Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-09-20
PATRIOTIC
DEMONS STRATlON
AT FARGO
Conference to Support Gov.
ernment and Protect
Citizens.

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| Fargo, Sept. 1S.-A meeting was
held at Fargo yesterday, attended by
1900 people, at which patriotic
appeal was made by Governor Fra
zier, and others to assist in the Red
Cross campaign which is in progress
in this city. Congressman Baer was
present as well as A. C. Townley,
Lynn Thompson, representing Min
neapolis labor unions, and Mrs. Jac-
OBJ Panken, of New York. Congress
man Baer told some interesting in
cidents of his short experience in
Washington. He declared that bread
can be bought for less money in Bel
GUM, France and England than it
can in the country where the wheat
was raised from which the flour was
made" Lynn Thompson Of the Min
neapolis Trades and Labor Assembly
spoke on the common interests of
the workers in the city and in the
country. He declared that the high
cost of living was not, as has been
claimed, due to the high prices de-
manded by labor, or the high prices
and big profits demanded by the
farmers, but was due to the leak be-
tween the city producer and country
producer. He declared that both
laboring men and farmers had been
led to believe that each was opposed
to the others interests, but both the
labor unions and farmer organiza-
tions are getting at the facts thru
careful Investigation and are finding
that the middle man, or those who
handle the products, are making the
big profits.
Told of Tenement Conditions.
Mrs. Panken, social worker OF
New York City, told of conditions
prevailing with the poor in the tene-
ment districts, and declared that the
farmer withs4t the open sky above him,
and the free air around him; should
not think of changing his conditions
with any tenement dweller, who has
to pay with hard labor, for the in
creasing price of living and to live
in unsanitary surroundings and go
underfed. She referred to certain
influences" which the people of the
eastern cities had to contend with at
the present time and said:
When the New York Sun does
not agree with us it accuses us of
being pro-German. They make pro-
Germans out of the Murphys, O'Con-
lnells and all others with whom they
do not, agree. ls4--,a
They wrap flag about their
bodies, or pin it onto their automo-
biles and call it patriotism.
"We love America SO well we can't
afford to see her an autocracy like
Germany. But in America, 80 per
cent of the people produce the
wealth and 10 per cent of the people
own the wealth.
She said the so-called riots in New
York were demonstrations by wom-
en-, who were unable to pay the pro-
hibitive prices for milk for their
ba abies.
Resolutions were adopted at the
close of the meeting, endorsing Gov
ernor Frazier in his administration
of law enforcement at Minot, and
the enforcement of all the laws and
the constitution of the state.
|Government Should Fix Other Prices
Eve are willing to do everything
we can to Help the government" said
Governor Frazier, but If the price
of wheat is fixed, as it has been, we
feel that the government should go
down the line and fix the prices of
everything else. Machinery, labor
and everything that the farmer uses
costs more than ever before. We
are all producers and consumers.
All workers are producers, on farms
or in factories. II we are going to
accomplish anything we must get to-
gether." ..:.
Consideration Due.
4 The governor said that q small
crop has made q scarcity Of grain
and feed, but that the farmers, many
OF whom must buy seed, are prepar-
ing for large acreage next year,
and that particularly in view Of these
conditions. he considered them entitl-
ed to some consfd deration from the
food administration.
Wheat from the Field to the
Table was the subject3.0f the adj
dress delivered by DR.. Ladd, the first
speaker, who declared that while he
consid dered the government had done
wisely IN fixing the price of wheat, e.
basis food, it should go on and Ak
the price Of rice, cotton and other
commodities Of general necessity.
Dr.. Ladd told Of the difficulties
enc countered In the sprice-f liking con-
ferences at Washing ton owing TO nn-5