The National Co-operator and Texas Farm Journal. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1909 Page: 2 of 16
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NATIONAL CO-OPERATOR AND FARM JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31.
Says Railroad Blocked His Shipmnet
Here is a letter written by a mer-
hant in Oklahoma who takes the lib-
rty of using his own judgment and
ships his cotton to Galveston under
he Farmers’ union plan to Moody &
Co. It is sent to the headquarters of
the union at Fort Worth with the re-
quest that it be published in The Co-
Operator, the sender being J. C. Al-
britten, general agent for the union
at Galveston.
Newby, Okla., March 17.
W. L. Moody & Co.:
Dear Sirs—I shipped you five bales
of cotton about March 5 from Busto,
Okla. This is my shipping point. I
had hard work to get the cotton
shipped, the railroad refusing to ship
it. The buyers at Busto tried to keep
me from shipping. The cotton lay on
the platform about two weeks before
they made up their minds to ship it.
The weighers refused to weigh the
cotton for me, so then I bought four
bales in a lump and had the other
weighed on city scales, so I don’t know
but what I may have drawn more
than the cotton will stand. If so, I
will make it up to you. This is a great
deal better cotton country than around
Newalla, where I came from to this
place. I expect to buy cotton here
next fall and I intend to ship to you,
so I want you to keep me posted next
fall.
I would have written you sooner, but
have been so busy in my store and
be good. We don’t expect to make all
banks and bankers equal by law, but
we do expect to make all banks equally
good, so far as paying their depositors
is concerned.
Mr. Adams, referring to my argu-
ment before the committee at Austin,
said: “Did you ever hear of the Gol-
den Rule being compulsory?” and I
say "no" not in the sense that the law
makes a man live up to it, but the
man who believes in the Golden Rule
tries to live up to it, law or no law,
and it would be a mighty good law,
if it could be enforced, that would
make all men, including even us bank-
ers, live up to it.
JAMES GARITTY.
WANTS MEMBERS TO WAKE UP.
Editor Co-Operator:
Some of our members seem to be
asleep. I wish to remind them that the
day is here for us to be up and doing
with our eyes open, or the other fel-
low will swoop down upon us and put
us out of business. We need blame no
one but ourselves if that comes to
pass. Don’t be silent, brothers, any
longer at Macedonia local; awake and
get busy.
Now is the time to co-operate and
stand for your rights,, so let’s be up
and doing and arrange to attend our
local meetings regularly. Soring time
is here and planting time, and of
course it will be natural to have mem-
bers say: “Well, I ought to go to
the meeting today, but I am so rushed
with work.”
Brethren, that is a mistake, as the
net profit of your farms will be greatly
increased if you will put more brain
work in it and meet with your locals
where we have the opportunity of
training our minds and stand together
others business matters. I appreciate
what you have done for me in the cot-
ton I have shipped you. I remain,
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) C. E. DICKINSON.
This is another instance that goes
far to prove what the union officials
have all along asserted, that there is
a conspiracy organized and in full blast
among cotton buyers, shippers and
railroads to prevent any one who de-
sires to act with or through the union
in handling their cotton. Of course
this is to be expected from those peo-
ple who gamble in cotton, or, rather,
have heretofore, through the bucket
shops, but that the common carriers
should also take a hand can’t be un-
derstood with the knights before us.
Why should the railroads try to ham-
per the moveemnt of union cotton, or
that of their friends? As far as the
union is concerned, in Texas the Farm-
ers’ union has carefully held aloof
heretofore in all efforts to reduce the
passenger fares to 2 cents, taking the
ground that it was more to their in-
terests to get fair freight rates than
a lower passenger rate. If the rail-
roads are anxious for the union to
take a part in the fight for lower pass-
enger rates let them go ahead along
the lines indicated in the instance of
this shipper, and place every impedi-
ment in the way of a man's getting
his cotton to market and they will
get all the fight they want, for the
for the mutual betterment of our
homes and barns. Let us resolve to
put our greatest efforts into our local
meetings and see where we stand at
the end of the year. It is time that
we were weighing ourselves and see
where we raise the beam. I am glad
to say that some of our members arc
taking steps to remove some of the
darkness under which we are traveling.
I say to you members that the spec-
ulator is not to blame for the des-
perate condition of the farmer. It is
the farmer who is to blame. They
have let the speculator trample them
under foot, and now is the time to
wake up and put them out of busi-
ness. If you are a union man stand
up for the cause. Don’t be afraid of
your shadows. Show the world what
you are.
There are some who are constantly
wanting help for themselves who are
never willing to help others. Now,
come together and let’s win the race,
and in the future we can say that
we have fought a good fight.
MAGGIE CROSLIN.
Rising Star, Texas, R. F. D. No. 2.
