The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-18
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FARMERS SOLID
AGAINST RADICALS
Convention Adopts ResOlu-
ton Against Bolshexism
and Anarchy
MUST CLING TO
BASIC PRINCIPLES
Safe Practices of the Past Can Save
I Country From Unrest Probably
: Will Declare Themselves Against
Monopoly and Cooperative Buying.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S.-Represen-
tatives of farmers assembled in annual
convention in Washington under the
auspices of the National Board of
Farm Organizations opened proceedings
yesterday with the adoption of a reso-
luton condemning bolshevism and radi-
calism as danger to the country. The
resolution was adopted amid applause
and pledged American farmers to stand
:. like a stone wall +" against the radical
minority.
There were present at the conference
farmers from states extending all the
way from the Atlantic seaboard to
California, and not even the delegates
from North Dakota, the home of ultra
radicalism as far as the farming COM
munity is concerned. took exception to
the declaration of the resolution which
put private property among the sane
titles, and side by side with "'personal
liberty and personal security as guar
anteed by the constitution of the Unit
ed States.
John D. Miller, vice president of the
Dairymen's League of New York. of
fered the resolution, embodying the dee
laraticn of policy, as follows:
All great wars have been followed
by periods of unrest, and as the recent
world war was the greatest of history,
so is 1he resulting unrest.
: In this time of stress and strain
and doubt, when it is so difficult to
find standard from which to measure,
there is one and only one safe way, and
that is to cling to the basic principles
that have carried the American people
through other periods of stress and
strain and doubt
The great rights of free men are
those of personal liberty personal Sc
enrity, and of private property A
denial of one or more of these rights
has erimsoned the pages Of the world s
| history
1.-The farmers of America hold these
rights to be priceless and stand like a
stone wall against the radical minority
that are advocating bolshevism. anar-
| ehy, and ultra socialism, each and all
| of which are SO destructive of the right
of private property and undermine the
very foundation of government.
Further resolutions probably will be
| adopted putting the farmers on record
| as resenting the power of monopolies
| over the commodities of the nation
and as ready to cooperate with the
general public to oppose the encroaeh-
ments of. capitalism on the one hand or
the radical elements in labor on the
other. The tone of the gathering is
| distinctly conservative. A resolution
will also be adopted urging on the con-
sumers CT the country to organize under
the law cooperative purchase move
mentS to reduce the cost of living and
To bring the producer and the consum-
| er together in a campaign to eliminate
the profiteers, large or small.
William B. Colver chairman of the
| federal trade commission, RECALLED an
amused audience with an account of the
activities of the packers in the effort
to defeat any legislation to bring them
under the control of the government
Mr.. Colver strongly intimated that
many of the witnesses who appeared
before the senate committee considering
| the Kenyon Kendriek bill had had their
/ NNBNAANH Rctib ~ lAS HdChSio
Mr.. Colver submitted some facts rel
alive to what he calls the 1920 model
! trust which consists he said, in a
/ gigantic undertaking, not to combine
dealers in the same articles, but to
combine into q trust dealers in all com
/ peting commodities.
To deal with the new phenomenon
| said Mr.. Colver, Ftthe existing anti
trust laws. are practically useless
Several delegates expressed dissatis-
faction with the representation given
to agriculture in the national industrial
conference called by President Wilson
for October 6. Milo d. Campbell de-
clared that "a delegation of three men
to represent 40,000,000 farmers was not
adequate, and decried what he asserted
was purpose to blame the farmer for
the high cost of living. John s. McFar-
rem of Furness. Pennsylvania, urged
moderation. He said the farmers were
not sufficiently well organized to de