The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-12-18

chance we get to keep that little, t
lead, cold past" upon its throne. And '
so, nc wonder, we are the rag tag and y
bobtail of society. No wonder we get I
only thirty per cent of the consumers
dollars. No wonder we are becoming
wanderers upon the face of the earth.
Nc wonder our farms are foreclOsed
away from US and the land is taken
over bv a tenant class. Fer instead
of taking the initiative and building
and operating and planning our own
system we meekly fold our hands and
say: "the past is good enough for
US
ct CAN'T
BE DONE"
Now what do the commercial and
banking class do? Dig up dead things |
of the past and keep their Organlza-
lions forever in the past? Not on
YOUR lives! The National Chamber of
Commerce which dictates our laws
and binds us all to its chariots has
reorganized several times in the last
few years. So have the different
states bodies. SO have the different
bankers associations. They get the
. keenest and ablest men they can en-
ploy and build and rebuild their Orga-
nizatiOn continually, keeping them up
to date, plan new features that will
enable them to better control the pro-
ducers in their favor-an0 make
them the greatest and most powerful
influences in the land. Yet when we
producers want to function for our
class and our interest, instead of
building a modern machine made in
, this dav of great ability in crganiza-
ticn: instead of building and develop
ing such a machine, we are so lazy
: and backward we say: ooh no use
irving to create machine of our
own; we can't organize. anything
what's the use!" We take any ole
organization which functioned in the
I lone ago-the dead hand CT the past
. something like the cid cradle IL
+ cutting grain, or the OLD horse bugg!
= to travel with. and with such old
1 broken, Observation-Disclosures We
hicle as that, think we can organic
and train ourselves to function IN TIN
great today 1t can't be done friends
IS FARMERS
at MUST PLAN
ae Farmers as a rule are vlcsilns @
j. their own inertia along this line
d. action, aided by propaganda whic
at soOthes them to sleep while the II
NJ terests of the proft-taking class
10 through their pockets and rifle all
al their possessions.
to So. friends, that's the one gre;
i'm lesson that we must learn: that ar
.ot organization of the past, however
/" functioned in the long ago, cann
H. and viii not function. You, M
Tn Farmer, and you alone, must g
IN around some table in a dingy cOmml
nd tee room and think and think; a.
- plan and plan; and write and writ
md and then try it out and try out agal
mo then rewrite and replan; and spe
time and money until by trials a
working functions YOU know III
YOU have a working plan for a gre
.fe- movement of your class. Bankers
on not building farmers organizations
,e0v only as a will o. the wisp to ma
YOU subservient tools Of the mon'
in ioaning class. Commercial men
.k's not building your vlT1le farm o[!
i'll nizations-Onlv as some bell welt
be sheep to lead you to the slaugh
i+rv willingly. You MUST create out
and YOUR OWN MIND and ntelhge
he This plan which will be a direct
ems and guiding movement for farmer
cta- and Mr.. Farmer it is you and
ITO alone who must do this.
nch Grange OUTLINED Usefulness,
one Now let us examine some farm
lded CARNATIONS and movements o.
on,e mast. Farmers say so often that I
con- all failed-all were lOst-none dld
lsist good for the farmer and lou n
with such stuff. Let's examine II TINS
pub true.
# is First came the Grange, organ
an in the late sixties, 1t became a 9
for cooperative movement, saved ia
spo- ers millions of dollars, and oe
than that showed them they could
ganiZe. 1t later came under the
oanv trol of the commercial classes,
dis became a small side show, or com
and tee of the national republican m
This inc. Tt is now gone as far as
1t;on good for the producing class Is
thn cerned. It has lived its day. DO
oct rood for farmers? Yes, an INN
What amount. And only when 1t pee
tions antedated. when its form CT organ
tito nand its old laws became outV
zens. has it vanished as it should have
eater years ago. ~ 80
& are Will we ever learn that all oI'
lined cations are made for one purpose
Mace tbat purpose is enc IN plain sig
hairs the ORGANIZERS of the day IN VIM
on at was organized-and when that 9
> any rone THE USEFULNESS OF 1
ORGANIZATION is DONE al
ebouId be Immediately scrapped.
when we don't scrap them as
are would an old self-binder or othel
.aoan- chine, the selfish interests take
S we over, put on a little pant ah9 !
mon nish them up and use them as
q will for the unsuspecting producer.
man Equity. Farmers Union and "
,ritten growers ,+;o,-
Then came other orgamzaTTlor
and doing great good in their Gay
Y DAYS place: Farmers Union, EQUITY
North ers. Wheat Associations Far4lel
liver lIiance. Populist party and Non
aw the ean League. All of them tuhc
adj to riobt we'll in their day and plae
bridge were of a transltory O nS1IIS :
ed to EACH ONE FULLY w ~! ,,1o,,.
len be- PRECEDING one had plan.
lmp on functions in advance OF pr
down units. Each one was a step IN
! stone or ability in planning and deve
III we class organizations. Eacl on'
time. ms up a step. Each one !otI !
follow ter trained fer mixing II 1Ills !,
soldiers TODAY with other classes ana }
April ing our interests, and prepa1ITll
,ousand for the next step. Lost! NO