The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-06
oncrete Property Cooper
hive Effort reduces Will
Endure When Agitator
Is Forgotten
IPERIENCE OF EUROPE
.Ows What Generations of Ex-
perimenting Have PRODUCE
ed-Patriotic Appeal

A1S AAS Ill pOllLlcS, Mlllar0 II
'ers, editor of the Cooperative Jour
i, told an audience of farmer grair
DWers and elevator men which fill
the municipal auditorium las
INT. "The solution lies in something
sper, more basic and more lasting,
q the Chicago farmer editor. 1.-THE
svators which we buy and own anC
mills which we build and the other
:'manent property which we acquire
cooperative effort will endure 10C
ars from now when the politicians
o come to us with their quack rem
es will have persisted from the face
the earth and have been forgotten
i come here tonight fresh from a
lr Of Europe and careful study of
, generations of successful coopera-
9 enterprise. l come to say that, in
!, light of what | have learned over
,re, am confident our farmers are
ng blindly into a lot of things
ich are fOredOomed to failure"
The speaker mentioned packing
nts, cooperative store and other
.erprises, into which the farmer
IS with little or no advance know
ge of the business, into which he
IS comparatively little capital and
: which he can give little or no time.
Against State Ownership
lie declared against state owner
ip and for a cooperative democracy.
the same breath he asserted his be-
that cooperation will never ach.
Q monopoly, and he told of condi-
MS prevailing in London, where the
tdesmen insisted the cooperative
rkmen's stories were a monopoly
UGH could not be competed with,
4 he told how Chicago merchant
ut over to London and in the face
this competition from workmen's
list founded the greatest depart ment
ire in Europe and made of it Won
rful success. Cooperation, he de-
red, will furnish the balance wheel,
.iJe- private ownership will continue
supply initiative and efficiency. The
WORKING hand in hand will solve
} futures problems for the consum-
and the producer.
He likened the farmers movement
America to a stately ship, every
1t of whose crew and her mach
,ry is indispensable. Most indispen-
lie of all, he declared, is the pilot,
d this has been lacking, he said, in
many of the farmers organizations
itch have sprung up spontaneously
combat a great wrong. They have
undered around, steering no definite
arse with the tiller in inexperienced
INSCRIPTIONS hands, and have ulti-
lte]y foundered.
Mr. Myers made an appeal to the
triotism of the North Dakota Far
Or Grain Dealers association, and he
srcLuced during his remarks pat
,tic original song, which he sang
tn great effect.
Different Organizations.
Continuing, the speaker said:
There are about three kinds of or.
mutations of farmers in America,
hical, political and economical. Uni
rsities and colleges send out men to
We certain kind of education. You
Ter your assistance. Your clubs and
stitutes offer education and enter
inment. That is ethical. 1t is good.
le second is political. You try to get
On to vote in a certain way, to do
rtain things. Perhaps it is good. |
We never yet been converted to be-
we it will be long lived or that it
IL render very material services. |
.lieve that the history Of the past
ii bear me out when | say that the
ing which will live, which you men
i'll pass to your children is economi-
i. The institution that you build
,wn home and you put ten to fifteen
twenty thousand dollars into, that
the one you expect to will to your
.ildren. 1t will take the grain off your
rm now and when you have been
id away after you have done your
.e's work your children and your chill
ems children will continue to haul
e product of that soil to the same
,use, ten years after, fifty years at
+, yes hundred years from today
at economical institution will stand
ere, If built on the cooperative plan
,tween the farmer on the farm and
,e outside market world. So come
you and ask you to solve your prob
ms today along economical lines,
i'd to be mighty careful that you
mt line up politically as neighbors
,ainst each other and divide your in
renee. Attend to the growing and the
arketing of your crops and then you
iii be able to get what is right, no
after who is elected to Office.
The First Man.
IL sometimes have read about man
no sinned His name was Adam. He
red way back there in the Garden of
den. You know Adam was cursed
id told to go out and be farmer.
nyhow, he was to earn his bread by
e sweat of his face. have studied
e condition of farm folks over in
yypt, In central Europe and along
e American coast all the way from
ZEN until now and / am going to look
III squarely in, the face and say !
mt believe there has ever been q
me or 4 place anywhere in the world
le farmer has had an opportunity
market his grain on as fair and
basis as the grain growers
the grain belt in the United States
America enjoy t0Gay. mean, OF
,urse. where you have cooperative
evator company to deal with-and
ERE only.
II do not want to give out the I'M
ession that believe we can never
,nvnva conditions In terminal mar