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SOUTHERN MERCURY AND FARMERS UNION PASSWORD.
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United with
FARMERS UNION PA8BWORD.
Issued Weekly
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
Entered at the Dallas, Texas, postoffice as mall mat-
ter of the second class.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
by the
FARMERS UNION PUBLISHING CO.
Main Office, 27 Gaston Building. 213-215 Commerce
St. (Corner Lamar).
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all communications, unci make all drafts, money omer ,
etc., pay a bl« ♦
MILTON PARK, Manager, Dallas, Texas.
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ity of our subscribers prefer not to have their Bunscnp-
tlons interrupted and their files broken in case they rail
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year. Instructions for discontinuance will receive atten-
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Of address must give the OLD as well as tho NEW ad-
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your subscription will expire. Tnus, .Ian—07 means that
payment has been received to January. 1907, including
the last issue of December, 1906. Two weeks are required
after money has been received before tho date on wrapper
can be changed.
We take pleasure in correcting any and all errors. Don't
fail to give full particulars, dates, amounts, etc., when
making a complaint.. Write names plainly. This will re-
duce mistakes to the minimum. Our looai agents are re-
quested to ask their Postmaster to inform us of any
, change of address or any copy not taken out. Secretaries
should write us for special terms to agents.
A STRICTLY FARMERS' ORQANJ'/ATION.
Torn Watson, the distinguished Georgian who ad-
dressed the Georgia Farmers' Union last, month at
their meeting held in Atlanta, struck the keynote of
success when, in the course of his address, he said :
"In the first place, you must organize a strictly
Farmers' Union. Every other interest is organized
in just that way. At present, as compared to the or-
ganizations which represent other interests, you arc a
mob at the. mercy of a disciplined army. Labor, as
eueh, has its federation. The farmer has not been in-
vited to enter it. The hanker has not been invited to
The railroad boss might knock lonjj and loud before
lie got in. In like manner, the banks have their or-
ganizations. How many farmers have they taken into
enter it. Tho manufacturer is not an expected guest,
them? Don't you think it n very cheeky thing for
the bankers to be taking the lead of the cotton grow-
ers' organization when they themselves confine their
organization to hankers? The manufacturers have
their organization. Why should not some of you
farmers be taken into the bankers' and manufactur-
ers' associations? And why should not they put you
lip as speaker at their national conventions, to tell
them how to manage their business?
"Systematize your buying and selling. Bring into
the business the co-operation principle which lias
worked such wonders in certain parts of Kurope. Ijet
each buyer and each seller among the farmers have
behind him the strength of all the buyers and ail the
tellers. Learn to move with precision, like soldiers
of an army marching under uniform orders to a com-
mon objective, rather than as detached individuals
moving without plan or purpose, never accomplish-
ing what would be so easily done if you would do
just as the other classes have done—organize along
the line of class interest."
Tom Watson is one of the largest cotton growers
in Georgia. He is not a member of the Farmers'
Union. Jlis profession is law—and he sticks to it.
He does not seek membership in an organization
which should be composed, as he says, "strictly of
farmers." The man who owns a Johnson grass pas-
ture, or who leases out his lands to others, though he
may derive his principal revenue therefrom, is not
such a farmer as Mr. Watson has in mind. A farmer
is a man who lives on a farm and makes farming his
chief occupation. Such, and such only, should be
members of the Farmers' Union.
00 SLOW ON INCREASING ACREAGE.
This paragraph from the Nacogdoches l'laindealer
Contains no new idea, but it does contain truths
which bear frequent repetition:
"Go slow on increasing the cotton acreage for
1907. Get up early and work late, preparing the land
for an increased acreage in corn, oats, sorghum, peas,
hay, peanuts, potatoes and other food supply crops.
'Let the South raise her own 'hog and hominy.' The
home-raised hog is the greatest mortgage lifter on
earth for the cotton grower. Warehouses and the hank
don't help much the poor man who owes his crop for
supplies before it has been gathered. Got right first
at home and the world can be brought to your feet.
