Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1920-11-16

is engaged at high wages for limited
working dayY
Do these matters worry the depart
mentf of Agricultural Not very much.
busy playing politics, selling itself 10
the people through expensive propagan-
'da that does not tend 10 profitible az
ricultnre. As II is, the department can
tell 4 farmer almost anything he wants
to know except how TO make money by
farming. Science Is placed ahead Of
profits, hut Il Is well known that II il
money and not pure strains that make
the mare co. And the Graphic Is not
diseomting the importance OF scientif-
ic agriculture at all. With American
agriculture PROSTATE. what II the de-
partment Of agriculture doing TO amel-
iorate the hard conditions? IL Is safe
to shy that the department is ignorant
OF the world supply OF and demand
for foodstuffs, and that u hasn't an
adequate idea OF the economic factors
involved in the breaking down OF agri-
culture I'm America that have caused
the drop I'm prices, seemingly in def
ance OF the law Of supply and demand.
Bulletins, bulletins. about hog cholera,
the home beautiful on the farm. and
chicken diseases, but never word
about how TO maintain prices that VIII
allow farming operations 10 go for
ward on n sound business basis.
The city jewellers believe that the
farmers have "cinch' and are stead
lily growing richer ut the expense Of
those who do not produce their owA
10.
ate In their inability TO make the gov
ernment. run In the interests of indus
try and commerce, and the industrial
classes see that they are being fed at
the cost OF an all-h0ur day. the sweat
and blood OF unrequited labor. The
farmers alliance, the populist move
ment and the n0n-partisan league have
been touted as papaceas TO which the
farmers can turn for relief. These
political organizations of Glasses may
show slight local and transient results,
hut they are essentially un-Amcrican
and tend TO make the farmers the tools
Of selfish demagogs. The attempt to
link the industrial workers with farm
owner is illogical-the interests OF the
two classes are opposed 10 large ex-
tent. The Industrial workers are well
taken care Of In their unions the far
mers should have their organizations OF
| like character. viii farmers turn the
grindstone for labOrers who talk glibly
OF 6 and 7-hour days ut high wages
The farmer Is capitalist before he Is
n laborer and he must demand the
rights of capitalist In cnpitallstic
] Nh. fa linn {
seems to promise the basis OF an econ
omic organization that will replace the
hectic political activity that arrives nj
no destination The control of farm
affairs must be vested In farmers; they
and not the dealers in farm products
must say when, where and at what
price the products Of the soil must b,
sold. This Is only good business and
does not smack more Of monopoly than
other combinations Of capitalists. The
city dwellers. however, won't like II
and must be educated up to the point
The country press, rather than the
national farm journals must he IN,
) spokesman for the farmers. The aver
, age rural editor is In touch with tn,
! farmers who are his patrons and In
b should tell the world Of their needs
: The farm journals find their inspirat
ion in the city and are conducted b.
| press agents OF big business. The rur
t al press Is the most powerful Of al
: in America. yet the average farm or
1 ganization Is the first to deny IL
5 right to exist. The farmers must b
{ shown what mighty weapon thei
r press Is and prevailed upon TO use tn