FARMERS’ UNION COMBINE

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 822, 21 February 1903, Page 2

FARMERS’ UNION COMBINE

(Per R.M.S. Ventura at Auckland.) Chicago, Jan. 23. A movement is under way among the farmers cf tho country toward forming a gigantic union. All through the West hundreds of farmers’ organisations are being formed, and to-morrow afternoon a farmers' meeting will be held at Broadlands, Champain County (111.), for tho purpose of uniting tho strength of that region. Farmers .for miles around will journey toward Broadlands, and preliminary measures will bo adopted for the founding of their association, which, it is expectod, will Bpread quickly all over tne State.

Farmers believe that the time has come for thorn to unite for their own protection. Their business is about the only great occupation that has been left to shift along individually, and farmers realise that they have too long been the butt of the monopolists. 1 1 is believed that the Farmers’ Union, thoroughly entrenched, will be the strongest association in the world, and able to dictate absolutely to the trusts that now control the business of tho \ world. J

Throughout Indiana, lowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota the movement towards organisation is being rapidly pushed. If 3,000,000 of Western farmers can be brought into one great combine, it is argued that they will possess a force that will have more power to regulate commercial evils than all other influences combined. A movement towards uniting the various Farmers’ Unions into a national body will soon be started.