The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-12
NATIONS FARMERS
GET INTO POLITICS
SERVE NOTICE THAT THEY ARE
CONC TO QUERY ALL cANol.
DATES FOR OFFICE
INVESTIGATE EACH AsPlRANT
No camouflaoe to Be Tolerated,
Chairman Of Combined oroanixa.
tions Declares.-strong, Faith.
ful Men Wanted

Washington. Feb. 21.-With the APP
pointlnent of committee Of seven
prominent farm organization leaders
to draw up platform" the Ameri-
can farmer. through the National
Board Of Farm Organizations, served
notice yesterday on present and pros
pective candidates that he is deter
mined to participate actively IN the
coming campaign. The platform viii
comprise questions designed to bring
out Enthusiastically the attitude Of each
candidate on matters which agricul-
turists consider of paramount imp"r-
lance.
G. s. Barrett Of Georgia. president
of the National Farmers Union. was
named chairman of the committee.
the other members being T. c. Alike
son of West Virginia. representing
the National Grange. Clifford Pinch"t
of Pennsylvania. the Pennsylvania Ru-
raj Progress association. J. r. Houston
of Wisconsin. secretary of the WiScon-
mond of Oklahoma. International Farm
Congress: D. Il. Cooper Of New York.
Dairymen's league: and j. r. Howard
Of Washington, American Farm Blu
reau federation.
1.-The committee. II I understand the
temper of organized agriculture.
Chairman Barrett said, Twill demand
a most comprehensive and unmistak-
able statement of the position of each
candidate on questions especially re-
lating to agriculture. The farmers
will not submit to camouflage. More
over, the committee will try to deter
mine, before submitting its findings
to the farmers, just what ability
candidate may have to carry out his
prediction promises. We must get
behind a strong. faithful. long-vision-
ed man. None other will suit"
The conference adopted resolutions
asking early appointment of an Amer
lean delegate to the international in
stitute of agriculture at Rome to sue
coed the late Daniel Lubin. approved
the Capper-Gersman bill restoring to
farmers the right to collective buying
and selling, expressed. confidence in
the federal trade commission in con-
nection with the imminent investiga-
ton of that body and petitiOned con-
gress to amend the farm loan act to in
crease the minimum loan from $1,000
to $4,000. The investigation from Sir
Horace Plunkett. as representative Of
Irish farm organizations, that delegn
ton be appointed to attend an interna
tional congress on agriculture at Dub
lin during the present year was ac-
cepted.
Maurice McAuliffe, president of the
Farmers Union of Kansas. said the
cooperative ventures of farmers in
the United States already handled bus
mess of one billion dollars annually.
and should easily increase to six times
that figure within a decade. He and
other speakers warned of the Obstruc-
tive tactics which would be made when
| this activity began to make dent
into the business of wholesalers"
Discrimination against cooperative
farm organizations by railway man
ayers already has become pretty gen.
eral. especially in the west" {. q.
Drayton of Illinois, president Of the
National Farmers Equity union. told
| the conference. He announced that
he would file formal complaint
with Director General Hines and
would support his charge with affi-
davits from scores Of exchanges con-
nected with organizations.