Diversify'and make the farm independent of the
credit supply merchant."
True, diversification alone will not relieve our in-
dustrial ills. It is also true that, from a broad stand-
point, under suitable laws, it would not be neces-
sary for any section to devote much attontion to crops
for which other sections are better adapted. But, as
a practical proposition of the present, the important
thing, individually, is for the farmer to get out of
debt, and only by raising his own living can he, as a
rule, do this.
N. 1 < '0GD0CHB8 WILL MA KE GOOD.
The matter of erecting a cotton warehouse in
Nacogdoches must be taken up light away by the
Farmers' Union, and the business men of the town
will be sleeping while a golden opportunity is slip-
ping by if they fail to step to the front and give the
Union their moral support and financial asi-itance.
Many towns in Texas not as large ami wealthy as
Nacogdoches have in the past year given oik? ta three
thousand dollars to be used by the Union in .con-
structing a warehouse, and not one of these ware-
houses has proven to be a failure.—Nacogdoches
l'laindealer.
The Mercury-Password cannot believe that the
brethren of Nacogdoches will allow this season to
pass away without providing themselves with a cot-
ton warehouse. They are progressive, comparatively
prosperous, as a rule, and strong in the Union faith—•
hundreds of them. Ami uow they must, as the l'lain-
dealer says—they must—prove their faith by their
works and get abreast of the times in u business way
by providing adequate facilities for taking care of the
selling end as well as the producing end. The Mer-
cury-I'assword confidently predicts that a commodi-
ous Union warehouse will be established in Nacog-
doches ere the cotton season opens. It is now up to
the brethren of that county to see to it that our confi-
dence in their zeal, energy and business enterprise is
not misplaced.
A BLOW AT FREE SPEECH.
Under the above caption the San Francisco Star
indulges in timely criticisms, some of which would
apply with equal force to men and measures at our
state eapitol. The docerines herein so vigorously
and clearly enunciated The Star oannot"be proclaimed
too strenuously, for freedom of speech and press are
fundamentals which must be jealously protected and
preserved at any cost. Denial of free speech is in-
finitely worse than abuse of free speech.
Savs The Star: "The legislators who so disgraced
themselves on their 'journey' (at so much per mile)
to attend the funeral of Assemblyman Iturke, in Oak-
land, were the very same men who voted to deny
former Congressman Edward J. Livernasli, a news-
paper man, all the 'privileges' of the august tribunal
to which they were elected, respectively, by their
gullible or culpable 'constituents,' because, forsooth,
Uivernash had publicly criticised them.
"The action of these legislators was a blow at free
speech and free press, expressly guaranteed by the
Constitution of the State as well as by the Constitu-
tion of the United States.
"Who and what are the legislators of California?
Some of them claim to be so 'respectable' as to be
above criticism, but most of them are beneath con-
tempt. as has already been proven bv their own acts.
Mr. Livernasli, or any other citizen, has tho right to
attend their sessions—to see and hear everything, and
to say just what he pleases—lieing responsible, how-
ever, for any abuse of that right.
"Holiest legislators could afford to ignore the
statements, however, unjust, of any critic; they cer-
tainly would not trv to 'muzzle' him."
AN OBJECT. LESSON.
Arkansas had but very few union warehouses last
season, but it is safe to say that the union brethren
of that state will erect a goodly number before tho
next cotton season. The benefits oecruing from thoso
erec ted in time last season are such as to give a de-
cided impetus to the warehouse movement in Arkan-
sas.
At alma, for instance, the manager, W. A. Cole,
a few months since sold a block of (>00 bales at an
average, it is claimed, of $7.00 per bale over and above
what cotton was selling for on the streets of that
town that dav or a net saving of $4,300 to the farm-
ers on the lot. The other day Iiro. Cole made another
sale, a lot of 1.00 hales, and assisted Manager Du-
lany in the sale of 900 bales from the union ware-
house- at Charleston, both lots selling at 10.50 all
around. It is stated that this was $5.00 per bale above
the best price on the streets, hence on these 1,900
bales the union saved the little sum of $9,600. And
yet there are men—farmers—who oppose the union
and oppose the warehouse system!
