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people touches the earth so closely a,
the farmer, none. other is so essentiaI
70 the welfare of all our citizens am,
none SO large in numbers and n
service: -
therefore Be It Resolved by tine
agricultural Reconstruction Commit
| zee OF the National Board of Farm
organizations meeting in Washing
lon, y e, January 40, 1919. that #
Is rlght, wise, appropriate, and on
perfume that the farmers of Ameri-
ca should prepare and publish a gen-
efal plan for reconstruction after the
war; and be it further
Resolved, that said plan should ba
based among others upon the follow
ing facts and principles:
L That any hasty solution of this
great question is almost certain to be-
unbalanced and unjust, and that the
plan finally adopted must be based on
thorough knowledge and full consid-
Grafton of the essential facts both at
nome and abroad.
2. That said plan shall not be
limited to securing the welfare of any
SINGLE class or interest, but shall he
designed to assure justice to the pro-
Queer and consumer alike and TO
Orlng safety and prosperity to all the
peoples OF our common country.
8. That said plan shall recon-
mend no change for the sake of
mango, nor accept an ancient wrong
rs constituting vested right.
4. That the making, maintenance,
md protection of prosperous homes
the first object of government, and
nat the most valuable of all citizens !
the man who owns the land on ,
'hlch ne grows the crops that yield t
is living. :
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producers of the League. | am in
sfructed to inform you of this action
and OF our loyalty to your cause.
8 (Signed)
w. T. GREASY, Chairman.
K. ID. Cooper, president of the
Dairymen's League, says: THE abuse
of food producers by city officials, the
daily harangue of agitators against
farmers for political purposes, the
disregard of unprecedented cost find
lngs is SO widening the gulf between
city and country that disaster untold
will result if this class warfare is
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and Duck and Duckess, and said how
proud they were that one of them
was to be Duckess, and begged her,
II possible, to make Ducks and brakes
to them, which she solemnly prom
ised to do.
1t was not long after that the news
arrived that the Rooster had so
sWelled up that he had burst and was
dead.
Hail, Columbia" cackled the chick
ems, Now We shall surely have the
yard back again for ourselves, just as
we had it before
mot much," said the agent, che has
left will and has given the whole
yard to the Duck and Duchess"
by what right" said the foolish
chickens, "does the dead rooster give
away our land? He is dead and no
longer has any interest in it. It is
BAD enough to pay rent and interests
and profits to live rooster, without
beng compelled to pay it to dead
one. The Duck and Duckess have not
practlced abstinence nor do they even
earn the wages Of superintendence,
and they are not entitled to seven
elghths OF the products Of our labor.
They do not even live here. Why'
should we be compelled to give them
seven-eighths of our time when we
are starving"
Now, | want to tell you," said the
agent, "that we are living under the
capitalistic system, and a man has
right to do with his own property as
he pleases. When we first started
the capitalist system in this yard we
were the only chickens that could
boast of it, but now all the other
chickens in the world have this same
capitalistic system, and they are one
and all producing a bigger pile of
worms than they consume, For that
reason we can no longer sell from our
pile of worms, and unless you use it
to support the Duck and Duchess III
and luxury, we shall be COM
PEELED to stop all digging of worms
and shut down this works"
swell, if we cannot dig worms, how
are we to live ?" cried the chickens.
"That is just it. You will starve,
so you might as well submit"
swell, now, see here. We are not
going to starve, nor are we going to
submit. We are going to take this
chicken yard and stop paying rent,
interest and profit.
what" shouted the agent, horri-
fed, "Would you violate sacred rights
IF capital? Would you break the laws
If rent and interest apd profit? Would
you treat with disrespect the laws Of
Political Economy? Would you con-
iscate other chickens property? For
shame, you are no better than Non
PARTISAN Leaguers."
Cali right" said they. If that be
then we will be Non
,artisans. This can be borne no
onger, and We are going to have that
which was stolen from us. We are
soing to own our own yard and we
ire going to eat all the worms we can
ind"
And when the agent saw that they
we're determined he decamped and
vas never seen in the yard since. And
he whole yard once more belongs to
ii the chickens, and all the worms
hat each finds belongs to the finder,
nd all have enough who are willing
o scratch for living.
well, we did not think it was so
asy," said the chickens.
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Why, in the yard" they said.
