The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1912-09-26
"A NEW KIND
OF POLITICS
That Will Enrich the Whole
American Northwest.

A brand new kind of politics"
has shown up. But it ism t
politics at all, in the sense that
the word is usually used. In
stead, it is a platform for the re-
generation of every farm in the
eight states Of the American
Northwest.
1t seems that an inquisitive
farmer asked Editor Willis of
Minneapolis; What are the poll
tics of your paper?" He replies
with this
Ringing Declaration Of Orange Judd Northwest
Farmstead.
/. To make three bushels of
grain grow where one grows now.
2. To make forage crops,
grasses and pasture twice as good
and four times as profitable as at
present.
3. To make fruits, vegetables
and other crops better in quality
and profit.
A. To enable Northwestern
farmers to make more and better
crops of all kinds and larger
profits.
5. To promote improved live
stock until the Northwest furn-
ishes to the rest of the United
States and to foreign countries a
vastly larger surplus of meats,
butter, cheese, egg and manu-
factures therefrom.
6. To reform distribution,
banking and currency, so as to
make universal more economic
methods of marketing the pro-
ducts of American farms and
factories, forests and mines, and
in supplying our peoples consum-
ing needs.
z. Towisely utilize the North
vests natural resourcea so that
they may yield handsome profits
at present, and yet be conserved
for future generations.
8. Toimprove the Northwest's
highways and railroads, rivers
and harbors, until they are ade-
quate to the needs @of a mighty
people.
/
9. To improve our schools until
every young person in country or
town may be trained in efficiency,
health and character, and imbed
with that knowledge and the ca
pacity to use it.
10. Tolink more closely school
and home, farm and factory, SO
that the one may more benefit
the other.
IL. To aid, in these and other
ways, the Northwest to have
fourfold its present population, |
each of whom shall enjoy life, |
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness"
IL. Thus to make for a Great
er Nation through a Greater
Northwest.
Comment on the Above
is not needed; each plank speaks
for itself. But you won't fihd
any of our planks in the platform
of any political party.
Yet how much more important
is Northwest Farmstead's plat
form! just think a bit, and you
will see how true is our statement.
For all the candidates for office
might not miraculously disappear,
and legislatures might
not meet for a couple of years.
Yet the United States and the
world would go right along with
scarcely aripple. But let Ameri-
can farmers for a single season
fail to produce a surplus of foods
for market, and the economic
fabric Of the whole occident would
be upset!
Soil and seas and forest support
the world. Better farming
means better living and better
times for all-and this means, {
also, that people shall get into
gear with nature. F" or in tune
with the infinite, and enjoy the
harmony of body, mind and soul
that is the realest thing in this
life.
So we fancy pretty much all !
1ur folks up here will say amen 1
10 Northwest Farmstead's plat
form. Now let's all pitch in to
work it out. For God helps those
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