Build warehouses, systematize your business; get
in line with modern progress; strive to attain econo-
mic independence.
An article ina recent issue of Everybody's Maga-
zine states that 500,000 people are annually killed
or wounded by accident in industrial pursuits. This
exceeds the* total casualties of the Russo-Japanese
war. A large per cent, perhaps fifty per cent, were
preventable. Mut these railways are conducted solely
ior dividends, tor the profit of the directors and stock-
holders. And these men are our "best people," you
and 1 are held up as exemplors for the rising genera-
tion to imitate. Alas, how cheap is human life, how
dear is money!
With about two dozen organizers in the field,
Kansas will have a state union before many moons.
cone at a more propitious season. In
the matter of its praiseworthy mission
the llelds are white unto the harvest.
But the Farmers' Union is a secret
organization! Yes; that is true, and
in that very fact rests its power for
good. Every man, who knows any-
thing of fraternal orders, knows that
the element of seereey and of solemn
obligation is the one thing that guar-
antees unity and singienus:-) of high
purpose, in the meetings of the
Union, as in a lodge, members come to
understand, to appreciate, to respect
and to Jove one another.
Brethren are drawn closer to each
other when the doors are closed, the
world shut out. and the exercises of
the hour entered upon with gladness
of heart.
The entire membership of the Farm-
ers' Union is on the alert. The mis-
fortunes, which were visited upon the
Orange and the Alliance at the South,
wil not be forgotten by I lie brethren
of the new order.
A more glorious mission never wait-
ed upon the consecrated Joyalty of any
organization of men than that which
appeals to the best energies and the
devotion of every member of the Na-
tional Farmers' Co-operative and Edu-
cational Union. This, itself, will con-
stitute an irresistible appeal to every
member to live up to the principles of
thiH noble order every day and every
hour.
One of the highest functions of the
order is that which pertains to educa-
tion and co-operation. These two
agencies are interdependent.
Through carefully prepared litera-
ture—booklets or tracts, full of reli-
able information that will add to every
member's stock of knowledge on sub-
jects which relate to his chosen pur-
suit and information that will make
him better and a more efficient citi-
zen—and by lectures, these two agen-
les can be utilized to their fullest ca-
pacity.
Here is to the Farmers' Union! May
it. measure up to the high standard of
usefulness it has set for itself.
MARTIN V. CALVIN.
Experiment, Ga.
HE MADE FARMING PAY.
The Kansas City Htar tells of an
Oklahoma farmer who has mude farm-
in* pay:
"Vincent Anderson lived In a "dug-
out" In Oklahoma seventeen years ago
and his food was cornbread and
molasses.
"Now he owns 240 acres of fertile
land, has an orchard of 800 apple trees
and 3,000 peach trees, makes $5,000 In
farming each year and Is worth (80.000.
"Thousands of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory farmers have just as good soil
as I have, but I guess they work too
much \\ Ith their hands and not enough
with their heads," said Mr. Anderson.
"Inarming Is fast becoming an exact
science, and the sooner we all learn this
the better it will be for us. I have
240 acres, situated about fourteen
miles southwest of Oklahoma City, and
my 800 apple trios and 8.000 peach
trees net about $2,000 per annum. This
year I raised about 6,000 bushels of corn
and a lot of cotton, that produced $80
tion and quotations, together with the
arbitration committee on classifica-
tion, which jointly constitute the re-
vision committee, shall meet, canvass
the situation thoroughly, and muke
such changes in spot grade quotations
as may be found necessary to make
the quotations and actual trade condi-
tions correspond. There is no ele-
ment of self-perpetuation In either
committee, for new members are ap-
pointed each month.
"Thus environed, the spectacular
encounters the greatest possible dif-
ficulty when be attempts to rig the
New Orleans cotton market. If fu-
tures climb above spots, the specu-
lative "short" does not have to de-
pend upon any particular grade that
suits his convenience with equal, or
rather approximately equal advantage.
