The Bozeman courier., 1927-01-14

propaganda out against our or
ganizatiOn in this state, and / be-
lieve there are men here who got |
some of it. That is the only time
they ever spent a nickle to fight any
farm movement that had ever ex-
listed before, because why? They
knew they would blow up and melt
away, but they knew there is power
IN cooperation, and there was a
chance for US to get together.
Just three years ago our neighbOrs
across the line, the Canadian people,
came down to this country to get
cur recipe for pooling wheat; and
right now, gentlemen, they are just
showing US how to do it. They have
80 per cent Of all the wheat grown
IN those three dOminions in that pool,
and new contracts coming in every
day. If they can do it, why not we?
1t is just because we won't try to do
it; that is it. We stand with this
individualism between us. We must
knock that out. Trust your neighbor
as thyself.
Nov, l do not care how you get
together. That is not my business
to tell you. And / do not mean thai
you are to organize on wheat alone.
| mean that we want to organize on
all these commodities. The women
folks this year in the state Of Mon
tana gave us a pretty good lesson.
They have successfully marketed over
half a million pounds of turkeys
through cooperation. They have been
successful in getting from four to
eight cents a pound more for their
turkeys through the pools than they
otherwise would have got.
Public Fixes Price
"Now, there is a bad feature in
this cooperative marketing. AS the
senator from California said the other
day, it is too bad that the people who
pool and make the price can not get
: little more for their commodities
than the fellow who refuses to come
into the organization. He can gel
just the same as the other fellow
does. You can not help that. You
can not get them all in. We do moi
want them all in. Some fellows are
! better off outside. John D. Rookie
! Teller never in the history of hi,
!. life owned over 81 per cent of thl
!. oil stocks of this country. The othel
: 49 per cent were on the outside re
: ceiving identically the same price fo,
! their commodities that John d. di,
for his. But the 81 per cent con
trolled the price. 1t is the contro
J we are after. I am speaking plainl,
to you. did not talk this way fiv
: : years ago in this movement.
: thought it was maybe a little to
! strong. I thought perhaps wa
] making the picture Of things to
s vivid. But, no, sir. I am going JUS
= as strong as / can with you. TIL
quicker you can pool your stuff an
: : put your hands on it, the quicke
= your price viii be raised. say this
My method is, let the public be tl
barometer for price, fixing. No, ma
,e can fix a price. John D. never fixe
> the price; the public fixed the pric
{. The consuming public fixes yor
$. price. There never was a commodit
" in this country that sold too hig
" 1t is impossible, gentlemen. So lor
" as that commodity will sell, the prit
10 is right on it. If it refuses to SCI
re then it is too high, and it will hav
Of to be lowered. The public will te
it you when it is too high. When the
at turn from buying it, it is time
IN come down, and not before.
So mo man can figure the cost
I'd raising wheat on a farm. It is in
Ill possible. l have heard of the
1u statistics put out on the probob
20 cost in order to get the extra
re cents on the tariff raise. Preside,
TO Coolidge sent a bunch of men o.
de to get some of that informatio
on Some were sent to the Moccas
n station here. They went back wi
}? the report that it cost 81 cents
ne bushel to raise wheat in Montan
ar And I say, they never knew any mo
ed about it than if they had never SCI
at the state. 1t is impossible to fix t
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