The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-09
FARMERS PROTECTION.

In Ramsey county this state there is
organized line of elevators known
as the Farmers Grain Company, capt.
1alized at $3.50 900 with G. w. H. Davis
Of Starkweather as president and W.
G. Samuel as secretary.
They have elevators at fourteen sta
tons and their object in organizing
was to help themselves in marketing
their grain and to save the fee paid
middle-men They have a membership
on the Board of Trade at Minneapolis
and Duluth and handle their own pro-
duct. and no one but actual producers
along their line of elevators are per-
mitted to own stock.
They are formulating plans by which
they will be able to take in the chief
wheat growing sections and to Or
ganize banking system by which
means money may be furnished far
mers for wheat in store so that the
wheat may be held until a fair price
can be obtained. More than this the
farmers feel the need of better sys-
tenn of inspecting the grain.
Farmers have had their patience
taxed beyond the point of endurance
by the grain gamblers until they have
now started to fight their own battles
and when. properly organized and Of
ficered by competent men of known
veracity there'll be something doing.
They will not only have their own
banking houses but they will have
their mercantile houses and ship in
machinery, provisions and in fact, all
the necessaries of life and furnish
these at actual cost to the stockhold-
ers.
There is a point at which forbear-
ance ceases to be virtue. That point
has been reached with the farmer. He
is no longer the "hay-seed' with long
chin whiskers. He is intelligent and
observing and through rural route
deliveries he is supplied with daily
news and has become as intelligent
as the shrewd business man. He fully
realizes now that the withholding of
his produce will drive the business
man out of business, close the doors
OF large manufacturing establishments
and cause general disaster.
He has patiently toiled only to be
robbed of the products of his labor
until he has become impatient.
The time was when farmers UNDER
took to organize for self-protection
that some outsider would get busy and
breed dissentions and break up con-
ndence but not so SOW. They have
found that they must hang together,
or hang" separately and they prefer
the former method OF hanging.
From the earliest history of our
country down to the present time the
farmer has been more than willing to
stand his share of the running ex-
penses of the government. He has
beaten his plow share into weapons
of war and fought valiantly in defense
of his country and whenever and
wherever his country has called for
his aid he has freely given it.
While China's four million are dy-
ing today of starvation ,o what source
are they looking for aid? 1t is pro-
posed that Iowa's governor ask the
prosperous sons of her soil to donate
literally from the product of their
farms, made productive by intelligent
farming.
When crops fail and we are on the
verge of starvation then it is that we
come to fully realize the burden that
the farmer has to bear and the i'm
portance of intelligent farming.
Let us then, ere it is too late, join
hands with the farmer and assist him
in anyway that we can in getting a
fair recompense for his labors so that
he will be contented to devote all of
his time to the proper development OF
his farm that the soil may become even
more productive and that he may en-
JOY the fruits of his own labor as lux
uriously as does his city brothers,