Should futures fall unwarrantably law
the speculative "long" may demand
the cotton, confident in the knowledge
that the goods he will obtain will
meet the requirements of some busy
per acre. This Is my new kind, which j spjnner. short-lived errors of judg-
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
Jan. Butler, member of the "Nation-
al" .Executive Committee of the F. E.
and C. U. of A. from Kansas asks a
pertinent question in a late number of
the Farmers' Advocate of Topeka,
Kas. In discussing the propriety of
an "omnium gatherum" organization,
he asks:
"How can an organization that ad-
mits overybody to membership be just-
ly called a farmers' organization? With
lawyers, who may be In the employ of
trusts and combinations as members,
and bucket shop operators, gamblers
and speculators eligible to membership
as well as merchants and bankers who
may be In combines that fleece the
producers, what, chance would the
farmers have through such an organ-
ization to secure equity or throttle tho
pools and combines that plunder them?
• * •
"The bucket shops, the speculators,
p.ool and other trade and trust combi-
nations do not admit "farmers as mem-
bers. They are a solid phalanx and act
as one man.
"Imagine farmers trying to act In the
same way with all these elements aud
their attorneys on the inside—members
of the same organization. What can
the farmers do under such conditions?
.Any effort to enforce their rights or
secure equity for themselves would be
throttled and the organization torn into
shreds."
This is just what the Mercury-Pass-
word lias been contending for—an or-
ganization of actual farmers.
We do not think it safe or advisable
that anyone should be allowed mem-
bership in the Farmers' Union but act-
ual farmers.
But says someone: What are you
going to do with those who are not
actual farmers who are already mem-
bers in full fellowship in the Union?
Our answer Is, change the eligibility
clause of our constitution so as to re-
strict the membership to actual farm-
ers—to those who live on the farm—
whose chief support is from their own
farm—whose main business is farming.
If editors of newspapers, schoolteach-
ers, preachers, or others who are in
Sympathy with the farmers, want to
help In the work of the Union, have a
provision in the constitution allowing
such to become auxiliary or honorary
members, but do not allow such to hold
any office in the Union—act as dele-
gate to any Union meeting, or vote on
any proposition in the organization.
Such a course of action will bring
about a solution of the vexed question
now threatening to destroy the pres-
ent organization.
FARMERS TO THE FRONT.
Throughout the South and West
farmers are uniting with either tho
National Farmers' Co-operative and
Educational Union or with the Grange.
Just after the civil war the Grange
had an effective organization in every
County in the Southern States, as well
ta in the Northern StateB, and was do-
ing a vast deal of good.
At an hour when the organization
•eemed to be strongest and the gen-
eral membership most enthusiastic,
designing men, who had worked their
fray into the order, introduced parti
•an politics Into quite every Grange.
This was done, of course, for their
own behoof. Those men had but one
abject in view when they sought and
Obtained entrance into the order, i. e.,
their political advancement. They ac-
complished their purpose. Their sue-
cess wu the death of the Grange in
the Sooth.
North, the brethren were more for-
tunate, and thoy have preserved their
«re t and powerful organization in-
tact, till this day. North, the Grange
itself felt before State legls-
" the national oongress, to
benefit of the farmers.
The death Of th* Orange South, dft
•act, uu tnu
Ina made iti
latum and
the great be
eouraged the farmers, and many years
elapsed before they could be aroused
to the extent of attempting another
organization.
By and by, tho Farmers' Alliance
sprung into existence. It was born a
giant. Its tenets and purposes were
of tho highest order. At tho very first
national convention, the membership,
composed exclusively of farmers, pro-
jected a declaration of principles that
challenged the admiration of all fair-
minded men. As by inspiration, that
convention diagnosed the disease of
the body politic.
Tho order at once arranged a sys-
tematic plan by which the member-
ship was thoroughly informed as to
the evils of the times as represented
by the financial policy and the tariff
legislation of the country.
No organization known to the whole
Union of States was ever so thorough-
ly Informed and otherwise equipped
for the accomplishment of the reforms
which the best Interests of the farmers
especially and the people generally de-
manded should be instituted and estab-
lished.
