The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12

allowing no compensation to the
greater part of the family for the la
Dor that they did, passing along with
not many comforts, and those are the
things that the agriculturists of this
country are trying to get away from,
that is, trying to work the majority of
the family without any compensation.
The farm people are willing to
work; they are not watching the clock,
they are trying to watch the progress
they can make Then we have quite
a season that we can rest, if the snow
does not get too deep. During the
planting season the farmer does not
watch the clock; the farmers wife
does not watch the clock; they both
listen for the alarm clock. Wage
workers in the city have their fixed
hours. Now, they have some chance of
knowing where they are going to be
at the end of each month; the major
ity wind up just little bit in debt
to the grocer and the coal dealers.
They have banded themselves together
to better their conditions. They are
coming to a point now where they can
accumulate something for their old
age. 1t will be just a matter of few
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tell us all about how they are going
tc run our business. We will produce
everything we can produce and still
keep ourselves from going hungry.
The greatest organization in the
northwest is the Minneapolis Chamber
of Commerce. They get together and
talk over their business and how they
are going to do that business, and the
| farmer is not taken into the counsels
! of that cooperative organization.
They arrange what they are going to
! do to us and also what they will do
for us, and we have up to the present
time simply took our medicine. We
have fought them in our courts and at
tempted to change those things so that
the farmer could get nearer. Our
fathers gathered into great organic
alton in order to accomplish something
along those lines. Now it behooves us,
as farmers of North Dakota, to get
down to real hard thinking. My
friends, get right down to co-opera-
ton, one with the other, and study
out how to accomplish those things
that we have set out to accomplish. 1t
takes a lot of work to carry out this
BUSINESS; it is an enormous problem;
the biggest problem that is before the
American people is the cooperating
and marketing of the American peo-
pie. That is the greatest problem
that is before us. When we have
solved that problem, America will be
some fine place to live in. When every
man, woman and child has the full
benefits of their tolls, their labors and
the products of their labors, then we
will have such an institution in our
country which will make all the ma
tionalities envious Of our homes.
There are so many questions coming
up before the farmers and before the
townspeople The Commercial Clubs
and the Associations Of Commerce are
not understood by the farmers, | be-
lieve, as they should be understood
believe that the farming communi-
ties do not realize what those organ
| izations are trying to do, and what
they would do if the farmers would
help them to do it. Now we have here
in Minot the Association of Com
merce. We will need help for our
harvest. 1t will be necessary that we
get together and save ourselves from
exhorbitant prices. Now then, we have
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help in this country, and the Associa-
ton of Commerce have taken it upon
themselves to advertise for help. They
have applications now from men that
want work in the Dakotas. Married
men and women and single men and
women that want to come to North
Dakota to help harvest and to find a
home. Now those people that want
to come here are the people that we
want to encourage to come here. l
find that there are no applications for
assistance made to the Association Of
Commerce. I find that the farmers are
looking for help; their wives in the
house are looking for girls; there are
none to be had; cannot find any; there
| is sickness in the family and they
cannot find anyone to come and help
them in the house until they recover.
Why? Because no one except in that
neighborhood know that they want
help. There now, the Association Of