Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-10
MILK PRODUCERS MEETING
Mass Meeting of Darymen Held at Delta Monday After
noon, February 28th. The Dairymen's Right to
Organize and the Purposes of Their Organiza-
ton Presented.

Northwestern Cooperative Sales
Company to stand by the officers
they have chosen in their work Of
carrying out the directions, they
have given them; to study the cost
.ot production and eliminate the
Boarder Cows, from their herds;
to seek amicable conferences with
consumers, manufacturers and dis
tributors for the purpose of a fair
price for their product, to insist
upon their right to recognition and
to work together for the protection
of their business.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Brene-
mans address, Mr.. Burr called at
tentlon to a letter circulated among
the members of the Dairymen's CO.
operative Company by the Conden-
sorry companies and stated that this
letter and the contract of the North
western Cooperative Sales Company
had been referred to officials of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, who
in turn had referred the whole mat
ted to Robert ]. Beatty an attorney
OF twenty years experience, part of
the time acting as special counsel 20
the Attorney General of Ohio, for his
opinion. Mr.. Burr then read the re-
ply of Mr.. Beatty as follows:
1T would seem scarcely necessary
to mention the absurd position taken
by the Company or to refute
the ridiculous claims set down by its
officers, did they not attempt by in
timidation to weaken the important
legal right of Ohio Farmers to or
ganize in order to protect their own
vital interests.
"The only credible thing about
this insidiously threatening circular
of the . Company is the fact
that it runs true to every precedent
of the ages old fight of capitalism
against the Cooperative idea of mar
keting farm products.
1T is exactly the same character
of message the Jewish Shylocks and
the cruel money Barons of Rome
sent to the olive grower of Judea
in the prosperous days of the
Caesars except that it is couched in
even more crude language and is far
more repugnant to our modern ideas
of fair business.
"Can anyone imagine the officers
of the Company becoming
alarmed about the cooperative
dairymen being compelled to sell
their farms to pay imaginary debts
unless such an interest is predicated
upon a genuine fear that the farm
ers Of the county are soon to be in
position to sell their milk through
their own organizations rather than
accept whatever price is offered
them by milk companies.
eff the farmers of Northwestern
Ohio are frightened by this drivel-
enTesis- of the Company
or influenced by the boyish claims of
illegality put forth by the company's
officers-fairy talk about the loss
of homes-they (the farmers) will
be compelled to continue to sell their
products without any regard to the
cost of production.
"Now is the time and here is an
opportunity for the dairymen of Ohio
to show their true metal. The North
western Cooperative Sales Company
in my opinion is on the right road
Let Them go ahead and if it takes
years to settle the question, etsab-
lish the principal that the man who
produces a product has the inherent
right to receive more than its cost,
even if that man be a farmer"