But this is my yard, l bought it
as the Reward of Abstinence"
Stuff, you only abstained from
eating one single worm"
"Ah, yes. But then l Invested the
proceeds and by exercise of business
acumen,' | acquired possession of the
Whole yard, and now you cannot live
on my land unless you pay me rent"
What is rent" asked cockereI.
why, all you have to do is to give
NE one-half of the worms that you
t1nG and then you can still live in my
yard. But as the rent must be paid
IN advance you must give me every
ftct worm and then you can have tnc
second worm for yourselves"
what nonsense. We are still 90
ing to eat all the worms that we find
just as we have always DONE"
But the old rooster showed them
from his Political Economy" how the
Interests Of Labor and Capital are
Identical" because if they did not pay
him rent he would close the works and
declare shutdown and not let them
scratch in his yard at all, and SO
they would all starve to death. From
this time they found they had to work
just twice as hard for living as they
did before, as they had to give half
their worms to the rooster for rent,
but the rooster did not have 20
scratch or work at all, as he received
as rent as many worms as all the rest /
OF the chickens put together. Soon
his pile Of worms. began to grow very /
fast, and no matter how many he ate
he could not keep it down. He be-
came very fat and lazy and sneered
at the working classes. So he began
looking around for a way to dispose
Of the surplus, and one day said to a
pert young hen with matrimonial in
tentions:
marry me and you can live off my
pile of worms and not have to scratch
for living" And the hen, nothing
oath, became his wife.
Then the other chickens objected.
'It is true that you think you have
bought our yard with your abstinence,
put from what has the hen abstained,
hat she gets the products of our la
DOR for nothing?" +
"Now, see here" said the rooster.
This whole land belongs to me, and
am going to do with my property as
wish. 1t is entirely matter of pri- !,
ate business with which you have
nothing to do"
"But, excuse us, it seems as if we
lave something to do with it, when
you get half of the worms that we
lig. We are compelled to work one
lalf day of each day fer you and
,nly the other half to work for our
Selves"
"Well, if you do not like the way
he business interests OF IHiS ydIu dio ,
conducted, you can get out of it and
ref off the earth"
So the other chickens had to submit
nd the capital of the country grew
anger and larger, until it "smelled
0 Heaven" Then the chickens said:
"You cannot eat all those worms IT
,ou live a hundred years. What is
ne use of piling them up"
ooh, but" he said, Il am going to
ave a large retinue to help consume
he surplus" =
So he told one of them to spread !;
ut his wings in front OF him SO az
0 shade hlm from the hot sunshine,
nd another TO fan him with his
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wings, as he was now too law to 4,
1t iof himself. Then he had a mic,
little htn for a manicure to trim .,r
claws ami massage chicken to ri
1lm down in the effort to keep dowr
the fat. And he told all his retinu1
trey could live off the pile of worms
But 1t was lot long before the rooster
and his wife and their one littl;
chick were complaining of the incom-
potency Of domestic help.
The rooster was coaxed by his wife
TO have q new palace coop with gold
en- roosts. The golden roosts were not
as comfortable as the wooden ones.
but were more swagger.
But ali this time the chickens hal
been raising broods of their own, and
the yard now began to be well filled,
so that it became harder to get
enough worms for all, especially when
they had to give one-half to the old
rooster. So the rooster said:
Il see that | will have to raise your
rent, and after this you will have to
Jay me three-quarters of all the
worms you find, instead of one-half."
Then the chickens made an outcry
when you first made your bargain
with us there were only one-tenth as
many chickens in the yard as there
are now, and SO you are getting ten
times as many worms as we bargained
for, as we still have to give you one
half Of all the worms we Dig"
"Why, of course" said the rooster,
''that is natural increase"
"Well, we cannot afford to pay any
more rent because it is much harder
to make living now than when there
were fewer chickens"
'That is just the reason why you
MUST pay more. Any political
economy will tell you that the harder
it is to make living the more the
living is worth. You must be fools
not to know that density Of popula-
ton makes high rents. And now, I
want to tell you that if you do not
stop grumbling / will import a lot of
other chicks from the outside. We
will have foreign immigration to keep
down the price of labor and keep up
the price of rents. In short, we will |
open the doors to the poor and OPP
pressed of all nations and they shall !
come to live in The land of the free /
and the home of brave to find with
us refuge from the tyranny and in
justice of the iron heel of despotism.' %
But the chickens were now in very
bad way, and many of them actually
starved to death. So the rooster said:
4You must not do that. 1t would
be the height of ingratitude if you
should all starve to death, for if you
should all die what would become of
ne? Why, I might actually be COM
5e1ned to scratch for my own living
IN my vast domain, which, without
is teeming millions, would be worth
ess."
"Well, then, we do not see," said
hey, IF the teeming millions give all /
he value to the vast domain why the
yast domain does not belong to the
eeming millions"
"Well, certainly despair of ever
eaching you anything about political
economy" said the rooster.
