The National Co-Operator (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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(I. P. PYLE,
Kdltor iiml Proprietor.
Published Once a Week at Mlneola, Texas.
TKIIMS OK NflHHftHIPTION.
One Hollar a year. In atlvanre.
Bntered at I'oHt Office Mtneola. Texan, aa
second-class mall matter
Advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication.
The Home la the hope ol the Nation. When
•very family own a home free from mort-
■•■e, then Indeed, will we hare a proeperoua
country. To own a home In a duty every
■an owea to himself, bin family and hfs
country.
MINKOLA, TUX AS. MAIU'll 21, 1000,
TO CORRBSPONDENTS:
Co-Operator Im Hiwuyw glad to hear from
you, llut you must not feel slighted If we are
eomiielletl to strike out a part ol your com-
munications. We receive ho many that If
we were to print them JiiHt iih they come tu
we would have to enlarge the paper Nome
weekH to accommodate the correspondents
alone. When writing, he mire to Hiiy what
you wIhIi to Niiy In iih few wordH nh poHHlhle;
and then, If we miiHt hi III cut It shorter, you
will know the reiiHon why anil will excuHe iih
for It. Beiiicuihcr, that Co.Operator Ih a Na-
tional paper ami receives communlcatlonH
from all States where the Farmers Union Ih
planted. Don't fall to write. Co-Operator
Ih your paper. I'ne It.
Mln "n m Prices.
The following ininIiniiin priced were report-
eil hy committee mid agreed upon by the
National Farmers Kilucatlonal anil Co-Oper-
aftlvu Union of America at Hh tlrwt annual
■eHHlon, at Texarkana, Dec. f , 190ft, for
thlH year'H crop:
Cotton, mlilillliiK 11c
Corn, per hiiHliel ftOe
Wheat, per liUHhel fl.00
OatH, per liunhel ,'lfte
llroom corn, per ton, from $Hft to $100
Cattle, per cwt (1.50
Hogn, " " 5.50
Hay, per ton 10.00
Alfalfa, per ton 15.00
MeloiiH, per car 50.00
Sweet potatoes, per biiHhel 75c
IrlHh 75c
Cottonseed, per ton 15.00
Hides, per lb 12Vi|C
Committee:—J. H. Iloyle, Oa.; I- N. llolmeH,
La.: N. N. Sherman, I. T.; I.P. Htovoll, Miss.;
R. H. McCullough. Ark.: J. T. llpton, Tenn. j
H. M. Hay, Mo.; T. H. Foster, S. C.; H. N.
Gains, KatiHits.
Don't «,iimp.
It is still 11 cents.
Never sell below the minimum
price.
Mississippi is added to the list.
Let the good work go on.
It is an industrial organization
and not in anywise political.
This Co-Operator will do much
good if you will push it along.
See what we have done! Can
you still be a doubting Thomas?
If the wolf is a friend to the
lamb, then is the bull a friend to
the producer.
Optional contracts will help us.
Do not make all accounts due Oct.
1st or any other date.
Tennessee on April 3rd. Verily,
verily, we are National. Never
be weary in well doing.
Be thinkers. It is the man
who thinks who prospers. Let's
all think and all prosper togeth-
er.
Five dollars will send Co-Oper-
ator to 10 of your non-union
neighbors a year. It will pay
you. ___________
The politician who would try
to "work" a farmers organization
now will never be able to know
what struck him.
A negotiable warehouse re-
ceipt will make a very good sub-
stitute for money, which is no
more than a measure of value.
Controlled markets! is the
slogan. The doctrine is the
same in all the states, and is be-
ing preached the same way.
Nothing can prevent our success.
Enemies without or within can
not prevail against us.
LET'S GO A FISHING.
Let's suppose that we produce
15 million bales of cotton this
year. We may do this. If we
do, the bears are going to make
a great hue and cry about it, and
will try to bear the price below
the cost of production. We wil
become poorer because we have
worked too hard and producec
too much cotton. Eight million
bales will sell for more than 15
million bales will. What a terri
blesystem of distribution we have!
