Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04
City WOrkmen and Sod Busters
Reciprocal Markets
to Each Other
ALL MUST COOPERATE
In Modern Society the Producing EIe-
ments Are I~nseparabIy Linked
Together and Cannot Thrive
Otherwise.

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reciprocal markets. This is true be-
cause the farmers who farm the farms
are engaged, not in producing lux
urieS for b~illionaires, but in the pro-
duction of the basic life necessities,
food, clothing, etc.
The natural economic system is di-
Nided into but two parts. First, that
section through which society gathers
the raw materials, Such as the prod
ucts of the farms, fisheries, forests
n mines, necessary to its existence;
and, second, that section which turns
the raw materials into finished prod
uctS and distributes them, in the form
of commodities, to users, in which sec
ton come the workers in the factories,
offices, banks and on the railroads
and ships.
This being true, it becomes clear to
all thinking people that, in modern
society, the welfare of the farmers
and agricultural workers is absolutely
bound up With the welfare of the in
dustrial and d~istributive workers. AS
II class suffers or prospers, so will
the other.
Prices Fall With Wages.
AS wages and salaries are driven
to and below the cost Of existence, the
prices of farm products will newt
ably follow TO the same point-the
point of mere subsistence income-the
point where the free worker becomes
Il peon and the free farmer ~ tenant.
This is true because YOU farmers can
not take out of Il market more than
is paid into it as wages and salaries.
If this contention is Incorrect, then
how can Ii explain the fact thal, uc-
cording to ali census figures, the aver
age Annual income Of the farmers OF
the United States about equal the
average annual income OF the indus
trial workers?
There is no explanation for thiS fact
other than has been shown. viz: You
cannot take out Of Il market moe than
is paid into it in wages. Hence ii
follows MS The night the day, chat us
the standard Of living falls for the
workers i'll the great basic industries,
the standard Of living will also fall
on the farms. There is no escape
from this iron law, the ignoring of
which has streWn and is still streWing
the continents with the ruins Of eH!-
pires.
Far from the real interests Of the
farmers being antagonistic to the
workers in the industries. and vice
versa, us the Economists ca Of the
plutocracy contend, the interests of
these W great natural subdivisions
OF society are, in reality, rs one, for
they are to each other reciprocal mar
J. IS and, So, are bound together for
sood IL ill. for life and death.
Gamblers to Blame.
1t is the gamblers and pro1iteers
who, having %insinuated themselves be-
tween these W. great productive
classes, and two take toll first off one
and then the other-it is these para
sites who, by control Of the press and
all other avenues Of publicity and
education, keep the producers apart
n poor. Desperately, now rs in the
times of old. the kept classes strive to
divide and conquer, for well they
know that once the producing classes
recognize this truth, that, by The iron
law OF nature, the great, great major
ity Of mel and Women must, now and
always labor for their living: then. in
that hour of recognition of truth, the
p%roGuring classes will come together
in one, mIgnuy economic organization,
having for its motto the commandment
of the Apostle Paul: IF a maj will
not work, neither shall he eat"
This fear, the unity of the INDUS
trial and agricultural productive
classes, is what is haunting the plu-
tocracy and its intellectual and po}it-
ical llirelings in those United Sl.tas
today, for they know 1hat once the
producers awaken to the truth i,.lt
you cannot take more out d :,t
than is paid into it, the el eco
nomic kaiSeriSm is II hand.
New lork.-A co-o:arnl r,gar
factory which Will sci! T. ,l9t - nv
mail order to union %u%.ulll =, ilAS
just been opened here und t. IN" G.Itv-
ton of the Union Cigar '.r"s' CO.
operative society Of New Inrk. The
venture has been incorlmr; ed for
$4,000, and will have n capacity for
so workers, who will be chosen b. lot
from among the members of The So
ciety, all of whom are union members.
Man Is continually saying to
woman: Why will you not be more
wise? Woman is continually saying
to man: "Why will you not be more
loving?" 1t is not in their wills to be
wise or to be loving, but. unless each
Is both wise and loving, there can be