"Now," continued he, when you gat
O the verge Of starvation come to me
md / will generously lend you some ,
# my worms and you shall pay me
/,
whats INTEREST,"" said they. I.
"Why, just before you starve,
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must understand there are no classes
in this country and that there is moth,
ing to arbitrate."
But the chickens were getting s,
restless that he said to some of the
clever ones:
"Come now, you preach to the chick
ems and tell them that God made ne
itch and the other poor, and you can
live off my pile of worms. You tell
them that poverty is blessing, that
they must be content with their lot
and not rebel against the will of the
Most High"
This quoted them for awhile. for
they said: eff we have a hard game
here, we shall have just so much bet
ter time hereafter.
But it was only for a short while,
for their poverty was awful, and the
upper classes used to say that the
lower classes really liked to live
in dirt and filth, but the chickens
said:
"We have no time to plume our
feathers Or even take dust bath. We
are too busy trying to get enough to
eat. Give US enough to eat and you
will see that we will keep clean"
But the old rooster said:
1--WE will found charities and I vii!
give ten worms very day if you give
the same, and we will get up chart
table organization societies."
ooh, yes," said the ungratefuf
chickens, "you take a thousand worms
from US every day and give US back
ten, and think you are very holy and
"Now, see here" said the rooster.
you have been listening to the ag1-
tators again. Let me tell you that
the interests of the laboring chickens
will not be looked after by the Labor
Nonpartisan League speakers again. |
Let me tell you that the interests of /
the laboring chickens will not be
looked after by the League organiz-
ers, but by the Christian rooster, to
whom God, in His infinite wisdom, has
given the property of this country"
One day he came home from his
foreign tour all in a flutter. For he
said that duck, or Duke, as he
called it, had asked him for the hand
# his daughter in marriage. TIE
Duck had told him that he was awful
y in debt, but that it would be fine
hing for his daughter to be called
Duchess, as he called it, and that papa
'ooster could pay off all thee debts Of
he Duck with his immense pile of
worms, and in that way he could eff
ectually dispose of the surplus and
re relieved from production. The
buck also told him they could all still
i've off of the interest and the profits
f the chicken yard. The rooster said
urther that they were all going to
i've abroad with his daughter and
on-in-law, the Duck, and that he
ought place, Skylow Castle, and
hat the chickens must all be very
roud that their country chick was !,
.oing to be a Duckess.
"Glory Hallelujah," shouted the :
.
hickens, "when he is gone we can
ave the yard to ourselves again"
But the rooster had left an agent to Y
ook after his interests, and the !
hickens found that the agent was I
arder than the master, because the :
0oster mad big lot of rotten debts I
T the Duck to pay, too. But when 9
hey all came back and the wedding I
ay arrived, the chickens all kissed
ne feet of the rooster and roosteress, q
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Federal Trade Commission

come to me and I will lend you enough
worms to keep you alive, and for ey.
cry ten you borrow you shall pay nat
back eleven"
And often the chickens were Sc
hungry they were, il desperation
compelled to borrow from the pile OF
worms, but they soon discovered il
was easier to go without than it was
to pay back both principal and inter
est.
And many of them declared that f
they could not get enough to keep
themselves alive it was a sin and a
shame to hatch any more chickens in
the world. Then the old rooster read
them long lecture on race suicide,
because if they all died he and his
ret1nue would be compelled to scratch
for q living.
One day, after reading his "Politl-
cal Economy" he beamed all over and
said:
The trouble is over-production.
"Over-production," cried the CHICK
ems in establishment. ave call it I'M
der-consumption. The idea of call
ing it over-production when we are
starving to DEATH"
He got out his political Economy
to convince them that they could not
get enough to eat because there were
too many worms and that the only
way in which they could get any
worms to eat was to dispose of the
surplus, SO that there would not be
SO many worms, and they could go to
work and dig more worms. The
chickens fled, fearing some new dis
aster, but he explained to the few
that were left that they must build IN
a large foreign trade, and that if they
made their land the workshop of the
world and sold more than they bought |
and rolled up a large balance of trade, |
they would all get rich. So now he
advocated the open door and foreign
missions to convert the heather, and |
went in the world and bought all |
kinds of tinsel and gewgaws and GIN
racks to hang around the necks of his
wife and daughter. These gimcracks /
were not at all comfortable, but they
tickled the vanity of the fat hen and
her silly daughter and made the
starving chickens envious and miser-
able.
But the piles of worms still grew.
