The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-31
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CutlCo VI oCSb'ItiCos
Each of the secretaries and other
employees is directed to perform such
practical services in their respective
field of operation as will be most con-
ducive to the distribution of agricul-
tural products from the minutest guam
tity up to the greatest bulk, and from
the most nearby section throughout
the remotest parts of the earth. This
organization will have little to do with
speech making. It's business will be
distribution. It's business will be
business.
If today we compare distribution as
it is done in other channels of com
merce than agriCulture-if we compare
this with the business of distribution
by agriculture-we find that while the
man of commerce outside of agricul-
ture has many ten thousand aids to
help him along the commercial path
way toward success, the producer of
agriculture, on the other hand, has no
such aids. AS a rule he is commercial
ly dumb, commercially lame and COM
mercially blind
The thoro organization of the farm
er under the bill before congress will
do away with this defect. 1t will pro-
vide agriculture with commercial
mechanism that will render the farm
ers the commercial peers of com
mercial people. THE devil take the
hindermost,' and the farmer is now
the hindermost.
With this organiZation-wit these
thousands of chambers of agriculture
the farmers will no longer be the
hindermOst; that is, the commercial
hindermost. He will take his place
as the commercial peer and as com
mercial leader, and he will employ the
power that this point of advantage
will give him the power not merely of
distribution, the power not merely to
earn a more just return for his labor,
but a power that will give him just
share in the political life of this
nation.
Lack of System.
Farmers talk much about Wall
street and the trusts, but there is
something more deadly than Wall
street, more deadly than the trusts,
which they forget to call up and ham
mer at. What is that something? 1t
is CHAOS. His right hand does not
know what his lert nand doeth, and
mark, that is not said of his acts of
charity, but of his long business, and
so long as he is handicapped in that
way, so long must he ever remain the
hindermost and receive the penalty
attached to remaining so.
From the many thousands of petit
tions that have come to hand in favor
of this marketing measure from all
sections of the Union, from the many
large and influential conventions
where this proposal, embodied in the
bill before congress, has been endors-
ed and adopted, and enthusiastically
so, it is quite obvious that a momen-
tous change is here, a change that will
enable free play to the potential com
mercial qualities within the American
farmer, to be called into play to de
velop and to evolve into qualities
which shall soon place him foremost in
the foremost rank of commerce. And
in the doing of all this he will have
done something more. He will have
awakened a new factor in American
economic and political life, a modified
agricu,ture-which will be a potent
supplementary agency of prepared
ness, the equal if not the superior to
all the arms preparedness that we
can make.
Let it be announced in the worlds
newspapers tnaJ we are S'IeHS IuVHIHs
our military forces in America, that
we are building new submarines and
warships on the one hand, and on the
other hand let it be announced that
we are adapting and adopting the
Landwirtschaftsrat of Germany, and
which of the two would make the most
profound impression on the German
statesman?
More Important Than War Measure
Beyond all question the adaptation
of the Landwirtschaftsrat Germany
knows its value. That Is the power,
the mighty power, which has substan-
TALLY rendered Germany invulnerable
against the great Powers of Europe,