The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-06
GRAIN GROWERS
TOLD POLITICS.
NOT A SOLUTION.
FOR THEIR ILLS.
Willard Myers Says It Lies
In Something Deeper
and More Lasting

Bismarck, N. D., March 6.-"The
farmer viii not find solution for
his Ills in politics, Mildred r. Myers,
editor Of The Cooperative JournaE
told an audience Of farmer grain
| growers and elevator men which
! filled the municipal auditorium last
night.
THE solution lies in something
deeper, more basic and more last
| ing, said the Chicago farmer editor.
The elevators which we buy and
own and the mills which we build
and the other permanent property
which we acquire by cooperative eff
fort, will endure 100 years from now
when the politicians who come to us
with their quack remedies, will have
persisted from the face Of the earth
and have been forgotten.
Farmers Travelling 5IindIy.
came here fresh from a tour Of
Europe and az careful study of two
generations of successful co-opera-
tive enterprise. came to say that,
in the light of what learned over
there, / am confident our farmers are
going blindly into lot Of things
which are foredoomed to failure.
The speaker mentioned packing
plants, cooperative stores and other
enterprises, into which the farmer
goes with little or no advance
which he puts comparatively little
capital and to which he can give lit
tie or no time.
For Cooperative Democracy.
He declared against state owner
ship and for a cooperative democ- |
racy. In the same breath he assert |
ed his belief that cooperation will |
never achieve a monopoly, and he /
told or conditions prevailing in Lon |
don, where the tradesmen insisted |
the cooperative workmen's stores |
were monopoly which could not be !
competed with, and he told how a |
chicago merchant went over to Lon
don and in the face Of competition |
from workmen's trust founded the |
greatest department store in Europe /
ana made or it a wonderful success. |
Cooperation, he declared, will furn-
ish the balance wheel, while private
ownership Will continue to have the |
initiative and efficiency The two
working hand in hand will solve the /
problems Of the future for the con-
sumner and the producer.
Good Pilot Is Needed.
He hkened the farmers movement
IN America to a stately ship, every
unit OF whose crew and her machin-
cry is indispensable. Most indispens-
able Of all, he declared, is the pilot,
and this has been lacking, he said. in
so many Of the farmers organfza-
lions which have sprung up spontan-
eously to combat great wrong. They
nave fioundered around, steering no
definite course, with the tiller in in
experienced or INSCRIPTIONS hands
600 Attend MEETING,
Six hundred farmer elevators man.
ayers, stockholders and patrons.
gathered here to attend the seventh
annual convention Of the North Da-
kota Farmer Grain Dealers associa-
Clon. Though the courtesy Of Secre-
tary F. Q. Hellstrom of the North
Council Of Defense, they win
see how. Uncle Sam makes war.
Secretary Hellstrom yesterday Offer
ed Secretary M. c. Gaulke of the as
ISOLATION the use OF some Of the great
var films which are now being ex-
alotted in 200 North Dakota theaters, | .
and Mr.. Gaulke promptly accepted.
This afternoon j. w. ShorthiIl. !
secretary OF the National council. |
With which the North Dakota. Farm !
srs, Grain Dealers association is
affiliated, win tell Of the organized ;
.armer at Washington. Mr.. Short {
ill, as member Of the federal price,
king committee, has spent the last
Iear at the capital, and he is thor
,ughly familiar with his subject. | I
|linord Thorne, ex-chairman of the !
oWa railway commission. and a man !
Who has successfully led many farm
n fights for better freight rates. fol- | j
ows Mr.. Shorthill with an address !
IN The Railroad and the American 1
Farmer.
F. S. Betz of Chicago talks on
Auditing and Bookkeeping, and
lanes A. Little, rate expert with the ,
North Dakota railway commission, :
Ind one Of the best known tariff men
n the northwest, will conclude the !
fternoon's program with a descrip- 5
lon OF some Of the things which a \
ailway commission can do in the
way OF obtaining just and fair rates e
or the farmer. 7
The necessity Of an increased Z
PRODUCTION in grain was urged by t
governor Lynn ]. Frazier, speaking | &
'efore the farmers grain dealers O
He said the eyes Of the 9
World are turned on North Dakota I
he greatest Of all wheat states. to in !,
rease production for the cause of Z
emocracy. He appealed to the / g
rain men to encourage farmers in
he planting Of an increased acreage. \