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Wheat growers, wouldn't it tickle you most to death to 

 have your wheat insured against all these calamities with- 

 out a dollar for the insurance? Well, you can have it by 

 unionizing and collecting it through the minimum price of 

 what you sell. Will it pay to unionize? 



Prevent Capital Leaving the Farms. 



The insurance idea just discussed would not only give the 

 wheat growers a larger working capital, but prevent what 

 little they have leaving the farm for more profitable invest- 

 ments. Not getting any interest on their investments on 

 the farm those who happen to get a little money to spare 

 are loaning it, or investing it in any kind of a wildcat scheme 

 whose agents first come around. They think it as safe and 

 as sure of returns as investing it in farming enterprises, such 

 as modernizing the home and equipping the farm with other 

 good buildings and up-to-date implements. But with the 

 insurance against loss of capital and interest invested on the 

 farm through the minimum price system, it would be safe 

 and sane to invest it in such improvements. 



If wheat growers wish their business to be safe and sane 

 they will unionize to make it so. 



Union to Own All Elevators. 



When the wheat growers are unionized they should own 

 all elevators in the principal wheat-raising States and build 

 or buy terminal elevators and wheat-storage granaries at 

 grain centers and seaports. That will give them an invest- 

 ment outlet for any surplus cash they, may have for a while. 

 Those elevators will be needed in the business of placing the 

 wheat on the market at distributing centers and for export. 



It is contemplated the national executive of the wheat 

 growers' union will control the price of wheat until it is in 

 the hands of the millers, thus eliminating boards of trade 

 gamblers, speculators and profiteerers in wheat. The union 



