The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-14

&c AZ .SAoc Dack TO the time
;u ~ me Dlsclples or set it ahead lad
minimum" Since either alternative
npossiDie we will have to SETTLE
eoWn TO the cold consideration Of the
lscts as they exist during the wear
OF our Lord 1923. And we are forcl
ed TO fall back on the old truism aIf
you want a thing done right. do i
Yourself. ask no greater hoon
tnan to be in Kennewick when Oh
the producers Of Asparagus. Straw
berries and Early Potatoes are in tho
frame OF mind to apply to their bns-
mess dash of the brains applied hv
Cnas. Schwab when he perfected tho
organization of the Steel Trnst and
pulled himself up to the position Of
dictator of the whole industry. Thare
IS nothing wrong with Charlev's loo;c
put the world has suffered by his
method Of application. Danish the
idea that | would want to see the
farmers in a position to dictate their
every whim to the rest of he world
at large. We realize that it is i'm
possible and at the same time fully
realize that it would not be desirable
as 1t would ultimately react to our
detrlment. But l would dearly en-
JOY sitting on the sidelines and watch
ing Lee Lampson sitting in his lit
Tie office IN our own warehouse and
having control of 100 per cent of
our products, sending out a litho-
graphed photo of crate of our ber-
ries to those who did not want to nut
up a fair price and sending them in
carloads ito those who appreciated a
good thing when it was headed their
way. Oh! boy, wouldn't it be grand
and glorious feeling to think that we
were doing it all ourselves and reap
ing all the benefits instead of lining
the pockets of "Yours for real COOP
Grafton" headliners?
Brother farmers, if you don't think
that every mothers son of US is and
always has paid the bill sooner or
later, let up ponder moment-pull
up the easy chair, light UP the jimmy
pipe-don't need to turn down the
light, for the average farmers kero-
sene lamp is dim enough for retro
spection at any time-and let up drift
to the big city, whence goeth all our
products.
Here observe Produce Row with its
big warehouses, fine offices and stor-
age plants. Look up the owners of
these houses and you will find them
living in palatfal homes in the exclu-
sive sections, spending the winter in
the South and possessed of bank bal
ances that should put them to shame.
Behold, you are sitting with me in
one of their offices in Spokane, with
a well known business man of that
town and our own, and before the in
Productions, hear them say, "Well
Frank, we are doing fine-turned our
capital three times last month"
Gosh! The average farmer would
have to be in trance to even think
of making that turnover once in 3
years! And, brother, where, oh,
where is your winter villa and your
steam yacht and your roll of stocks
and bonds? If you haven't got 'em
these pirate must have taken what
was really yours while you were wide
awake CD looking at them.
Let us quit swallowing their bait,
hook, line and sinker. We would inc
stantly resent any intimation that
we were not as wise as the next man,
yet we have in many instances al
lowed them to get by year in and year
out, swallowing their line of argu
ment, furnishing them with the am
munition that they need to destroy
our organizations and at the same
time lining their pockets at the .ex-
pense of our own, ex-farmers and all
together; then they go behind their
closed doors and laugh at our fool