The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-27

many thousands of struggling ex
amples that inning was long since due.
He is today the envy and admiration
OF hosts living in cities who are fight
ing. many under adverse conditions.
for their daily bread. His security
from want, because he produces for
himself and all the rest Of us. what
we all must have, makes him the
envy Of those not so fortunately
situated So far as generous living Ia
concerned there is no problem OF keep
ing the wolf of hunger from the farm
er's door. He must have enough and
to spare, or the world starves.
Let it be said that the farmer is not
ravenous for high prices, but he be-
lieves in fair" prices for what he
works SO hard to produce. He want.
a profit. and, with rare exception, Is
willing that the man he deals with
shall have as liberal a profit as cir
cumstanoes and markets warrant. In
order to assure fair prices every year,
and that he may have some say as to
what his own goods are worth, he has
Joined the Grange, local farm associa-
lions and farm declarations. That he
will align with farm organizations is
but natural; that he will ever serious
ly mix up with any kind of labor or
ganization. or become a part of the
American Federation of Labor, as
many have predicted, seems unworthy
of argument.
Why Farm Federations7
W. H. Hickman, editor Of the
Hoosier Farmer, official organ of the
Indiana Federation OF Farmers
stated in a recent editorial that farm
ers are beginning everywhere to
realize the need for organization, and
for this reason:
'They see that We are facing or
ganized men and women in classes and
oecupational pursuits, organized to
safeguard and promote class interests
and class welfare. They see that indi
viduai units, no matter how many
there are, cannot hold their own in
competing for just margins on pro
duets against organized interests
Even these small local organizations
at best are like guerilla squads facing
an organized army. The farmer sells
at wholesale and buys at retail. He
has little to say on fixing the prizes
of his products to the buyer and the
price is fixed for him by the seller.
1.-THE hat on his head represents or
ganized labor and organized capital
the collar and tie around his neck. or
ganized labor and oragnized capital
the shirt on his back, organized labor
and organized capital; glove on hi:
hand, coat on his back, his suspenderf
and knife in his pocket, shoes on nj:
feet, organized labor and organized
capital When he dies he is put away
in a coffin made and controlled by or
ganized labor and organized capital
He furnishes nothing but the corpse
He is lucky to get buried without {
strike"
An Army With Banners.
After explaining that the farme
does not desire to cease dealing will
organized labor and organized capital
but to be able to meet them boil
with a powerful organization, unde
competent leadership. backed witl
money, to find out wrongs and to cor
rect wrongs" the editor goes on tt
say:
Here we are in the seventh montt
Of our organization, a wonder to on
critics. a Joy to our friends, an arm,
, with banners, forty thousand strong
; seventy-fve counties, federated an,
by the time this is read we will hav'
passed into the eighties.
| 1--WE have met preiudiced an
suspicion created in the public min,