Then the old rooster said:
"See how prosperous we are. See
what an enormous foreign trade we
nave built up"
But the chickens said:
''It may be general prosperity, but
t is also private starvation, and as
usual the general gets all the honors,
While the private gets the knocks"
"Why," says the rooster, "see what
| profit | have made. I now own all
hese foreign gimcracks and my pile |
# worms is greater than ever be- :
ore. The high tide of prosperity will |
,nable US to drive all the rest of the
world out of business and we shall b
ave the entire market to ourselves.
"Well, what good will that do us ."
aid the chickens. "Shall we have to I
'ay less rent" II
"Why, of course not, stupids. Rents
Vill advance on account of general I
and increase in population {
trough foreign immigration. And I
rant you to understand that I will !
of have any fool talk about labor {
roubles and arbitration from crazy I
gitators who only stir strife and ar {
ay one class against another. You I
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lded Up'
II was issued for the Semi-An.
- Conference of the National
: Farm Organizations to be
= The City of Washington, D. G.,
..i;,g February IL.
,,;ssion of ten men were ap-
% 90 to Europe as soon a /.
~ =. following the semi-annuai
J. m February II, at which
sD' amer instructions and creden-
n he given the delegation fox
.,nose of carrying out their mis-
abroad.
,4,,nc endorsement was given
'o,;rrroen's League of New York.
!. y' +.,tative plans for the erection
:, Temple Of Agriculture and its
'.-,ent as proposed by the Build
.,rrittee, which met with the
.tc,ctiOn Committee, were I'M
,,,lr approved, and instruction.
1ren to the Committee to pro-
! once to institute a campaign |
!. raising of funds for the |
rs
!. suggestion Of A. B. Thornhill,
:. manager Of the National
:, Union, Lynchburg, Virginia,
/, plan be worked out SO. that
In may have an opportunity,
!, With merchants and jobbers, to
IT, barb wire, gasoline engines,
tricks and other agricultural
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-17
A LESSON FROM THE CHICKEN COOP

Theory About the ROOster-How
4, Smart Chicken Squeezed All
Other Chickens Out of the Yard,
h as the ROckefellers, the Nor
b and the GOulds Push the
|iner, the Small Merchant and
Industrial Worker OFF the Earth.
upon a time there was a
u yard which afforded ample
| m all the chickens that lived
|i afforded a great plenty OF
50 that none went hungry who
/ b scratch for a living. And
I'D belonged to all the chickens,
I'd had a right to scratch where
lRd and all the worms that nc
Rl0nged to him. So they were
happy and as fat as all good
ought to be.
one day a wise man became
ed With a work on Political
sF' for the book contained a
nsense about the Rights of
Rent" profit" and "Int-
50 the wise man, tearing the
pieces, threw it out of the
md caught the chapter that
e the wise man so furious
saed it into the chicken yard. |
d front Of an able-bodied
'a0 looked it over, thinking
md on an advertising page
Y hlnd Of food. He soon be-
sofOed and said to himself:
"a fool I have been to scratch
ne for a living when this
= J me how l can get a living |
-1g and without work, for
la | work when I can make
'nckens work for me? |
aId to the other chickens:
! a large fat and juicy
a. as | am not hungry you
-uS Worm if you give me
qoae yard of this big
Do and ''et me have this for
H. y course you can have it,
SaIa the others in a roar
H.. "' his folly, what is one
:. yard Of our vast domain?
~ ~ Worm and take YOUR
~ .. Wherever you choose"
sr s%l' | will take the spring
ls' Of the yard"
h the spring" .
- ssId his peace until one cf
/ !. y: becoming thirsty, start
.''ing to get a drink. Then !
'2p keep away from that
/ 5ab nine" ' ''-A'
N Oegan to cackIe and said
| so, axe the water anyway.
] pss sf read them out of his
! ponp l1my" and showed thera
2f ~ " encroach on his Vest
Iey drank water with !
~ They argued until ;
IA y u 50 thirsty that they
i u. = no longer. Then the )
n '' I'll tell you what Til +,
as ~ W. a drink all around
O S sq0are yard of the chick-
l@, wufse, you will not miss
els dying, n of thirst, SO they t
i Roma accept his Offer,
aptbs'u rlnk and the rooster /
sss - square yard of their t
soed D' 50 many days be-
h. the whole chicken q
&. : said, where arc Won /,
a
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-17
IRCULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION
COMMITTEE MEETS SATURDAY

,.,oI Reconstruction Commit
p', ,,.ots Saturday at Washington,
Z : MANY Important Matters are
,.iod Upon.
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'roducers News, per year.------..A ECO
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