The Bozeman courier., 1927-01-14

Of industries book and follow it |
closely.
Labor an Example
'sYou say you can not do it, because
there are too many of us farmers.
There are only six million of us.
Less than five years ago, millions Of
people said that labor never IN the
world could exist against capital.
Five years ago, my dear friends, labor
was sitting at the bottom of the lad
der. Today where are they? They
are at the top. They are even above
capital. 1 want to prove it to you.
"GO down into the city of New
York and start to build million dol
lar building and see how quick you
stop unless you consult labor first.
In these labor union towns the small
est kind of building can not be built
without first considering labor.
There are 35 million of them.
"And another thing, they have no
dependents. If you please, refer
right back to the coal strike of last
year. Men actually starved to death
standing cut for their own selves and
hanging to their unions. Will the
farmers do that? No, sir; not in
your lifetime, when on his own farm
the farmer can raise rs per cent of
the stuff he lives on. Yet they will
not cooperate as labor has CO.
operated.
"Then they have gone to work and
excluded from this country pauper
labor from Europe. How did they
get the bill through? Why, by the
volume of votes they had. They
brought enough pressure to bear on
congress, and they passed the bill
and made it a law. Now, we are ask
ing congress to enact a law for US
farmers. Gentlemen, / have got toe
much American blood in me to ask
congress to ever take me on its hip,
If | cannot run my own business, ]
will suffer the consequences. In the
first place, you cannot get legisla-
tiOn. In my lifetime a bill has never
gone through congress that has ever
been of any benefit to the producer
The truth in fabri bill has beer
before congress % times. Has il
+. passed yet? No.. sir. It never swill
: be passed either. Neither will oul
!. farm legislation that is now before
congress ever get through, unless il
goes through with only its gums. I
{ will never get through with any teetl
in it.
. "The power behind marketing toda!
2 is the businessman-the banker, tht
e merchant, the implement man; the!
Y want their money in the fall, ant
? they are going to force the peopl
e who hold this wheat to sell it on tn
: same market that we are now selling
] on, and the price will be just tn
f same.
u Gam I not right? / know / ar
J right, and you will see that this i
a right when it goes through.
s The Only Remedy
III "What is the remedy for US? Their
/ is only one. Cooperate yourself t.
!, gether and market your own stuff
: Take care of your own surplu.
: Just there / want to tell you what m
idea is. Now, do not take it an
$ further than what have said. M
idea is that the only people VIII
should take care of the surplus al
the people who produce it. Do nc
ask Uncle Sam to take care of
for you, because when you do ths
you overload Uncle Sam with te
? times the surplus you now have. S
long as he is buying your stuff an
making it pleasant for you, you wi
just keep on producing it. If yo
get organized and are compelled /
take care of your own surplus, thel
will be an incentive for you not
produce it. And / say this: DiviC
the present surplus of 200 milliC
bushels up among six million farm
ers. and what does it amount to
Seek other channels of marketing Il
surplus. Sell three-fourths of yo,
wheat on the open markets and fee
the other fourth on your farm. Thi
settles the game. You have no SUI
plus. It does not make any diffe
ence to you. If you can sell thre
fourths of your crop for as mus
money as you sold the whole crC
for what do you care what becom
of the surplus you keep at home
Tt is already bought and paid fC
That is business. They all do tn
kind of business. >
'I am here to spread the gosp
of cooperation among the farmer
7 I want to give you a little insight
how to get together. Get togeth
in your own community. Get yo
community meetings to working
your own localities. We have hi
lots of trouble with organization, ju
as Mr.. Bell said. A while ago 7
s started with a big bubble and
burst. Let. US take those things fro
the point of hedging. Let US he'd
+, against them.
s "At the time we undertook to {
ganize the wheat growers Of Il
state, I am sorry to say was \