the people. AS much as
you dislike monopoly and as much as
monopoly represents only the inter
ests of the MonOpolist, yet, you are
constantly consenting to the rules
protecting Monopoly in their 'legal'
right to rob you. You do it, by act
ing as individuals, believing that thru
the channels of the Republican, So
cialist, Democratic, Prohibition, or
some other political DIVISION" of
the people, you will settle these great
economic questions, but you won't.
You ask me, why? Well, I will ask
you in return, How much Of these
great questions have been settled in
the last 100 years, by the use of pol
itical divisions" None at all. Why?
Because, political parties DIVIDE the
people, instead Of uniting them. Big
Biz belongs to both the Republican
and the Democratic parties. Win or
lose, he wins.
Big Biz works through both these
political parties. They exist only to
reflect the economic interest Of the
class who sets the price. Get that
into your head good and solid, and
when you have you are ready for the
remedy.
What is the remedy?
ORGANIZATION.
AS these, who are constantly tell.
ing you the price, are organized, and
through their organization they con.
troll legislation, both National and
State, so you, Mr.. Farmer, and Mr.
Workingman and Mr.. Small Merchant
you will have to ORGANIZE and
through organization correct the evils
that have sprung up all around you
as the result of organized capital
Organize the producers of wealth. De
termine what you want and then dc
what the Trusts have done; get con
troll of the legislative bodies and en-
act laws that will protect you in YOU
your right to control the commodities
that your labor produces. What is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander. Every farmer has a common
interest. You cannot protect that in
terest by dividing the farmers. Pol
itical partisanship divides that. Or
ganize and you protect your interests
E. Pluribus Unium is the motto Of the
United States. It should be the mot
to of the farmer.
In my next letter I shall tell you
how the farmers Of North Dakota
united and through their united eff
fort elected men to public Office thai
they themselves chose and they were
chosen because they were in sym
: pathy with the program that the farm
ers had decided they wanted enacted
into law. The day of individual &C
ton is past. The day of organization