Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-12-18
FARMER KEYSTONE
TO THE.ARCH OF
NATL PROSPERITY
Women viii Participate in
Presidential Elections in
Many States-Twenty-two
Have Ratified Amendment.

Washington, Dec. 15.-(Special.) }
At the recent meeting of the Ma
tional Republican committee, to put
into effect plans for the coming cam
paign, women participated in the Of
fetal proceedings. Women voters
will participate in many Of the states
in the next presidential election.
Eighteen of the twenty-five states
that have ratified the suffrage amend
ment are republican, and it was pre-
dicted that the remaining eleven re-
publican states, will ratify in time
for the women to participate in the
1920 presidential election.
In the 1916 election women, as an
analysis Of the vote shows, were in
fiuenced and deceived alike with
men, by the same promises of 'skept
us out Of war;"
Women are as keen and capable
of forming right conclusion on ma
tional questions as the average male
voter, according to experience in va
rious states where women vote on all
questions.
One of the delegates at the COM
mittee meeting was Governor Nickel
vie Of Nebraska, himself a, farmer,
who declared that the farming inter-
ests of the country have not been
fairly dealt with. He said:
"The farmer is the keystone to the
arch in the solution of our economic
problems He is both laborer and
capitalist. The products of his labor
are most vital to our existence. His
material assets are the largest of any
single class. He takes a comprehen-
sive view of current questions, indeed
there is no one that thinks more
clearly than the man who follows the
plow. asS
'sWhen our country entered the
war he was the first to bear the bur-
den and now that the war is over he
is still carrying the load. He is
prosperous, but this is in spite of op-
position and reverses rather than be-
cause of cooperation and assistance
from outside sources.
He gave his sons to war, he gave
his money, and he gave increasing,
relentless effort in the production of
the food and material that made it
possible to carry the war forward to
a successful consumnaation. He did
not strike, he did not lockout, he did
not organize to defeat the ends of
Justice or thwart the operation Of the
economic law. The length of his
working day was regulated by the
needs of the hour and when the crop
was delivered at the market he ac-
cepted the price that has been fixed
by the government Of some one else.
But with all this he has not been
blind to the ends to. which he is be-
Ing driven by the forces. that ignore
his interests and organize against
him. The day is here and the hour
has struck when the farmer must be
given fair and honest consideration
in the solution Of our national prob
lens.
What has the present national ad-
ministration done to give the farmer
relief? Very little, and for nearly
everything that it has tried to do its
uneconomical economics has produc-
ed a, worse condition. Price fixing,
inefficient transportation methods
and general ignorance Of the con-
dftions under which the; farmer is
Obliged to labor have created a well
nigh intolerable situation.
What Farmer Wants. J
What the farmer wants is coop.
Grafton from other interests and an
opportunity to Join with them in
solving the great national problems.
He loathes paternalism and he is last
OF Gil = socialist. With all those
facts indelibly impressed upon hi
!, mind, the farmer 10 more than ever
republican. for this: Is the party
that thinks and operates along the
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