The Washington times., 1920-01-27
FARMERS MAY RULE
|. COMING CAMPAIGN
Leader Of Cooperative Union
Declares They Purpose to
Elect Next President.

You men OF Capital and Labor"
says Charles Simon Barrett. president
OF the Farmers National Co-operative
Union in Hearst's Magazine for jan
uary, may as we'll understand at this
time that you are not going TO be per-
mitted to run away with the country.
Tho farmer outvotes you both ten to
one.
"He is 4o. 900. 900 TO your 1000 900. He
has his own Gauge TO plead. hts
wrongs to right. his reforms to press,
and he is going TO press these with
all the reborn vigor OF organization,
earnestly, tenaciously, mistakenly,
until they are answered. But he is
going to make this fight with a due
consideration for the whole country.
THE farmer loves his country. IL is
founded on the soil which the farmer
owns. And the 100000 American
farmers intend to see to II that neither
capital with its greed nor labor with
its cruel strikes shall destroy this
country that they love.
"The farmer hates Bolshevism. He
does not aid-but bitterly opposes
strikes that are unreasonable in de
mand and cruel to humanity In cx-
ecution. He scorns the greed of The
profiteer that would exact it's pound
of flesh from every transaction Of
men.
"He despises all means that aim at
the subversion OF the American Con-
stitution, and he would fight to the
last ditch TO save this country from
the infsmy OF "the Reds" or from the
diabolism OF the l. w. VS."
But no not for one moment think
that the farmer will not fight for his
rvn rights and does not intend now
and hereafter to do so. That Is just
exactly what he is doing or beginning
TO DO now, with a more powerful and
effective equipment than he has ever
had before in all his history.
"And the farmer has rights to night
for. and interests to protect which
have been altogether too deeply and
generally ignored by the lawmakers
and the State. The farmer has had.
II not enjoyed. for half century the
lavish laudations of publicists and
every God blessed politician that had
the hunger OF office in his heart. lie
has been told increasingly that he
is the salt Of the earth the founda-
ton stone of prosperity the basis
of government and that there Is
nothing in the heavens above or the
earth beneath or the waters under
the earth that Is TOO good Tor MN.
And the dear. patient simple.
longsuffering Reuben has swallowed
these sounding shadows while the
glitterins substance went to aggres-
sive capital and aggressively organ
lied labor.
Because he was not organized ano
not aggressive the farmer has had
nothing but heavenly sounds to f-cu
his soul!
But the farmer is organized now.
and organizing very fast. He is be-
ginning actually to believe some Of
the, things his flatterers have told
him. He is beginning to realize his
strength, to have a Just estimate of
his economic value to the world and
a just appreciation Of his right to
be recognized in his right and his
Importance. He takes back seat in
the synagogue no more.
The farmer is at last alive and
alert and organized to the omnipotent
power of the ballot.
Let me give you a little secret
upon which / do not impose any limi-
tations of secrecy:
''Thc American Farmer in going to
elect the next President of, the United
States!,