The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-11-01

OlllCl lids OccH ORGANIZED, oil u
which, up to the present time, have
failed of their correction.
"A recent development in farm
organizations has been the organi.
cation of the Non-P Partisan League
That there has been a Legitimate
cause of complaint and a deep un.
DERIVING sentiment of discomfort is
evidenced by the rapid growth oil
this society and its almost univer.
sal acceptance by the farmers oil
the northwest. This is an expires.
sion of an economic movement
among the agricultural classes Of
our section that cannot be ignored
1t is proof positive that there are
reasons for complaint and that lit.
tie effort has been made looking tc
their correction.
1T is a we'll known fact that the
farmer with 100 or $40 acres OF
land to which he devotes his entire
time and in many instances the time
of his wife and of his grown and
growing children has been barely
able in most instances to earn a
living equal to what he could have
earned if he had sought employ
ment in some field of labor, or had
invested the equivalent of the value
of his farm in some small business
in a neighboring city. That this
condition exists is a proof that
something is wrong economically.
The farmer is convinced and has
been convinced for years that the
wrongs from which he suffers are
due in a large measure to his lack
of organization and cooperation
for protection. 1t is true, as he has
pointed out, that all other classes
of citizens, business men, profess
sional men and laboring men are
organized into associations and
unions for the protection of their
interests. That the injustices from
which the farmers are suffering can
be corrected or ameliorated is pat
ent to all.
1T is unfortunate that an organi-
cation of farmers could not be eff
fected under circumstances that
would not arouse the violent oppo-
sition of the people living in the
towns i'll the farming communities
in which such organizations are
1t is unfortunate that the
organizers of this recent farmers
movement should have based their
appeals for membership in many in
stances upon the charge that the
business people of these agricultur-
al towns were personally respons-
IDLE for the conditions against
which the farmers complain and
protest. The farming business cam
not be made successful without the
cooperation, interest and confid-
ence of the people in the towns.
People in the cities cannot succeed
in their business without the farm
ers.
"The farmer, in resentment
against the unfair economic condi-
tons that deprive him of the profit
of his land and labor, is sometimes
of the problems that con-
front the business men that he
meets from day to day. The farm
er should be as just in his demands
as any other class of men. The I'm
derstanding that one mans rights
end where another mans rights be-
gin must be kept constantly before
any class of people who are seeking
to better their condition. In order
that the state may prosper as a
whole, it is necessary that all clas-
ses of citizens should prosper toge-
Their.
I'm travelling from one section of
the state to another, and in my ira
vels I covered almost the entire
state. the question as to the cause
Of discomfort among the farmers
complaint from them be-
cause of the deduction by the ele-
vator and flour mill interests of
the state of the freight rate from
point of shipment to St. Paul, from
the St. Paul price, the addition of
freight rate from St. Paul to
common points to the
price of the flour which they had
to buy regardless of the fact that
in most instances the flour that
they purchased was ground from
grain and never left the
building in which it was bought un-
Ill it was converted into the flour
hat they were compelled to pur-
the grading of their grain
INTO classes below the grade that
t was subsequently sold for in St.