Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-22


we sowing the seeds OF rebellion and
discomfort and in return to reap the
whirlwind Of anarchy and desolation?
The people want bread. The soil
is not giving it, not in sufficient guam
titles to allay the hunger of the world
and soon even our nation will begin
to fall short of sufficient food supply
for the demands of our own people.
We must realize the situation and in
telligently meet it or scarcity Of food,
the inability of the farmer to pay his
debts, the merchants and bankers
having financial difficulties thereby,
the railroads not having freight and
the consumer having to pay increased
prices, will result in producing abnor-
NAL and unbalanced conditions and
distrust and unrest If not actual suit
fering to follow.
In only a few years America will
cease to furnish food products for her
own people if the present drift con.
tinues. But with intelligent culture
the United States will increase her
food supplies more rapidly than pop
ulation is increasing. This can be
done without unbalancing conditions
anywhere and instead of diminishing
manufacturing and! other branches Of
industry, they can be greatly increas-
ed and that favorable condition es-
tablished that our Fourth of July ora,
tors will soon be telling US about.
The seed must be common esnse,
scientific knowledge and great indus
try tested and properly treated" be-
fore sowing.
The Soil.
This is a world movement and the
soil is all nations. We in America
are so self conceited that we thing we
are the only people. But the barriers
are being broken down and we must
look carefully to our farming interest
or soon we will be outdistanced by
others and worse yet be compelled to
look to foreign nations for part of
our food supplies.
Climatic Conditions.
Here again We must pause. In this
case men make conditions of mind
that will make or mar the harvest.
If We have GOODNESS and even temper
allure all will be we'll but II we fly
to extreme and allow the hot winds
of anger and passion or the fogs Of
depression and distrust or the whirl-
winds of hatred and evil thinking to
devastate he country we will have re-
suits hat will blast any thing that
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duction.
The Harvest.
Men gather what they SOW and the
harvest in this case will prove no ex-
ception to the rule. Will the people
see the trend in time to take advant-
age of favorable winds and refreshing
showers In time? In the worlds his
tory the common people have been
equal to any emergency II controlled
by judgment and cool temper. Blu,
this is revolution that has had no
sufficient previous experience to be
If significant special value. So gener-
al experiences and tho good sound
sense of al 1.-The people must be uti-
lied.
There will be only one result. That
which is first will survive and in the
end all will be well. It Is true that
many of the best may perish in the
struggle and it may be long time
before the full harvest is reaped.
To Whom 10 Credit Due?
To whom shall the world give cred
t for the final results? To evenly
balance and weigh out aonors is often
! o4.Acult undertaking. If men could
ay aside prejudice and cody weigh
With even justice the task would not
,e 50 difficult. But often heroes and
martyrs go to unknown or forgotten
graves.
In North Dakota honors appear to
'e rather evenly divided between the
Agricultural College, the Farmers In
'titute and the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company, 50 far as the Special
Farmers Institute train Is concerned.
they are all doing a grand and noble
work, one that the people will appre-
late more and more every year. The
treat beauty about it is that there is
IA unseemly rivalry for honors but
III are doing their utmost to benefit
he people.