Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-06
THE SAPIRO PLAN
7 And BIG BUSINESS
(SIXTH ARTICLE)
By Victor Victor

sixth ARTICLE)
There vague expressions American diom than the
term big business is used this article merely because
other phrase available intenden here
signifies all the centralized powers that
comprises the great called Combines (actua suspecte
5n bst n money! d drGa h @
group which sometimes referred to oganzed capital and
and sometimes sinister all schemes affairs of the nation
and its people.
Now great plans and movements which have succeed
ed in the with very little and much vigorous opposi
ton from big business The steady advance power organized
embatted attitude the part of capitalistc interests
Nevertheless bg business is mighty force have your
oppose these few notes set down to show why
sound reason for thinking that bg business class will be
inclined to assist rather than oppose such
by the farmer.
begin WITH let's examine the position of the farmer in our
economic structure Is he labor is he capital?
The that he be assed neither hap
pens be both He is absolutely by He both
works and He works his his land makes
his product and he after made In short he only
both the capital and the labor thereof, by himself.
s o has hereto been the policy & bus
the leading agent bringing about the organization
MISSILE and-and sometimes coser There
why should big business fail to the policy toward
Let examine into this little further Sapro plan
is the farmer organizing class which intends hold up
every other class OF people, is he organizing number
separate and absolutely ndependen unit fer each dS
hat he is doing.
Get this straight and you have an economic turn of mind
thinking will bring flood of understanding
The Sapiro organization is COMMODITY unit and not
GLASS unit The farmer may produce
and market them all Sapo plan but to do
he will have join fourteen different and absolutely independent
organizations Here not the farmer standing forth and crying
Because am farmer want this and want that Here is the
farmer saying simply 81 produce this that particular product
sell am going to join what make of that commodity to what
number OF my fellows make to form great unit thereof which
be sold at less and arer profit than obtain
trying to market my share by myself"
TO big business and the whole public fact there all the
be remarked big why gigantic
tive marketing units should be kept independent possible Of the
control existing general farm organizations These should
but not dominate the formation of such units and should let
them alone when formed
big by big business and to be dealt
your sapo plan farmer going '' '0 CLASS @S0''s
Now may leap to the conclusion that because the
interests big and little the big country as class
would oppose this entry into their midst If thinking along
those lines consider two things:
% It only small percentage Of the big business
the country which thrive by the exploitation of the farmer must
not be forgotten that moneyed interests which conservav
finance SPECTATORS but do speculate themselves could get
financing the farmer himself Financing South alone eu
enaed by profitable instead Of Improbable agriculture could give
The whole fabric Of American business big and little is right
on the verge OF just the American
mf is the same and big knows it. and has said
avhg big business means saying the farmer
tate the wh0 Alpha and Omega of the methods Of that salvation
knock him in the head and exploit him again he reached
the passing OUT stage more yank him up him
again, and ad infinitum.
Forming cooperative marketing associations which others
besides the actual producers allowed become members
which small scattered loosely tied together
exert real influence prices the ideal way initiating
farmer into this delightful which make the crying baby
smile by showing him the beautiful and when he quiet
well behaved again take away his cake
But the American farmer indicating that he won't submit
any such quit first do things das
trous. if that can be possible, to "big business"
Do know what he doing the Dakota Wisconsin, and
mutterng about doing everywhere else He monkeyng with
barrel OF potent INT peacefully labelled Nonartan League
Some Of the ingredients consists Of forms of Socialism plus little
control of the government complete fl
nancng OF all farm interests farmer alliance necessary
radical element labor against capital and other things equally
omnous in big business"
Some time ago. the captalsc big popular magazine in
America published wonderful article bewang the growing
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