Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-06-22
To the Farmers of Southern
Maryland.

II is a great pleasure TO see that,
at last, our farmers are beginning to
organize, and news members are be-
organize, and new members are be-
the time has now come that the Or
ganization can no long,sr go on un-
less each and every farmer takes an
active interest in it, just as if it was
his own business, which it most GER
tainly is.
The cultivation Of tobacco means
hard work and expense, from the
seeding of the beds to the shipping
OF tobacco, it is long hours of la
borious work. and the day has ar
rived when the farmers must GER
tainly have a better price for their
tobacco, and there is no hope except
through organization, and by the
completion Of the Maryland Tobac-
co Growers Association, which will
bring about these conditions from
all angles. Do not let this oppor-
tunity, our only salvation, pass with
out struggle to give SOME advan-
tage to our children which we may
not have been able to have received.
1t is the pleading voices OF mothers,
it is the pleading voices of the farm
ers' wives. They are all deeply in
terested and are begging you to join
the Association.
Take little time from your work
and definitely and firmly explain to
those who do not get The. papers or
who are unable to go to the meet
ings, the situation that actually
exists, and the many handicaps
they have endured under the COM
mission form of selling, which is
absolutely powerless to help the to-
bacco industry or the farmer. You
will have no trouble convincing the
few who are out of the Organiza-
ton that it is their only salvation,
and get them to be members now.
! have seen the needs of our farm
ers' homes, have worked among
the poor. Think the matter over
seriously and do not let our long
cherished hope for better bones and
farm conditions pass, as we never
again will have the opportunity pre-
sented that the Association now Of
fers, to handle our many problems.
Join the Association today, do not
put it off, tomorrow may be too late.
The organization of the farmers will
do for us what the organizations of
all other lines of industry have
done.
The plan Of the Organization is
to eliminate the enormous extrava-
giant, expensive marketing Of to-
bacco, in the interest of the farmer,
and the tobacco industry, and to re-
turn to the farmer fair profit for
his labor. The producer under
properly organized system, will take
mis- tobacco from the farm to the
warehouse, where he will see and
know what he is getting from every
grade, and so will the buyer know
that he is getting exactly what he
is buying, which is distinct ad-
vantage to both the farmer and the
tobacco industry.
| earnestly appeal to you, as a
wife and mother, to join the Asso-
citation now, and don't be classed
among the selfish or the ignorant.
When the campaign closes, let every
farmer say I'VE wanted IS per cent
but we have won 100 per cent OF
the farmers" ITO thine own self
be true" let that be our motto, then
the Association will not have any
trouble in getting 100 per cent Of
the $500 tobacco farmers in Mary
land, and then let them remain
loyal to the Association under all
conditions.
A great deal of credit must be
given to the men who are laborine
under number Of difficulties to put
the Maryland Tobacco Growers
Association on firm basis, help
them, they are not working for
themselves, but for you and me.
a =. MR.