The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-03-07
MINING AND FARMING
ARE NOT ANTAG0N|sT|C
BOTH INTERESTS TO WORK IN
HARMONY FOR uPBUILD-
ING OF THE STATE.

Inc IolioWlHS eultOrldl lTolll tlie All
aconda Standard applies with equal
force to the people of Idaho:
Several communications have been
received by the Standard during the
past few weeks all dated in ST. Paul
League" by one of it's officers. In all
these communications the writer as
sumes that the Standard is with the
mining interests and against the farm
ers. This assumption is totally un
warranted 1t is true that the Stand
ard is with the mining interests of this
state, but it is also with the farming
interests of this state. Nor is the as
sumption warranted in any degree
that the mining interests of the state
are opposed to the farming interests
or that the men who mine are antag-
onistic to the men who farm.
Surely the great state of Montana
is big enough for all. 1t is big enough
for the miner and the farmer and for
ell the other interests which must go
to make up really great state. The
interests of these classes are not
antagonistic nor should they be in
conflict We are all Americans; We
are all Montanans. We should all be
for everything which is for the adj
vantage and the advancement of all
interests in the state and all the peo-
pie of the state. 1t is not possible to
build up great state by building up
one interest in the state whatever that
interest may be; that is not the way.
The great mining industry helps to
make Montana great; so does the
farming industry. But we know that
mining alone does not constitute Mon
tana's greatness nor does farming
alone make Montana great.
1t would appear from the COM
munications which officers of this
league are constantly sending to the
Standard that the partisan or
ganization which is directed from st.
Paul expects to run politics in Mon
tana in the future and that in order
to do so it is seeking to combine all
the farmers of the state into its or
ganization on the representation that
every man who is engaged in any 9TH
er line of business or industry than
farming is an enemy of the farmer.
This is very far from being the case
All Montana citizens, whatever their
particular vocation, are trying to build
up this state and they are not only
ready but anxious to do everything
that is possible to advance the inter-
ests of the farmers because when the
farmers prosper that helps make the
state great 1t is a wrong and mali
cious assumption that the mining in
terests of the state are opposed to the
farmers They want to help the far
mer because that helps Montana. In
this mining section of the state the
products of the Montana farmers are
consumed in great quantities. They
are as good products of the farm as
can be obtained anywhere and the
people of the mining section are glad
10 Duy TIE NOIlldlld Idl llilLS PlouuStS
because that helps Montana.
1t is understood that many Montana
farmers have joined the league which
declares that it is going to run the
politics of this state in the future, but
it is not believed that the great ma
jority of the farmers have done so or
that they will do so. Many Montana
farmers who have studied this matter
are already well convinced that to in
stitute a class war in this state would
be the most harmful thing that could
be DONE 1t would not advance the
interests of the farmer but would in
jure them. Let our war be for all
Montana and let all Montanans get
into that sort of war; Let us fight to-
gether for every interest of the state
and for all citizens of the state. Let
us do our utmost for the state itself
And the affairs of this state should be
conducted by all the people of the
state, not by any class or in the in
terests Of any one class whatever thai
class may be.
Then, too, Montana farmers, like
Montana citizens of all classes, are
first of all American citizens The!
are loyal to this country and yer!
proud of the fact. They are distrust
full of an organization whose loyalt!
has been placed under suspicion b.
the seditious utterances of some of 1T
leaders. Some of those Montana far
mers who were early induced to joil
the organization are now apologizin'
for having become members of it an
are insisting that the men at the hea
Of the organization shall clear them
selves of the accusation Of disloyalt
Montana people are loyal and will no
stand for disloyalty wherever it ap
pears. And very many at least of tn
farmers of this state are strongly Q
the opinion that they will be niue
better off If they line up loyalty wit
their fellow citizens of all classes fo
the good of the whole state and for tn
success of the whole nation. If thi
organization expects to make an
great Roadway in this state, the lead
ers from outside the state who hav