Think of it. We have absolutely
no competition in raising cotton
It has been tried elsewhere many
times and failed. And yet, we
are not smart enough to get
just and reasonable price for our
cotton. Why is this? Simply
because we have never tried. We
have gone along in a haphazard
way trusting to conditions what-
ever they may be, to bring for us
a living price for our cotton. That
living price we have been able to
receive only a few times. What,
then must we do to be saved
from this awful condition of af-
fairs? We must take charge
of our own and, if we raise too
much cotton under our present
systum any one year, we must
lay part of it aside for the next
year, and go a-tishing if neces
sary and not raise so much. This
can be done. When we get fully
prepared to do this, when we get
a system or chain of warehouses
all under one system whereby
we can control millions of bales
of cotton, the work will be done.
This cotton will form the very
best basis for a circulating me-
dium, and the negotiable ware-
louse receipts will pass current
as money. The cotton will re.
main in the warehouses until the
minimum price set by the Nat-
ional Farmer's Union is reached.
It will never be sold below this
price. By this means we will
not only be able to get a just and
equitable price for our cotton,
but we will also be able to make
a stable price for it. We will
thus be able to sell our cotton, if
necessary before it is planted,
thus fixing an absolute price on
it before we plant it. What a
great thing it would be if the
cotton raiser could know abso-
lutely, before he plants his cot-
ton what he is going to get for
it, and that the price is a just and
equitable one! That time is com-
ing. It is almost here.
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNION.
Delegates from many county
Unions in Miss, met in the coun-
ty court house in Jackson on
Tuesday, March 13th, for the
purpose of organizing a State
Union. A large delegation of in-
telligent Mississippi farmers was
present. W. A. Morris and E.J.
Cook of Alabama, and Newt
Gresham and O. P. Pyle of Texas
were present and assisted in the
organization. The organization
was effected on the night of the
13th and turned over to the elect-
ed officials which are as follows:
J. M. Bass, Hazlehurst, Presi-
dent.
T. F. Kyle, Plymouth, Vice-
President.
G.W. Russell,Hazlehurst, Sec.-
Treas.
E. M. Boyd, Rayburn, Chap-
lain.
T.W. Thompson, Blue Springs,
Conductor.
Abner Penn, Aryeville, Door-
keeper.
Executive Committee:
H. W. Bradshaw, Mosley,
Chairman.
T. R. Palmer, Greenwood
Springs, Secretary.
M. A. Brown, Yazoo City.
W. B. Dunaway, Enon.
B. H. Wade, Belden.
All these 0<llcS|Ml9 are enth
tic in the grej&Jflfrrk they
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undertaken and have taken charge
with a determination to make a
success—and they will. A more
enthusiastic body of Union men
have never been assembled than
the delegates composing the
Mississippi State Union, and
never did peace and harmony
prevail to a greater extent than
in the organization of the State
Union of Mississippi. Strong
men, talented men, of course,
disagreed on some propositions
as is the case in all deliberative
bodies, but the disagreements
were only for the moment, and
when the great meeting adjourn-
ed, all were entirely satisfied.
The Mississippi State Union is
in safe hands. The executive
committee on whose shoulders
rests the work between the ses-
sions of the State Union are all
strong men and will carry on the
work and will make a success of
it. The brethren of Mississippi
have a clear conception of the
purposes of this organization and
will make it a power in the State
of Mississippi in many ways. We
hope, pray and believe, that, the
work so well begun in Miss, will
continue there as in all the other
states, 'till the producers of our
great country are placed where
they rightfully belong, in abso-
lute possession of that which, by
right, is their own.
Brother D. F. Burgess of Haz-
elhurst, Miss , has done splendid
work and will do much more
good work for the state of Miss.
Each issue of Co-Operator is a
great lecture itself. See that it
is placed where it will do the
most good. All Union men should
read it.
By the terms of the Waco Con-
stitution, our State Lecturer, be-
comes also State Organizer. Bro.