The Alliance wrought wonders, edu-
cationally, throughout the country dis-
tricts. There waa not aa Alliance
of average intelligence who could not
give a clear und convincing reason for
the hope that was in him.
The Alliance inaugurated and push-
ed to success many marvelous cam-
paigns in the interest of genuine re-
form. It triumphed over the jute t rust
und was in tho very plenitude of its
influence and power when Delilah—
partisan politics—stripped It of Its
strength.
It was a repetition of the mournful
story of the Grange.
Again Southern farmers were made
disconsolate—so terribly discouraged
that thousands declared they would
never have any share in the similar
organization.
Years elapsed, when the Farmers'
Cooperative and Educational Union
was organized. By degrees It has won
upon the confidence of the tillers of
the soil, and today it is a marvel of
power, standing for the high, but rea-
sonable, demands of the Grange and
Alliance. The Fanners' Union giveB
promise of a career Of unexampled
usefulness.
The farmers have taken henrt and
are flocking by thousands and thou-
sands to this new and noble order.
Th* Farmers' Union could not have
Have you read that program for Lo-
cal Union exercises during the present
year. Just sent out by President Cal-
vin? It Is full of good suggestions, and
points out how you can make every
meeting interesting and attractive. A
copy has been sent to every Local sec-
retary in Texas, and should be put Into
operation right away. Make the Local
meetings Interesting by lively discus-
sions on Important topics, good music
and recitations, and last and best, by
having a nice lunch or dinner on the
grounds, and you will never complain
about attendance. Recreation is neces-
sary. and this will provide all you will
need.
State President E. A. Calvin return-
ed home Sunday, after spending two
days at Austin and Houston. Ho filled
six or seven appointments, and or-
ganised one Local Union In Travis
County, besides looking after legis-
lative matters at Austin, and the cot-
ton warehouse business at Houston.
President Calvin is a very busy man.
The Union Is doing well in this part
of the county. We have about gotten
enough money to build us a warehouse
at Bentley. We will have it ready for
the fall crop. We mean business, and
propose to act wisely In what we have
undertaken. We all like The Mercury-
Password, and wish It much success.
WILLIE FUTRELL.
Pollock, La.
is stormproof and a great producer, f
crossed seed from India and other for-
eign countries, and these seeds arc
worth their weight In gold.
"I have sixteen acres of alfalfa, which
I cut five times every year: besides I
pasture it with 100 head of hogs and
ubout fifty head of cattle and horses. I
find alfalfa a most valuable hay, and
it would be almost impossible to get
along without it.
"I think American farmers should be
very happy and contented, but they are
not always so, because we all have an
idea that town life is more attractive,
and many learn their mistake when it
Is too late. As for mo, I prefer the
farm, and I manage to make it pay by
strict application and hard work. The
farm Is where one can find real pleas-
ure and solid comfort." •
MISSOURI NOTES.
Bro. H. M. Ray, state organizer for
Missouri, has issued a call for a dele-
gated convention at West Plains,
March 20-22 to organize a Slate Union
and perfect all the necessary details
thereto.
Each county organization will be al-
lowed ten representatives and one addi-
tional for every 100 male members over
7.000. Locals in unorganized counties
will be allowed one representative
each.
Dunklin County has three Union
gins and the number will be doubled
by next season. We are planning to
do business for ourselves all along the
line.
ment on the part of a quotation com'
mittee may temporarily favor one fac-
tion or the other, but such errors
cannot, in this market, as has been
shown above, perpetuate an iniquity
*on the cotton trade.
"Since there is desLined to be spec-
ulation in most everything of value in
which the human race has any inter-
est until the earth shall have become
dead and lifeless as the moon, great-
er popular knowledge of potential con-
ditions and less strict adherence to
theories might prove generally bene-
ficial to mankind.
