The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-10-13
LET'S GET TOGETHER

LET'S GET TOGETHER
There are signs that business men of North
Dakota are becoming as greatly alarmed as
farmers over the situation in the wheat mar
ket. Any far-sighted business man ought to
realize that, if the farmers are robbed of from
s35. 900, 900 to $50, 200, 900 on this years wheat
crop. the farmers won't be the only sufferers.
Many business men will go bankrupt.
The wheat price is something that concerns
every citizen of this state. That this is begin
ming to be realized the attitude of the I. V. A..
indicates. The leaders of that organization are
beginning to have something to say, at last,
about the price of wheat. And even the Forum,
at the close of a long editorial recently was
forced to say:
You can't beat your %neighbor over the head
and expect him to cooperate, and the time is very
close at hand when here in North Dakota and in
other states, when the farmers and the bankers
and the business men and the workingmen and the
consumers have got to get together with their
feet under the same table, and work out a sensible
solution of the marketing problem which will
; protect the rights of all concerned. Calling your
%neighbor a thief and a gambler and a robber isn't
going to make that cooperation any easier.
The farmers Of North Dakota have from the
first been only too eager to cooperate with the
business men Of this state. There has never
been the slightest reason why business men of
North Dakota should oppose the farmers pro-
gram. It means prosperity for business men
as we'll as farmers.
Any time, therefore, that business men wish
to cooperate towards working out "a sensible
solution of the marketing problems" they will
find the farmers waiting with open arms. The
farmers will make just one stipulation. They
will cooperate with all legitimate business, but
not with illegitimate business. In the confer
ence between the business interests and the
farmers the gamblers won't be represented.
The farmers are thru with the gamblers. The
gamblers must go.
Certainly no legitimate business man wants
the gambler, any more than the farmer does.
The gambler is the foe of every honest man,
whether business man or farmer. When it
comes to the gamblers, the farmers of North
Dakota say amen to these words of Governor
Allen of Kansas-who is an old-line, conserva-
tive Republican:
The Kansas farmer has been the victim of
a gigantic steal. Export conditions dc not war;
rant such decreases as that of the last few days.
This practice of manipulating the market for the
benefit of wheat gamblers must be- stopped.
Governor Allen thinks the president, under
wartime powers not yet abrogated, has the
power to close the grain exchanges. If so, this
power should surely be used. Despite the fact
that the government report Yesterday showed
a still further decline in the 1920 crop. so that
the total yield will be 100, 900, 900 bushels un.
der the 1919 crop, the gamblers showed wheat
prices still lower.
From the day the gamblers took control OF
the market again, until the present, despite a
continual decrease in the prospective crop, there
mas been a continual decrease in price, It is
due simply and solely to the fact that the gam.
blers are robbing the farmers, to make up 70,
what they lost when the exchanges were closed
Dy the government. There is only one way t.
deal with such robbers, and that is to put them
out OF business. And all legitimate business
interests ought to be willing to work. as Gov
ernor Allen of Kansas apparently is, with the
farmers to put an end forever to gambling II
the necessities of life.-The Courier-News.
H AWAKENING IN SIGHT.
Mark Twain once said that everybody talk
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