SAYS FARMERS ARE WAKING
UP.
Editor Co-Operator:
We are gradually waking up from a
good long snooze; you can wake up
the old hayseed when you tramp on
him, and when he does wake up he gets
busy; that is, some of them. When
that big senator from Bowie county in-
troduced that bill that would, if passed,
prohibit the farmer from weighing his
own stuff, why, he woke up with a
bound, and we are still awake here at
New Hope and intend to stay awake
to our own interests hereafter. One
thing, brethren, if we do not look out
for our own interests, the other fel-
low is sure not to do it for us. There
are some people who, when they cast
union has no disposition to sit idly by
with hands complacently folded and
see the rights of their members and
friends slaughtered by corporations for
the sole benefit of stock and cotton
gamblers.
While Moody & Co. are fully able to
take care of themselves, still, as the
men who first came to the union and
extending their hand said: “Come
along, boys, we will help you in the
sale of your cotton and advance money
to help you hold,” the members of the
union feel that when they are attacked
because of the aid they gave the union
in its struggle to live, that it is their
duty to see that the firm has fair play.
The movement being made by the
farmers of Texas and the South for the
right to say what their product shall
bring, independent of all exterior ef-
forts of the exchange and stock gam-
bling concerns, has come to stay, and
while it is not now fighting the rail-
roads specially, still if the roads desire
to have peace they had best steer clear
of any combinations that are organ-
ized to cripple the union or that of its
• friends.
: It would be a good idea for all who
; have been injured in any way siimlarly
: by the roads to send an account in
to the union headquarters so that a
perfect knowledge of what is going on
and the necessary steps be taken to
prevent the future recurrence of such
things.
their vote, say: “Well, I have faith
in the man elected and I will leave it
to him,” but how is it with the other
fellow? He has faith, too, but uses a
little work along with his faith. Breth-
ren, I believe when Christ said “If you
had as much faith as a grain of mus-
tard seed you could say unto the
mountain, be thou removed, and it will
be so.” But I believe that you must
talk to the mountain in the language
of the mountain; that is, take a pick
and shovel and go to work and the
mountain will be removed.
Now, brethren, let us do our part
in this grand old union of ours. I
will tell you how we have inspired new
life in our local. We met and elected
two captains and let them choose up
sides, and the one having the less at-
tendance in a certain time set up the
supper to the union, and every new
member counted ten to the side that
brought in the application, and every
delinquent member brought back
counted five to the side bringing same
back. We have had one meeting since
we chose up and have had five new
members and a good crowd on hand.
Now, brethren, try something of this
kind to get up interest during the dull
season. Let us get together a id talk
diversification and let us try and raise
our living at home and get out of
debt, and then and not till then will
we be a free people.
Let us all keep books against our-
selves and against the other fellow,
too, and see how cheap you can sell
your cotton and have anything left to
pay for your labor. Let us figure the
osses as well as the profits. Don’t
figure like J. F. Dollar of Hereford
did. If we did we would all get rich
too quick. He figured his corn and
maize at so much; fed it to his hogs,
and then figured them at so much. You
see he figured his corn and maize that
he fed those hogs twice. He had no
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it all coming his way. Now, if we all
could figure our income and leave the
output, it makes the profits look like
30 cents to me. How is it with you,
brothers? '
Now, brothers, I want to speak of
our warehouses. Let us stand by them
for the warehouse is a great thorn in
the flesh, and if our enemies can get
the farmers to sit down on them they
will have won the victory, while if the
farmers stand fast the warehouse will
prove a blessing to us some day, and
it will not be long coming. When the
farmer can sell everything he raises
through this warehouse then he will
appreciate the benefits.
Let us reason together and get out of
the old ruts. We know that when our
corn cribs are filled and our smoke
house is at home and not in the North,
and there is a good garden and plenty
of yellow-legged chickens and a good
orchard and berry patches we can soon
get out of the old rut.
With best wishes for The Co-Oper-
ator and its editors, I am, fraternally,
D. A. HADDICK.
New Hope, Freestone county, Texas.
PIGEON LOCAL GROWING.
Editor Co-Operator:
Pigeon local No. 3964 is still alive
and we are getting some new members.
Our enrollment stands: 41 male and
nine female members.
The Erath county union meets with
us on April 7. All locals are requested
to send a full delegation, as Brother
Neill has promised to come and be
with us then. There will be a public
entertainment at night and everybody
is invited to attend and hear Brother
Neill at 7:30 that night, and see the
great play that will be given by the
Pigeon team. Fraternally,
H. H. RAWLINGS.
Chairman Executive Committee.
Pigeon local No. 3964.
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Grant, A. W. The National Co-operator and Texas Farm Journal. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1909, newspaper, March 31, 1909; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636875/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .