Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1909 — FARMERS ARE TO OWN ELEVATORS [ARTICLE]

FARMERS ARE TO OWN ELEVATORS

Indorse Plan to Rid Get of the Speculator. FAVORED BY THEIR UNION Organizer cf American Society of Equity Cutlir.zs Preposition to Deal Directly With Millers and With CoOperative Associations of Great Britain—Use of Cotten In the Manufacture of Twine and Bagging Is Recommended. Springfield, Mo., May 14.—A plan to construct a chain of elevators in the grain producing territory for the purpose of holding wheat for high prices was indorsed here by the mass meeting ’Of the grain growers and cattle growers of the National Farmers’ union. It is believed by delegates In attendance that farmers by next season will be prepared to handle a large part of their crops in this way. The use of cotton in the manufacture of twine, rope, sacks and other articles in common use was indorsed. It was stated in the meeting that six million more bales of cotton would be consumed if manufacturers would use the cotton of the south, Instead of importing jute from the Philippines. National Organizer Nelson, of the American Society of Equity, said: “By collective marketing the members of the society will sell their grain to the millers and export products will be sold direct to the English and Scottish wholesale co-operative societies of Great Britain. “In this way we will pass crops by the speculator and be our own middleman. By getting for themselves the profits which goes to the speculator and the middleman, the grain growers will, no matter whether the price be high or low, get a greater income from the sale of their crops, without corresponding increase in cost of bread to the consumers.**