Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-03-24

to wonder why this can be SO. And we
begin to talk about it. After some time
we ask questions like this: why is
it that We in this land of plenty, shall
come short all the timer When we
buy at the store, we think the prices
are too high, and when we sell our pro-
ducts or our daily labor, we think we
do not get quite enough pay. Well
then. does not that look as though we
are people who never can be satisfied
Yes, it does look so, and we are told
this both in our daily life and in our
daily papers. When we then begin to
think to ourselves and try to find out,
if that really is SO, we come to the
conclusion that this is not true. We
will be satisfied, when we can meet
our expenses; but we are not satisfied
with being short all the time in this
land of plenty. Then we all begin to
look farther and look around to see,
if we can understand, why this is So
and how it all can be. We want to
know about it.
Farmers and city workers ask, How
understand, when we work so hard all
the time and always come short with
our money.
But then we are fortunate. The big
business knows, and our daily papers
know and are willing to tell us all
about it. Yes, they have told us for
long time, and they are so wonderfully
willing to tell us all today. And we
hear and we read; but the funny thing
is. that we do not come any farther.
We cannot get the ends to meet in
decent way. How is it with most of
YOU farmers of today-do you find it
goes, as you think it ought to go?
Yes, they tell us all about it.. They
tell us city workers, that the farmers
,ol, l.. g..
sell, and that is the reason why living
is SO high in the city. The farmers are
the ones, who get the big profits now
a-days. And the big business men get
just a small profit for what they are
doing. But, when they come to you
farmers, they say the prices are so
high now because the workingmen of
today want such big Wages-the work.
ing people are the ones who get rich
nowadays. Haven't you farmers seen
in the daily papers how we working
people rake in the big piles of money
now? You have all read about it in
the daily papers and the American
magazines, that we get SO many of
nowadays. And of course you be-
lieve it. don't you? And by reason of
that, We working people are against
you farmers and you farmers are
against us. Is that not so? And con-
SeQuently, we cannot work together
when it comes down to political affairs,
and through such work, better our con-
ditions. Is that not the case, or at
least. has it not been the case?
Lately, though, we have come to
question some Of this; and good many
of us do not believe as before all the
untrue statements, that we hear and
read in the daily papers. Those of us,
who have been together with farmers
and have known better, have for a
time doubted all those so beautifully
put up stories, that we have been fed
on. We know now, that many of the
things which we read in our daily
papers are untrue and put there for
the purpose of confusing US common
people. I suppose you have seen in
the papers, that we working men get in
wages in the last few years from
100000 all the way up to $1,000. 90,
and still we want more. You farmers
have seen that, haven't you? Now, 1