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There is an organization in thr
South composed “principally” of the
classes mentioned above, anil a few
of them are trying to make the farm
ers believe that they should belon.u
to their oganization, and at every
little cross road town and railroad sta
tion you can hear the advocates oi
have his organization and why should
has his organization and why should
he go to the bankers, the merchants,
the lawyers, and the manufacturers
for membership? There is no just
reason for this, but there are many
reasons why he shoud not go, which
we will not attempt, to give here, as
they’ have been spoken of before in
the columns of this paper.
We published a squib recently in re
gard to helping the manufacturer. Our
recommendation was that the farmers
cut their demands for fanning imple
ments and vehicles in two, by taking
care of those they have on hand. The
little suggestion is tailing root. It is
easily figured out where the farmer
conies in on a deal that will require
only half the tools and implements
that he has been in the habit of hav
ing to buy, and the shelter from the
weather and a little vaseline and
uucn nit juu.
In many localities the Union needs
somebody to come along and teach
the farmers the value of a manure
pile. There is no institution on the
farm that begins to pay the interest
on the investment, that the manure
•pile does. In fact it costs nothing,
and is a way to cleanliness and bet
ter surroundings, besides doubling
and quadrupling the yields of any and
all crops. Stay by the manure pile
and the poultry yard; they are gold
mines.
If there had been plenty of ware
houses in this country and the cotton
had been allowed to stay In them till
needed by the factory, a Georgia mill
would not have had to go to Liverpool
a few days since to get cotton. The
cotton should go from your country
warehouse direct to the factory, and
when it goes some other way, there is
a lot of expense money paid out that
ought to have gone to the farmer.
No matter if every farmer in the
South was in a Union, and had his
dues paid up a year ahead, and was in
terested in a warehouse, and had vot
ed for resolutions demanding a cer
tain price for cotton, it ail wouldn’t
amount to a row of pins if the cotton
raisers persisted in turning the staple
loose as fast as gathered, at whatever
prices might be offered. Talking
about holding cotton is one thing and
holding cotton is another.—Farmers
Union Journal.
Have you thought out the problem
of better schools for (he country dis
tricts? In some of the states they
have solved it by building better
roads and consolidating the schools.
In many instances as many as half a
dozen schools have been consolidated
into one. The result is that there is
enough money and enojigh material to
make, a regular first-rate graded
school. Think it over, and get you a
split log drag and start the ball to
rolling.
Make your word your bond, and
'make your members live up to the
same standard, and pretty soon the
day of the mortgage will have ended.
When the Farmers Union states
that it is not in politics, it means that
at is ont of the business of whooping
it up for some sort of machine organi
zation. It is not out of the “science
and the art of government,” not by a
long sight. The bulk of the votes in
the United States are carried in the
"Hayseeds’’ vest pocket, and he will
not at all consent to throw it away.
That vote is his guarantee of liberty,
and lie will use it good and strong
ns time and circumstance demands its
use.
Tell the truth about the Union and
what it is NOW able to do for its
members, and then get everlastingly
busy to help make it able to do more.
If your Union is not in a condition
to make a man a better man for mem
bership in it, it is time that you were
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ier busings* men. You can always find tl
tnuou cements of representative basinet*'
u the»e columns—men who uill stand b; r
’•tt statement and price they make.
Newark, . . Arkansas
You Owe
getting busy to make it a better or
ganization. The Union should be the
‘ best thing in the country,” and it is
the fault of the members if it is not
just that thing.
All over the Southwest there has
been an excess of rain right lately.
The roads have been almost impassi
ble in many localities. This should t><
an object lesson to the man who “pays
the freight” for all the nad roads. It
has hardly ever happened that pro
duce brought a higher price on ac
count of tile difficulty of getting it
from the field to the market, yet this
is one of the costly things in the mak
ing of a crop. Get you a split log drag
and get busy after each rain, while the
dirt is in the loblolly condition.