"Just now the cotton market Is a
pretty good thing for the farmer and
the manufacturer, but is lacking in
come essential features from the view-
point of the speculator. A turn-about
will come some day. for the pendulum
must swing in equal distance in both
directions. Meauwhile the real se-
cret of success lies in fathoming the
mysteries surrounding the hidden cen-
ter of gravity that balances the thing
man calls trade.
"In the interim the New Orleans
Exchange may well say. with the no-
ble Dane, 'Let the galled jade wince,
our withers are unwrung.' "
NATIONOIL ODE.
I.
My Texas once so free,
With gallant chivalry
Deep now thy woe.
Land where thy patriots died,
Now cursed by Bailey's pride,
From plain to mountain side
Reigns "COAL OIL JOE."
II.
My Country fair to see.
What hast come over thee,
This curse to bear?
Let manhood blush to own
The star 'twas once our own,
But now Joe Bailey's throne,
The trusts to share.
III.
Let music change to sighs.
When we no longer prize
Thy proud fair name.
■ I love thu few and brave.
Who their best service gave
And fought each despot knave
To hide thy shane.
IV.
Dear Texas, shall it be.
That t-houi't on bended knee
Serve this vile power?
Ood's sovereign arm invoke.
And with one mighty stroke
Cast off this Tyrant's yoke,
This very hour.
LET'S PRESERVE THE UNION.
Whereas, there seems to be confusion
in some quarters about our State and
National Unions, and
Whereas, we believe such agitation
is injurous and hurtful to the Farmers
Union, and
Whereas, we have confidence in the
integrity and lofty patriotism of our
State officials; be it it
Resolved, therefore, that we heartily
endorse the stand taken by our State
officials for harmony and the preserva-
tion of the Union.
2nd. That we condemn any further
agitation in regard to State and Na-
tional Union and ask all good Union
men Texas to strike hands and help to
make the Farmers Union a power for
good and a blessing to down troden
humanity."
Ordered published in Mercury-Pass-
word. J. j. RHONE, Sec.
Clairette, Texas.
The "green-bug" is playing havoc with
the small grain—wheat and oats—in
North Texas, particularly in Grayson
and adjoining counties. Our brethren
j in those counties are badly beset as to
what is best to do. With the wheat and
oat crop destroyed and the strong prob-
ablity of the chinch bug, the boll weevil
showing up early in large numbers be-
cause of the exceedingly mild winter,
the outlook for a bountiful crop is not
bright.
Our suggestion is to reduce your
acreage in staple corps and raise all
kinds of stuff you can which you will
need to feed yourself and family. Cul-
tivate well all the land you put in, co-
operate with your brethren, both in
buying and selling, and you will come
out ahead, regardless of consequences.
Clarett Local wants the scholastic
a#e in public schools of Texas'changed
to read from "7 to 21 years."
SPECIAL CLU BLIST.
We will send the Mercury-Password
and either of the following papers tor
one year for $1.50:
Dalas Semi-Weekly News.
Tom Watson's Weekly Jeffersonlan.
St.. Louis Globe-Democrat.
St. Louis Republic.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
New York Sun.
For $2.50 we will send the Mercury-
Password and either of the following
monthlies:
Tom Watson's Jeffersonlan.
Everybody's Magazine.
The Delineator.
Cosmopolitan.
Tom Watson spoke to 1500 Farmer^
Union people at Jackson, Miss., on Feb
5 and had a regular ovation at the close
of his address.
INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS, CORPO-
RATE SUCCESS, CO-OPERA-
TIVE SUCCESS.
Tom Watson, though not a member
of the Farmers' Union, Is one of its
strongest advocates, and gives a page
or two each wee't In his Weeklv Jeffer-
sonlan t« d'somsion "f questions bear-
ing on the farmers' movement.
THE IDEAL COTTON CONTRACT.
The widespread demand for reform
in the New York cotton contract ap-
pears to be rapidly gathering cumu-
lative force in the cotton-growing
States for the reason the producer is
becoming educated. The New York
contract ia so framed that the specu-
lative "short" can depress vaiues
through the tender of undesirable cot-
ton above its worth in the spot mar-
ket. In illustrating the difference
between the New York and New Or-
leans contracts, and in pointing out
the ideal contract, the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, a recognized author-
ity on cotton market affairs, says:
"On the first Friday of this month,
as is the case every month, the quo-
tations on all New Orleans spot grade
were revised.