Neill is certainly the right man
in the right place.
The way the new subscriptions
are rolling in is very encouraging.
As the Farmers' Union grows, so
should also Co-Operator. They
should go hand in hand.
The other fellow has learned
not to come into competition with
each other. When the producer
learns this, he will be the only
truly wealthy man in the world.
Competition among the pro-
ducers is not the life of trade. It
is financial death to the producer.
It is only by combination and con-
centration that we are to be saved.
It is certainly gratifying to re-
ceive so many letters telling us
that, wherever Co-Operator is
read, the locals are alive and at
work, with perfect peace and
larmony prevailing.
If the producer does not get
up a proper plan for the distribu-
tion of his products, no one will
do it for him. If the other fel-
ow does our thinking he will
surely get our money.
Wealth belongs to him who
creates it, or should belong to
him. Does he get it? Why is it
le does not? Only because he
comes into competition with his
neighbor, his brother producer.
If the bulls never turned bears
and the bears never turned bulls,
there would- be no profit in fu-
tures. Suckers believe that the
bulls are their friends. Yes,
such friends as the wolf is to the
amb.
Never think for a moment that
gambling in futures will be kill-
ed by legislation, national or
state. Nothing but a perfect un-
derstanding of the producers can
ever do a thing against this aw-
corse.
Thev Read The Co-Operator.
Editor Co-Operator:
We presume that the editor
and readers think Brazos county
is dead, but I must say nay. We
were once almost gone astray but
finally the dead hay.e come to
life. The good work has just be-
gun. Great interest has been
manifested the past winter and
we have recently organized a
County Union. I worked faith-
fully last year organizing and on
ly organized three unions, only
one of these having a charter
until this year, when two others
were organized and charters got-
ten for the other four, making a
County Union. Today we are
without an organizer in the field
as I have accepted a position as
clerk and am therefore debarred
from the office. We trust that
the state organizer will take note
of this and put a man in the field
at once. Because I am clerking
is no reason why I should not
work for the Union, and I am
doing all I can for it. I find the
Co-Operator as good a speaker
for our Union as could be want-
ed- I believe several of our late
members were influenced to join
the Union by reading a copy of
the Co-Operator. One member
told me that reading the Co-Op-
erator caused him to join; there-
fore I can help the Union a great
deal by handing out copies that
I get, as the editor is so kind as
to send me extra copies every
week. I have given away sever-
al copies and gotten some sub-
scribers. I would like to know
if I may still take orders for the
paper as heretofore; if So I will
send in a list of ten very soon.
Fraternally,
J. Eden.
Harvey, Texae, March 13.
[Yes. brother Eden, continue
to take subscriptions for the Na-
tional Co-Operator. By doing so
you will be doing a great work
for the Farmers' Union. The
National Co-Operator is a great
organizer and wherever it goes
the Union never fails to grow.—
Editor.]
Getting Down to Business.
Editor Co-Operator:
Our little Union has been kind-
er dragging until lately. Our
brethren are waking up now and
we are getting down to business.
Our last meeting was very inter-
esting indeed. We initiated two
ladies and have one to initiate at
the next meeting. These are
the first ladies that have joined
our local. Our lodge is small but
lively. We have 25 members in
all. We meet twice each month,
Saturday night before the first
and third Suday in each month.
The following resolutions were
adopted by our union:
Resolved that we keep our pro-
ceedings inside the walls, and
that nothing of the Union pro-
ceedings be published in any
except Union papers. I am sor-
ry that trouble exists between
State and National officers. I
hope things will get all right and
settle down. It only affords a
club for monopoly to fight us
with. Our Union voted in favor
of the late constitution as it
reads. I am not posted as to
what was done at the meeting in
Dallas, March 6. I hope every-
thing was settled peacably.
J. E. Boaz, Sec.
Sumner, Tex., March 12
LBro. Boaz, Texas got right.
