The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-12-15

! PAID Tor enlightened methods, as pro-
duction of low grade, badly and poorly
marketed tobacco has not paid the cost
of production in the last generation or
will it ever in future generations.
The development of the last year
has shown the members of the Associa-
ton just who it's enemies are. The
majority of progressive bankers and
business men in the tobacco area are
heart and soul for the Association, but
there are few who have preferred to
throw their influence to the support of
the enemies of the growers The farm
ers realize that every business man has
perfect right to throw his support
wherever he sees fit, but they are in
forming such business man that they
as farmers, claim the same privilege,
and in time, these masks will be torn
from the false friends as our friends
are growing daily and our growers have
learned much in the last few years and
have determined to stick to the Asso-
citation, if it takes a few years TO win
their fight for economic Independence. g 9
So to sum up, take a pencil for few
minutes. but you will ind that you
havn't big mathematical problem
where any lawyer, doctor, banker. coun-
the rs per cent organizations Of Ken
lucky, Virginia and North Caroline put
over S4, 900 900 extra dollars in the
hands of the farmers and the wonderful
organization of Kentucky sold the crop
of last year at 50 % per hundred more
than it was sod for the previous year,
and all of the many thousands of dollars
so derived, will go into every channel
nf nd ho
many thousand farmers and their fami-
lies will spend in day more than the
few, that are against your interest,
spend among you IN half of thousand
years, and the bu ,-1rs an manufacture
ers received an intelligent proposition
to. handle and handled it at 25 per cent
less expense than they could had by
the old methods. The large manufac
lures and leaf dealers have said, and
it is easy for all to comprehend that
the public have never combined of the
little increase to the consumer and the
higher standard of living now establish
ed, which has been brought about by
organization of all trades business and
professions will be maintained and
warrent a higher permanent buying
standard, and the farmers must organ
ize to protect his interest accordingly
and all that the buyers and manufac
lures want to know, is that they are
getting what they buy, presented to
them in such shape that it can be in
telligently and economically handled at
a conservative price that will include a
profit and make the producer consum-
er.
Also to know that there is not enough
outside of these channels for compe.i-
tor to buy at lower price to interfere
with standard prices to the consumer,
based on living prices to the producer.
This. is Plain. This is Business
and only can be done by organization,
and today you have the producers, large
buyers and manufacturers working for
a common cause with only one handi-
cap and that is, under the present sys-
TEN of marketing. Improved and en-
conditions are fast gaining a
satisfactory momentum. The big
companies see these things very quick
ly. That is why they are very anxious
to help your organization, as they can
make far more money by buying your
crops at price that will make you a
consumer, than at ridiculous low
price below the cost of production that
it is today sold on the Baltimore Mark
ct. But you undertand, in order to pro-
tect themselves, they have to buy your
crop as low as it can be bought against
their competitors. On the Baltimore
Market you have reverse condition. |
The Organization not having a IS per
cent membership does not control the |
price or the material things that could |
be done for the industry; must accept |
the prices made or keep the tobacco |
which cannot by done to your interest. |
Now all of the above business men |
who are depending on the farmers well |
know this is right and that the ofgani- |
zation is a benefit to the industry and |
the farmers, and il supported, will pat |
more money in Southern Maryland in |
the next few years, to the general |
good of all; than the commission form |
of selling will, under its powerless sys-
tenn to help you, put there in the next |
generation to come. 1t has been prov
en- in the greater part of the last two |
centuries, that they could not help the |
producers or be a benefit to the in |
dustry. SO it can easily be cleaned
from this that the organization is not |
for bunch of politicians, or set of |
Directors, or highly paid promotional |
men or manager to put it over. 1t is |
for men depending on the farmer and |
this is every business ana professional
man in his midst and tie farmer himself,
and if they fail to ds> il, hey shape the
future and policy OF the bacco grow
ers Of Maryland and its tax payers and
will havSto abide by their judgment.
A i sa:o&x axo' Cafe