It is sometimes a paying thing to
run a cotton mill or a canning factory
without direct profit. If a bunch of
farmers put up a cannery and get a
market which they never had before,
they are ahead of the game, even if
the cannery or factory never declares
a dividend. It is the final end attained
that should be looked for.
It is wonderful how the demand for
fruit grows with the growth of the
population and education. Twenty
years ago, apples that sell now in the
fall for two dollars a barrel in the field
could have been had for fifty cents or
even less. People are learning that
doctors don't mix much with good or
chards and gardens.
It is as much the duty of the mem
! bers of the Union to teach and insist.
! upon honesty and good morals of all
members as it is to teach the value of
hanging together for all the material
interests of the farmers. After all
has been said and done, the only
thing that will stand the test of eter
nity is the upright man.
The man who raises what he uses,
as largely as he can, is the one who
always has a few dollars to loan to
his less sensible neighbors. He it is
who does not have to pay out all he
makes to go on.
T.et every fanner be a Burbank on
a small scale. The improvement of
breeds, both of the vegetable and ani
mal kingdoms is slow, but always along
progressive lines. Let no day find you
not better off in some way than the
day before.
Don't forget that the first word in
the name of the Union was chosen
after much deliberation, and then its
place was assigned because of its im
portance. You must know, and you
must know to the uttermost finality,
if you would do the wisest and best
thing. Educate, educate all the time!
A diversifier is one who has a vari
ety of crops going all the time. It
takes a smarter and a more industri
ous man to keep half a dozen things
going that it does to keep only one
iron hot, but it is this Sort of man
who gets there with both feet every
time and all the time.
Thank goodness, the idea is begin
ning to percolate that the land in the
odd corner costs as much as that in
the open field, and should be made to
“pay its keep.” There is not an odd
corner that will not afford a good
place for a tree, and a tree is one
of the best things on the place.
The timber dearth that is just be
ginning to he felt in some parts of this
country, is going to he something ter
rible within the lives of manv now liv
ing. Save a tree when you can, and
remember that it is always a good
time t.o plant a tree, though some
times are better than others.
One of the ways to save a good deal
of I he cotton that is now being wasted
between the patch and the mill is to
build a bunch of mills all over the
cotton growing section. Some of the
money lying idle in the banks (shown
by the reports to the Government)
should be used to build some mills.
The day of the open saloon is about
over in this country, and the boys are
coming up clean and clear of,-i.he taint
of the bottle. The railways land the
big corporations, faults though they
have, are to be credited with the
growth of the sentiment that the
drinking man is not the man to be
trusted with important matters.
More Gian ever there is need for a
perfect understanding and co-opera
tion among farmers who farm—the
farmers who farm the farmers already
have all sorts of understandings, and
they have been working to a charm,
but as EDUCATION AND CO-OPER
ATION grow that perfect understand
ing will be of less and less avail to
the farmer who farms the farmers.
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When the nights that have now
started to grow longer get lengthy
enough for the boys to get together
at night to discuss the things that are
for the good of the people, the first
thing that should come up should be
the consolidation of the smaller
schools. In many places this is im
practicable, owing to conditions that
might he easily remedied. To go a
little further is a small matter when
taken in connection with a much bet
ter school. The highest possible grade
of school work is nol possible where
each small community must have a
separate school, with one teacher,
whose range runs from the trundle
bed-beginner to those entering algebra
and Latin. Make good roads and con
solidate the schools.
There is one thing that should be
impressed upon the mind of every hu
man more strongly than any other,
and that is that it is a waste of en
ergy of time to worry. Study not to
lose your head. More lives are worn
out by worry than by all other things
combined—just, worn to a total fraz
zie, ana an Because oi a kick oi train
ing. The steady head and hand soon
d es all the repairing possible, in dis
p er, and it is done with less expen
diture of enorgy that would have been
required to have had a “spell,” which
would have helped nothing at ali.
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