The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-10
FARMERS WILL GO IT ALONE

FARMERS WILL GO 1T ALONE
"Let everybody go to work and
keep at work. is the key note OF the
address of Oliver Wilson, master of
the national Grange, at the fifty -third
annual convention of that organiza-
ton held at Grand Rapids, Michigan
on November 1921, and it fairly
epitomizes the sentiments expressed
by the delegates representing the
farmers from thirty-three states as
sembled on that occasion. Mr.. Will
son said in part:
eve cannot declare too strongly in
the midst of all chaos and uncertainty
of the hour that the sole and adequate
remedy for the consequences of war
prostration is for everybody to go to
work and keep at work.
mo investigation of our present
ills, and no suggested remedy for
their cure, will ever get us anywhere,
no matter though it cost into the bill
lions, which is not honest enough to
recognize that when production de-
creases, prices go up, and when idle
ness increases, morals go down.
by tremendous strides the working
hours of American labor have been
diminished and American efficiency
has decreased proportionately."
people who howl for a six hour
day and five day week, and who are
willing to go to any lengths to secure
these ends, have lost sight Of the
highest conceptions of human service;
and if modern energies were as vigor-
-ously applied to doing work as they
are to avoiding work, most of our re-
construction problems would vanish
and the future could be faced without
fear"
Mr.. Gompers' invitation to the ma
tional Grange that they send deleg-
alas to the so-called labor conference
at Washington, D. G. was declined in
very terse telegram. The invitation
was referred to a committee and was
afterward the subject of debate on the
floor of the convention, with the re-
suit that it was quite apparent that
the great majority of the delegates
were unalterably opposed to any af-
filiation whatsoever with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor for the fol-
lowing reasons:
1. There is no common ground be- |
tween the Grange and the A. F. of L.
z. There was very general feel |
ing among the delegates and the mem
bers of the Grange that the farmers |
had been Disseminated against dur
ing the war, while labor had not only |
every demand granted but every favor |
shown it.
3. That there was a pronounced |
feeling among the farmers that the
industrial ills of the country were due
to low production on the part of labor
while the farmers themselves had I
kept production above normal
a. That the farmers were confident
that increased production would
eliminate Industrial troubles to very
great degree, and the understanding
of the grange was that the program
of the proposed labor conference in
no way touched that very vital
matter.
"a "a -
A trial now in progress at Budapest
shows that 500 murders were COM
mitted in Hungary by order of Bella
Kun, the dictator, who is a typical
bolshevist with l. w. W. ideals, dur
ing his brief reign of few months.
Bella Kun, who was an agitator with
out means prior to being elevated to
the dictatorship, took many millions
Of dollars with him when attempted
to flee from the country and had a
vast fortune on his person when ar
rested, while the walls of his palatial
home, stolen from a member of the
nobility who was murdered, were
found to be filed with gold, silver and
jewels. He sure had the bolshevik
and T. w. w. idea down pat
p "a -
Captain Ross Smith landed in Aus
tralia today, ending an airplane flight
from England. Yet this achievement
hardly causes ripple of excitement.