Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05

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Church of the New Thought Says
Bro. Kane: The New Thought
movement is a shay. haired fraud;
nevertheless it is an easy, romantic
religion for society people with shall.
low brains and a multiplicity of pug
dogs. The editor of the contemporary
cannot count on any startling move
ment developing in Chicago. hat is
a city OF schisms, and every schism
perishes within FIVE to ten years.
The dainty schismatics are hiding the
Occult, Christian Science, Theosophy
and New Thought just now; ten years
hence they may have Mormonism by
the horns, hearkening to its fatiferous
l~ogodaedaly. They don't care what
sort of religion they embrace, just so
it's new and has no commandments
Since writing the above Editor
Kane has mysteriously disappeared
and his whereabouts are unknown.
When last seen he was mumbling
something that sounded like "fatifer-
Gus logodaedaly, and it is supposed
he will remain in hiding until the
excitement blows over.
The jamestown Alert calls attention
to the effort of the Minneapolis millers
to have the duty on wheat removed so
they a secure the Manitoba CROP at
a less price than is now being paid
American farmers. The Alert be-
lieyes in the farmers organizing, and
argues thusly:
IF the farmers would set together
and take some united action in their
own interests, the same as mechanics
do, by forming unions and supporting
by assessments, those who would
T otherwise be compelled to sell their
: grain as soon as threshed, it would
not be long before the bread eating
world would be at the feet Of the
wheat raiser. begging for bread at any
= old price. The advantages of this for
the farmer are plain to be seen, and
1T is a matter Of constant surprise that
the education of the farmers's boys
l along this line is neglected at home
selves to be hopelessly indifferent to
> the advantages Of organizing to hold
8 their products from the markets unit
the world pays them a fair price fol-
the food that it requires from day tc
day. 1t would not be many weeks
before. the flour manufacturers of the
northwest would be Offering a good
J. round sum for the spring wheat of
this region, if the bulk Of the wheat
raisers Of Minnesota, North and South
= Dakota would agree to hold then
gram for a year if necessary and not
to sell below a certain profitable
:, figure. This rs the policy that the
men and ONE in other lines of
human LABOR are pursuing. They get,
by standing together, what they never
y could obtain by acting without an
Il organization and as individuals. The
"a IlCiH "C IL last " ledlu lulS
It trick, and what is right and necessary
a for the mechanic and trust promoter,
r for every other branch Of labor and
capital is certainly fair for the farm.
ers. no other class OF workers could
a 50 quickly bring about a fairer distri.
S button Of the results Of labor for
- themselves as the bread %raisers. II
would be a panic to get what the
poorly paid grain raiser has to sell
and the prices would be paid without
a question, if the farmers would only
; get together and say they should get
a fair profit for their grain.
d And on the other hand, the bene-
y fits Of the general population from this
larger division of profits to the farm
CT would be seen at once in his in
5 creased ability to pay for the products
t that the other classes of the country
have to sell. The farmer is the great
est buyer on earth. His needs are al
= ways many and his demand would
constitute a great and steady source
of profit for the makers Of other things
that the farmers needed. His pros
= perity is the basis of the prosperity of
all other c1assec