The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-11-17
BENNINGTON COUNTY FARM
BUREAU LETTER No. TWO

p To the Bennington County Farmers
Is your business worth saving7
Is your business worth expendins
one egg per day to protect?
Are you making lots Of money?
Are you getting fair share Of the
} consumers dollars?
Is your family perfectly satisfied
happy and contented?
Are your home conditions such that
you can keep your boys and girls on
the farm?
Are you ready to help make them
better?
Your voice is needed in this great
crisis.
We have a great responsibility in
doing our share to help the great in
dustrial unrest.
We must get our business on .
working basis with our fellow man.
While we remain unorganized we
are contributing apples, eggs, milk,
potatoes, butter, wool, hides, and other
farm products to men who are not
working for US. Every sign and news
paper advertisement advertising oleo-
margarine, filled milk, and nut mar
garine, is paid for by us farmers and
does not advertise our own goods.
Would it not be better for US to con-
tribute to our own organization a part
Of this wasted money to protect our
own business?
Let us be honest with ourselves, had
we not better contribute the price Of
one-half an egg or even one egg daily
to put our business on the same level
as the manufacturers or even the city
newsboys, and thereby get some pro-
lection as manufacturers or lsboring
men.
Our manufacturers and laboring |
men will not compete with Chinese
coolies, why should we farmers7
Why should we expect doctors, law
yers, merchants or laboring men to
see that we are protected by honest
tariff or help solve taxation problems
These are ours and il we don't take
care Of them, no one else will.
Writing to your Congressman is like
throwing a cup Of water in the ocean,
It does not do any harm, neither does
II help.
When the manufacturer or business
man wants laws made he hires the
best trained men possible; labor
unions do the same. They get the
highest priced men to plead their
cause whether in Washington or else
where. They contribute q part Of
their daily wage, and by so doing they
get results.
Are you going to continue TO sit on
your launches and howl, or are you
xoing to be real man, join hands and
inc up with the farmers Of this na-
ion, and demand square deal7
We are facing a crisis, we cannot
ct things go as they are. Shall we all !
,e cutters and expect some fairy TO
vave q magic wand so we can get .
ust wage for our labor, and feed the t
world and make business prosperous
Real farmers are the only people {
yho can or will honestly represent
griculture. The Farm Bureau, The
'ermont and National Farm Bureaus
re made up Of men and women who b
re every day facing the great farm b
roblema q
New laws and legislative problems S
re continually arising in our State t,
nd National Governments which af- b
ects US farmers. We must have suf- f
cient funds and trained men at all h
mes ready to present the farmers 2,
Iewpoint in all matters whether cred es
s, tariff or marketing facts. 10
II Ia coming, Mr.. Farmer, are you D,
ping to help? There is one way you m
IN help. Join the Farm Bureau, W
tate and National Federation, when is
lied on. Talk it over with your fam oh
y and be ready TO sign up when the Is
,licitors call I'll
Yours for results, DC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, er
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