"Sweeping through the revision
was ranging from a reduction of
ll-16c to low ordinary, 3-16 on ordi-
nary and good ordinary, and l-8c on
low middling, to an increase of 7-16c
on the two highest grades, leaving
middling and good middling unchang-
ed, the revision committee acted
merely in its capacity of sivpreme
judge of the daily work of its subordi-
nate body, the committee on classi-
fication and quotations. And the re-
sult of its efforts indicates clearly
enough the wisdom of the New Or-
leans Cotton Exchange in providing
an effective method of checking up
the spot grade differences at fre-
quent Intervals in order that any er-
rors that may have crept into the cur-
rent w.ork of standing committees may
be corrected.
"New Orleans being a spot market,
official quotations for all the grades
traded in are arrived at by referring
the entire question back to the true
source of genuine values, the relation
of demand to supply. Any other
course would be manifestly unfair,
either to the buyer or t<\ the seller,
and the members of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange acted up this know!
edge when they drafted the rules un-
der which their committees operate.
"These rules provide that the com-
mittee on classification and quota-
tions shall consist of five members
who are to be appointed monthly by
the board of directors, and whose
duty It shall be to furnish dally quo-
tations of the different grades of cot-
ton as sold in average lists, not vary-
ing more than one full grade, based
on the standards of the New Orleans
market, as adopted by the New Or-
leans Cotton Exchange, which quota-
tions are to be posted prominently in
the Exchange rooms. Thus the grade
quotations, or grade "differences," as
they are technically called, are ex-
pected to be changed as frequently
as justified by developments In the
actual cotton market. As a precau-
tionary measure, however, and in or-
der to reduce the chance of error to
a minimum, the rules also provide that
on the first Friday of each and every
month the committee of chuniflca-
The "Farmers' Union" of Illinois, In-
diana and Missouri, an independent or-
ganization numbering about 25,000,
was merged into the Farmers' Educa-
tional and Co-operative Union of Amer-
ica at a meeting he!d for that purpose,
at Marion, Ind., on the 22nd ult, thus
consummating the negotiations which
had been pending for some months
past. A meeting will be held at Ma-
rion, III., March 27th to reorganize the
Illinois State Union. Tho Locals of
the Illinois-Indiana organization are to
receive charters from the F. E. and C.
U. of A. without charge.
At the meeting of the Faulkner
County Union of Arkansas, held with
Ena Local, with twenty Locals rep-
resented, resolutions prevailed fa-
voring the Macon bill in ref-
erence to future gambling, and
recommending their warehouse
committee to investigate the re-
spective claims of the different towns
in the county with a .view of locating
a Union warehouse at the best avail-
able point. Next meeting, Greenbrier,
in April next.
With a score of live salaried organ
izers in the Kansas field, the Sunflow-
er State will soon develop a strong
Farmers' Union movement.
President Paris Henderson of Osage
County, Kansas, has shipped in three
cars of flour at a saving (to the mem-
bership) of a bout sixty dollars per
car, reports the Farmers' Advocate.
McDonald County Union met at
White Rock, Mo., on the 26th ult., and
elected officers for the year as fol-
lows: J. P. Haberthur, president; L.
E. Nutting, vice-president; Jno. W.
Hunt, secretary-treasurer; C. J. Ha-
berthier, business agent. The next
meeting will be held with Mill Creek
Local, near Noel.
The Tttlly Mercantile Company of
Eufaula, I. T., has donated a fino, large
lot to the Farmers' Union, on which it
is proposed to erect a warehouse 100s
100 feet, ready for the next crops. The
lot Is just opposite the Eufaula Gin-
ning and Milling Company's buildings
and Is just what the Union needed. It
is near to the two gins and the oil
mill; also close to the Missouri, Kan-
-sas and Texas Railway track.
