1S4 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



commodities at actual cost. This State Produce Exchange 

 would be owned and managed by the State, and its proposal 

 offered the correct solution of our problem. It was admitted 

 on all sides that this was the correct solution, just as it is 

 admitted that the State Feed Depots and the State Cold 

 Storage Plants offer the correct solution for other problems. 

 But this meant the taking of millions of dollars from the 

 middleman and giving it to the producers, and to this the 

 middlemen objected. By cooperation they used their influ- 

 ence with their lawmakers (not yours) whom you elected, 

 and although this bill passed the Assembly it was strangled 

 by the committee to which it was referred. 



Here is shown the important part which politics plays in 

 your struggle for daily bread, and when I say that politics 

 is the most important thing in this world today I do not 

 exaggerate a particle. "Big business" long ago knew the 

 value of politics, as the shameful conditions that exist in 

 State and National government have shown. You will never 

 improve your condition very much unless you get .State 

 ownership and management of a State Produce Exchange, 

 a State Feed Depot, and a State Cold Storage Plant, and the 

 only way you can get these things is by cooperating and 

 organizing and using the ballot to accomplish these things 

 for you. Forget your petty differences, forget your little 

 prejudices, if for no other reason than that it is good business 

 policy. Do as the interests do, and by studying politics, by 

 learning to think for yourself, and by cooperating with your 

 neighbor you can abolish disease, poverty, prostitution, misery 

 and untold suffering. Through politics, and in no other way, 

 you can obtain a State Produce Exchange, a State Feed 

 Depot, and State Cold Storage Plants. Cooperate with your 

 neighbor so that he can live, so that his children can live, 



