Show THE PURCHASING Of the creators of whether in the mine or on the is the only power which will ever deliver them from the bondage they are under to the organized speculators and grafters who now control the and through it distribution of all the necessities of So long as organized laboring men in the cities neglect to provide a co-operative plan for the distribution of the products of organized and refuse to purchase any other just so long will they pay tribute to the organized commission and gamblers and speculators in the necessities of As they succeed in increasing their wages' by deprivation and sacrifice in their battle against their capitalistic the cost of the necessities of life is increased and the extra earnings are swept out of their On the other as long as the farmers in general neglect to thoroughly and refuse to purchase the products of slave they will likewise pay to the same classes that fleece the city laborer out of his hard and if by partial organization the farmers succeed in increasing the price of the products of their the is made up four-fold on the and because of a necessary increase in the wages paid the small increase granted as a result of the most desperate is used by organized capital as a lash to wring a four-fold increase from the farmer for the manufactured supplies which he is compelled to v The time is coming when the producer of wealth in the city and on the farm will do business with each other on a strictly equitable and co-operative without permitting the wealth which they produce to pass through the hands of organized ring of who levy a tribute on both coming and Organized capitalists are reading the on the and are resorting to many delusive plans in order to make the creators of wealth believe that they are trying to protect their They fully realize that the masses are getting their eyes open to the fact that the non-producing capitalists are cally robbing them of the wealth which they produce and piling it up in their private coffers by the and in order to satisfy this growing determination on the part of the laboring classes to secure their just portion of the wealth which they the capitalists are organizing all kinds of co-operative institutions which can not do more than postpone the day of their As a sample of such concerns we will call attention to a large manufacturing plant which recently reorganized as a and opened the way for farmers to invest their spare dollars in a minority of the As a special inducement they were offered the farm machinery at a greatly reduced price if they would become Upon investigation we found that the machinery was to be furnished to the farmer stockholders at an increase of only per cent on the cost of that the amount paid for labor and every other item of cost connected with the production of the Outside purchasers were to be charged per a liberal co-operative purchasers and consumers are fully awakened to the manner in which they are being fleeced by organized capital it will not be long until manufacturing plants will be organized on a strictly co-operative and the and per cent profits will be divided between the mechanic in the shop and the purchaser on the and this will place the mechanic in a shape where he can afford to pay a good price for farm products and still be able to lay up some and by this make farming so profitable that the young men born on the farm will be glad of the opportunity to remain there in place of rushing to the city to compete with the organized la borer there believe the great mass con- to be held in St. Louis the first week in May will be the dawning of a brighter day for all wealth and will open the way for the purchasing power of this country to get in a position to deprive organized capital of its unjust Branch Saturday |