The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-16
0'C0NN0R HOLDS
COOPERATION IS
FARMERS NEED
Points Out Steps That Have
Been Made w Where Real Or
ganizatiOn is Effected
REVIEWS FARM SITUATION
Talks to Minot Audience of
Problems That Are Facing
People of State

Minot, Oct. 16-Real cooperation
by farmers, along lines which have
proved successful, is advocated by J.
F. r. O'Connor. fusion ticket candi-
date for Governor, as the great con-
structive need of North Dakota
Speaking to an audience here. where
he had crowd double that when
Townley had in another city meet
ing, Mr.. O'Connor went into detail
in discussing the cooperative move
ment.
The fusion ticket candidate is not
preaching something new when he
breaches this doctrine. He has owned
stock in farmers elevator and has
preached cooperation for years Such
cooperation cannot come, through the
Vaccinations OF. politicians who adopt
farmers program to gain votes
with the intention of accomplishing
socialism.
Mr.. O'Connor admitted that when
there is such difference between
what the producer receives for his
products and what the consumer pays
for the same products, there is a
problem for the thinking men and
women of the state to solve and
while he pledged himself to an honest
and sincere effort to make the state
owned mills and elevators of North
Dakota a complete success, he de-
clared that the farmers of North Da-
kota should organize into units of a
great cooperation organization that
would embrace the entire state and
through this organization dispose OF
their stock and their grain just as the
farmers of California dispose of their
fruit and the farmers of Denmark
dispose of their products. He pro-
posed having a state manager for
such an organization and this state
manager could invade the grain or
stock markets with a selling power
that equalled the selling power, OF all
the farmers of North Dakota and
then could demand his price.
Reviews Long Fight
In discussing the marketing prob
lens now confronting the farmers OF
North Dakota, the speaker told OF the
| long and tedious fight the farmers
had made for terminal elevator and
reviewed the passage of the terminal
elevator bill in the legislature four
| years ago, explaining that the
measure called for the expenditure
of S3OO,O00 one-third of which had
been provided for and the balance
to be raised by direct taxation. he
told how he voted for the measure
at that time and sof his surprise when
Governor Lynn j. Frazier exercised
his veto power to veto the bill, CIV
inc for his reason that he was not IN
sympathy with the measure because
it provided for 100000 being raised
bv direct taxation. Mr.. OConnor
| reminded his hearers that at the last
session of the Legislature Governor
Frazier did not, veto "a measure pro
yfding for the expenditure of $2Oo,ooo
for immigration purposes, the money
! to be raised by direct taxation. -,
Had that terminal elevator Dill
not been vetoed by Governor Frazier,
the sneaker declared, that elevator
would now be in operation and II we
desired to we could add other units
to it and make it larger, provided We
believed the venture success NO"
it will require 100000 to cover the
cost of structure S3OO,ooo wouia
have built four years ago. II any
other governor had vetoed such Il
measure and delayed the program de-
manded by the farmers OF North la
kota, he would be heralded as one
who had been bought by the gram
combine and other interests. But
when it was their own governor the
! Nonpartisan league papers tailed To
accuse him of working against th2
interest of the people OF North Ia
kota.'