The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-09-10
Sen. HARDING
Wins MINNESOTA
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work of Knute Heldner of Minneapolis
After the presentation by Herman
Roe, representing the State Fair board,
the senator made his first reference to
politics.
Fellow-C Citizens of Minnesota-it is a
matter of very great satisfaction and
a very particular interest to me to join
with you in this notable exhibition of
the agricultural industry of your Won
'derful state. | come to you with a COM
mon interest and a very common con-
Germ for the welfare of our country.
While it is in my thought to speak to
you specially concerning agriculture,
l want to so convey my thought as to
have it known that | am thinking not
of the welfare alone of those engaged
in agriculture but the welfare of agri-
culture as it relates to the good for
tunes of the United States of America.
l very much deplore the present day
tendency to appeal to the particular
group in American activities. 1t has
become a very common practice to
make one address to those who consti-
tute the ranks of labor, another to
those who make up the great farming
community and still another to the
manufacturing world and its associ-
ates in commerce, and to other groups
of less Importance. There is a very
natural and a very genuine interest in
each and every one, but the utterance.
of a political party nominee ought, in
every instance, to be inspired by a
purpose to serve our ommon country
If America is to go on and come to
the heights of achievement, we must of
necessity be call for one and n for
ALL"
That Dollar Wheat Tale
Let me say, in passing, I hope it
is entirely seemly to remind you that
no public man, particularly no public
servant from the great wheat raising
state of Ohio, would dare to think,
much less to say, he believed in dollar
wheat amid the price wildness which
the world is contemplating today. |
speak of it, because we are getting
acquainted today and do not mean to
have any misunderstanding between
you and me, and / will not be grossly
and unfairly misrepresented.
l have helped to cut 60-cent wheat.
I have known it to sell at 40 cents. |
have followed the cradle and sweated
behind the reaper when binding was
a cross to bear, and I know l spoke
the truth, when l said some years
ago, that Ohio farmers, in the normal
days before the war, rejoiced to raise
dollar wheat. That statement had nc
reference to wartime; lone to the pres
ent after-war period. Conditions, a.
we'll as prices, have changed since
made that perfectly natural and truth
full statement, and other great and i'm
portant changes are in contemplation
and no misrepresentation is necessary
to bring them about.
A good many years ago a Chinese
philosopher uttered a profound truth
when he said: "The well-being of a
people is like a tree; agriculture is its
root, manufacture and are
it's branches and it's life; if the root is
injured the leaves fall, the branches
break and the tree dies"
Cause for Concern
1t may seem strange to many good
people that at this particular time any
n should quote this saying of a wise
old chinese. Never in all history have
prices of farm products ruled so high.
measured in dollars as during the past
four years. Farm land in the great sur
plus producing states has advanced to
unheard of prices with every indication
that, but for the tight money condi-
tons, it would go still higher.
Apparently the farmers of the lane
are enjoying unprecedented prosperity
Why then even by implication, sug,
gest that something may be wrong
with our agriculture, and that the
trouble may be communicated to oun
manufactures and commerce? People
in the cities are disposed to think thai
if there is anything wrong it is in the
cities where food is selling at such high
prices and not in the country where
the food is produced. But both farm
and city student of national problem:
see in the present agricultural situa'
ton certain conditions which give
cause for real concern to every lovel
of this country.