The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-07-26
Joseph PassOnneau and
Bruce Lampson Also
Expressed Views IN
Wheat Growers As
sOciatiOn


large gathering here last Saturday
night at loves Hall, speaking on the
subject of cooperative marketing.
This address was one of series
which he was making in the course of
three day tour Of farm centers in
Northeastern Colorado. The first Of
these talks was at Peetz Thursday
morning, followed by talks at Tiff,
Proctor, Crook, Sedgwick and Ovid.
On Friday Governor Sweet talked at
Wray. Eckley. Yuma, Otis, Platner
and Akron and on Saturday at Genoa,
Arriba, Glagler, Seibert, Stratton and
Burlington.
each of the towns and his talk was
varied only by special references to
matters connected with his admins
tration of the state government and
to events of the day, and when he
paid his respects to q Certain soured
individual who had tried to direct his
state policies"
Large crowds greeted him in each Of
the towns and his talks, especially
when he referred 10 the interests that
sought to harass his administration,
were cheered.
Joseph Passoneau, state director OF
markets, and Bruce Lampson of Ster-
ling, manager of the Colorado Wheat
Growers Association. and others in
terested in the marketing of grains
/ accompanied the governor on his
tour.
C. F. Parker acted as chairman of
the meeting in Julesburg and very
! ably handled the occasion.
Joseph Passonneau and Bruce
Lampson also gave very interesting
talks along the line of cooperative
marketing.
The governors address, which he
delivered at each of the towns, in
about the same words. is, as follows:
sI do not pretend to be an expert in
the matter of cooperative marketing,
but l do pretend to have made some
success in business. The marketing
of farmers products is in no way dif-
ferent from the marketing of any
other product and / am desirous of
bringing into the farmers problem
the same intelligence and the same ex-
perience that l would bring into my
own business.
81 have no other interest of any
kind, and I am devoting myself as
much as possible to this task. My
coming here this evening is just as
much Of pleasure and l feel that it
is more of an opportunity of serving
you than were l here soliciting your
votes. Contracts l made with you
, last fall am expecting to carry out.
"There are only two ways by which
the farmers can get an adequate price
Gov bic This Sc nv, lin, II
ing of production or by cooperation.
l am not urging you to limit produc-
ton, but what is the method by which
you can go on producing to the ex-
tent that your land will produce and
yet do the same thing? Cooperative
marketing and nothing else. 1t is
up to you to do one thing or another.
/ No one believes that the country is
producing more stuff than the world
wants. We export wheat and other
agricultural products and always will.
4 "Did you ever stop to think that
you are the only people in the world
who produce things to sell and have
MT anything to say about what you
are going to sell for? The dealer
fixes the price on your stuff. You
produce it and he fixes the price.
4 When you buy a pair of shoes and
ask how much those shoes are the
dealer sets the price.
"You pay him if you need them:
! But when you have potatoes to sell
and he says he will give you $1.25
you say "take them away" He gives
you the price he wants to, and you
pay the price he asks for.
"You farmers who produce the stuff
4 and have to pay interest on your
mortgages have no more to say as to
what YOU are going to get for that
stuff than the man in the moon. You
pay for everything else the other way.
The man who produces it fixes the
price. Let's turn the tables and get
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