Hubbard City Local, at Its last meet-
ing, adopted formal resolutions against
dealing In cotton futures, requested
that thetr representative in the Thir-
tieth legislature take such action as
will secure the enactment of a law
prohibiting same.
Lands which brought $75 per acre
two years ago in Collin County can now
be bought for $50 Because of the con-
tinued ravages of the crop pests, green
bugs, boll weevils, chinch bugs, etc.
Parker County Truck Growers' Asso-
ciation will meet at Weatherford Feb.
23. It is important that every member
be present at the next meeting, as def-
inite arrangements will then be made
for handling the crop of this season.
Only One "BROMO QUININE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine.
Similarly named remedies sometimes
deceive. The first and original Cold
Tablet Is a WHITE PACKAGE with
black and red lettering, and bears the
signature of EL W. GROVE. 26c.
All had its birth In the mind. It may
have originated in our own, or we may
have copied or borrowed it from some
other. We very often retard or pre-
vent a success by entertaining fear in
our minds, which is error. It's more
often exhibited (when not openly ex-
pressed) by our willingness to join a'
successful movement, when, perhaps,
all that a young undertaking needs is a
little exercise of our minds, building,
followed up with doing our part.
Illustrated.
The individual sees in hia mind's
eye that if the ground is plowed and
seed sown, a return of 10, 20 or even
100 fold will be made; or sees others
do it, but he will never get his return,
he will never have this well fenced,
well equipped farm, orchard and
houses, barna and granaries, going to
make a happy, successful home, except
that he adds labor or its equivalent,
money, to what he created in hi8 mind.
(Fear is a lie and* like the devil, is
the father of it.)
Corporate Success
Is created in the same way. A mind
sees the necessity of a community
having some service performed that
is usually publicly needed. So it sets
about reorganization, shows a few peo-
ple where a special privilege, evidenc-
ed by a charter from the people, will
make big returns (from the fact of that
same people's patronage.) The money
is invented, and the thing that was
created in the minds, is created in re-
ality. The few are allowed to own the
machines, be they railroads, factories
or mills, and it becomes impossible for
the people to have the product of their
own raw produce, an exchange through
transportation, without paying a tribute
to the success of the corporation that
they themselves gave a charter, and
this tribute has taken the product of
your labor until (but why talk longer)
the greatest minds of our day say that
concentrated wealth is a menace to
our government itself. Do corporations
fear? Not so long as you patronize
them.
Patronage Is the Secret of Their Suc-
cess.
Now, brother, here comes the reason
that co-operation has been created in
our minds. We have seen that the di-
rect and indirect ownership of machine
manufacturing getting rich from that
ownership, and from our patronage.
The thing for us to do is to co-operat-
ively own these machines, manufacture
these machines, manufacture the
things of necessity from our raw prod-
uct and distribute them to ourselves,
leaving the profits that we have been
giving to a chartered few in the form
of a toll in our own hands. Its suc-
cess depends upon you* if you expect
something for nothing. If you stop
at the birth of the grand ie'-a in the
mind. If you allow that thing ealled
fear to enter your mind, where you ab-
solutely and positively know that your
patronage makes the success of co-
operation. You are alone to blame.
So if - you are waiting to join the
Rio Grande Woolen Mills Company
(co-operative) after It has made a
grand success of national co-operative
manufacturing, and are afraid to in-
vest that little per capita that is neces-
essary to co-operatively own these ma-
chines, you are creating the thing-
fear. Out of Nothing, take nothing,
leaves onthing, (and that is fear), and
so long as you entertain it, that's what
you will have, nothing.
The mind has built co-operation. You
see, you believe. Believing is adding
your labor (for its representative—
money.) Do this, then your patron-
age, because of the better service you
get. This is co-operative succsse. Pear
is nothing, can do nothing, never did
anything. Why burden your mind
longer with a hallucination? Do same-
thing that is real by taking up the part
that is your privilege to do.
RIO GRANDE WOOLEN MILLS CO.,
CO-OPERATIVE.
By JOHNEY BEARRUP, Prifider.t
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