The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-24
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| Why do these so-called educators-the
| terms educators and education are
| much abused and misinterpreted ohes
in this day and time-and those u
enough public officials and profession"
| al politicians, each of which are sup"
| posed to be public servants there
| fore servants of the farmer, dlctate
| and dominate so on these occasions
Why do the men Of other lines OF
industry or other callings, the cnleI
and most conspicuous offenders being
| the bankers. who now act as though
| they really believed that they were
| the actual guardians or actual owners
| of the farmers, and who work or act
chiefly through the parties mentioned
in the preceding query, undertake
| without any hesitation. to tell the
| farmer how to conduct his w bust
ness, tell him just what he may or
must do. and what he must not DO,
| even unto his most private affairs and
| sacred rights as q citizen and a man
of family?
Why are farmers on the occasions
referred to, herded into buildings just
like cattle out on the plains are herd
| ed into ~corrals to be branded, and
like the cattle they are just as help
less to defend themselves against
men who without any qualifications
nor any sane or just license to do So
on the one hand lord it over ana
brand the farmer, while on the other
hand they undertake to make the o Q
, busy to investigate, outside world be-
lieve-and they appear to get away
with it-that they are talking for, ana
to the great benefit Of the farmer?
How long, oh how long would the
men of other industries OF callings,
op| no t;n,,1or 1,r . thu honknro nnrr1jf
the farmers to not only tell them
how to run or manage their w bus
mess but even dictate and domineer
over them to the extent OF invading
the sanctity Of the bankers home
with their Interference and dOmina-
ton? How long, oh, how long? And il
such a condition of affairs vas forced
upon him, how long would the banker
continue to increase and prosper as
in the recent past? And how long
would it be before he would desert
the banking business and leave it to
fall into decay, just as the farmer is
now deserving his business or calling?
Why should the farmer be practic-
ally disfranchised, which is now the
case since we now. have practically no
representation in the halls Of con-
gress? And why should tho farmer
now be treated just. as the Indian has
been treated and as the Aleut OF
Alaska is now being treated? =
What is the matter with those So
called business men, and so-called ed
ucators, and sure enough professional
politicians anyway? Is it possible
that they are so small inside thai the
welding of such unusual, unnatural
and unrestrained power has made
madmen of them, or is it only a case
whnrh thnU ire f1nrnJv ~ Ilnyrjn "
around in the drunken stupor of their
own abysmal ignorance? Surely no
sane or intelligent man can believe
that this country and it's other indus
tries can exist without the farmer and
his industry. Neither can he, after
due consideration Or a proper delving
for actual facts and conditions, doubt
for a moment that the American
farmer is now being pushed off the
map Of the United States, nor that
that is the chief, in fact the one and
only resultant or final cause for the
many great and menacing evils that
we now suffer.
If the individuals or, classes if you
please, above referred to had, suppos-
ing them to be or have been honest in
their aims or efforts, profted by the
teachings of history Or experience; or
had they been endowed with a need
full amount of that God given branch
Of education, Familiarity known as
common sense, they would have long
ago discovered that the course they
were pursuing was decidedly a de-
structlVe and not at all constructive
one.
The writer is prepared to ask many
more questions in similar vein, and
to, in a scholarly and understandable
m n n low rrncnrot. M I1y31tro,;fNI
of arguments based on facts to show
that each and every such query is a
justified and pertinent one. But to do
SO at this time would appear to us
like questioning the intelligence Of
each and every thoughtful and fair
minded citizen who reads these lines.
To one on the side lines who sees
clearly the great and portentous game
that is being played, clearly discerns
and is prepared to point out and de-
scribe just when and how that game
started; trace the paths and avenue
OF it's progress up to it's present APP
parently hopeless one-sided condition
or position; point out and describe
the causes Or reasons for that ne
sided position, and point out a simple,
yet scientific move by which the con
tending elements may be moved to a
more desirable, more equal and men
~ace-lacking position To. this man on
the side lines, / say it seems almost
increduIous that thoughtfuf and rec
ognized students of Industrial, eco
nomic and social conditions should
still be cropping blindly and seeing not
the meat in the nut of the whole, sit
uation. ''
The writer, though "only a farmer
or humble tiller of the soil, is pre-
pared to, in due time and whenever a
proper or fitting opportunity is pre-
sented for doing SO, prescribe the
only one true or real remedy for the
present undesirable industrial eco
nomic and social conditions. Condi-
tons which are far more menacing,
as the people ere long win be forced to
admit If they continue to be uninter-
ested and Indifferent on the subject,
than they are now generally supposed
to be. And the writer is prepared to,
in due time or whenever the public
or people have become sufficiently in.
terested in him and his aims to war;
rant him in doing SO. give an entirely
new text book to the schools and col
leges Of, our country which, being
taught to the rising generations, will
make it impossible for such undesira.
PIE conditions to ever again arise
from the same or similar causes, with
In the confines of this or any other
| civilized nation in the world.
This is merely a plain and fearless
statement of facts presented to and
for the consideration Of an Intelligent
and, we trust, receptive citizenship
and we now leave the case in yo,r
hands. and will only add that Whenev.
er the professional nOlifical ,nd +I~