Peace and harmony now prevails
in the Union ranks in Texas, and
I belieye the Union is stronger
than it was. Let our motto be:
"Go Forward."—Editor]
Brother J. P. Stovall of Plan-
tersville, could not be present at
the organization of the Miss,
state Union owing to the acci-
dental death of his son. His ab-
sence was greatly deplored by
all present. He is a good man
and a good worker for the cause.
The Han That Walks Behind
the Plow!
I am not so much at slnglug as you hi i.
c diluted chaps; •"
My voice It may be husky, and a little rouirh
perhaps, *
For I have been a plowing with a la«y tsam
you see,
Anil It keeps me pretty busy with my itet
up, wo, haw, gee;
Ho If you pay attentlou, Pve got a word to
say
About the great mistake you make and ilo
It every day,
lu dealing out your phrases, I want to tell
you now
Too ofteu you forget the man that walk*
behluil the plow.
iuokus:
You talk about your learned men, your
wits aud wisdom rare,
Your poets and your painters, they m*,
praises everywhere;
They are well enough to make a show but
will you tell me how
This world could ever, do wltout the man
behind the plow. an
Tls very ulce to go to school, to learn tu
read aud write;
Tla nicer still to dress up flue aud sport
around at night;
Your muslc-palntlng poetry may all be hard
to beat;
But tell me what you're going to do for
something good to eat:
You say my boots are muddy and my clothes
they are too coarse;
I would make a good companion for tlie
oxen or the horse;
My face tls red, my hands are hard, tin true
I will allow,
But don't be so quick to spurn the man be-
hind the plow.
1 like your great Inventions and am glad
you're getting smart;
I like to bear your music for It kinder stirs
uiy heart,
But It will never stir the stomach of a real
hungry man;
So dow I call attention to the good things
we have to eat;
Now boys ilon't be anxious to leave the
good old farm;
Your father's strength Ih falling, soon lie'll
need your youthful arm;
If you're honest In your purpose at your
feet the world will bow,
For the greatest of all great men Ih the man
that follows the plow.
NewtGadiiy, President,
Bushing Local No. 122.'!. Bushing, Ark.
TO ALL LOCALS.
In order that the good work
may go on much faster than ever
before, we will send The Nation-
al Co-Operator to 10 of your non-
union neighbors one year for on-
ly $5 00. We will send it to 20
for $10,00 and so on. This is a
proposition you can not well af-
ford not to accept. It will pay
you many fold. Nearly everyone
to whom you send Co-Operator
will join your local, and will
bring someone else with him. An
outlay of a very few dollars will
cause nearly every man in your
community, who is eligible to
membership to join. Take this
matter up in your local and dis-
cuss it. As an investment it will
pay your local many times. We
have received many hundreds of
letters stating that Co-Operator
never fails to bring non-union
men into the fold.
Fraternally,
tf. O. P. Pyle.
The Co-Operator Did It.
National Co Operator:
Wayerlv Union unanimously
endorsed the Texarkana Conven-
tion in organizing a National Un-
ion and agreed to stand by the
officers elected and help to gain
the victory regardless of what a
little two-by-four lawyer and the
schemer says. Waverly Union
has had a hard pull. We organi-
zed with five members and stood
at that number until by chance
some got a copy of The National
Co-Operator and subscribed for
it, and when thev began reading
it the interest in the Union began
to grow until now we have 25
members with new applications
coming in every meeting. I
would suggest to every Union
man who wants the Union to suc-
ceed to tako The Co-Operator.
hence I will pen these few lines:
Hurrah for The Co-Operator,
hurrah I say. Hurrah for The
Co-Ooperator, it's making Union
men every day, it's a great paper
too, and this great paper I shall
send to you, and if you will care-
fully read, its lines will surely
tell, how to farm,plough, hoe and
co operate well. The Co-Opera-
tor I would not do without. When
reading it I learn what my Union
brother is talking about. So
brother if you want the Union
news take the Co-Operator, for
it tells it all and teaches you how
to co-operate. W. L. W.
Waverly, Tex., March 16.
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Pyle, O. P. The National Co-Operator (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1906, newspaper, March 21, 1906; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254307/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.