Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-11
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0tSONA1AAy e Dr. Ladd president@of North Dakota -s 2, Agricultural college, is one of the new ',aJ United States senators. So far as known, 5a he is the nearest to a real farmer of any ns E member of that highly unrepresentative egS body. There are more than one hundred sial times as many farmers as lawyers in the
 country. Yet the senate is composed of s'~ mighty near hundred stimeA as many -" si lawyers as farmers.
 sI In fact practically all of our con- --e-z gresses ana legislatures represent the le-
 ss gal professien-and nobody else under '-sa heaven. except their clients past present DTS and hoped. for. This, while, a prolific r;9s source of sneers and eibes from the un- 2 represented majority, is nevertheless not s s subject for said unFepresented major 2 z ity to get mad about--beeause 1t is di- rectly and solely their own work. They alAare net compelled to elect anybody they
 .5h don't want te It Is perfectly within
 their cenpeteace to elect farmers or
 blacksmiuhs or bankers or greeers or a s.~7d brakemen or blackberry piekers if they s5o.io choose not to elect farmers and black c'.Has smiths, who are more accustomed to do- au ing things than to talking about them. nasand do choose to elect lawyers who are
 more accustomed to talking than to do- sriing, why that is their lndeniable right. .-s Having exercised it. it is more than
 right it is dictate of simple zdecency that they take their medicine .witAeat
 
 Men who make their ewn beds are not t's''.justifed in gro wing at anybody else if o- >d'the sheets are not properly tucked in. ros Some witty paragrapher once remark - tsed: ''Comiaon sense can't do much in 70 ricfpolitics when it Is outvoted." As it us- sJnally is at the polls and always is At the
 c-raucuses and conventions. e,FN ~ In the amazing rarity of that mis- aa.4ssealled common sense" 1t is something of 1or a wonder that man who even stands z'- within hailing distance. of the farm oraashould ever have been elected to the a-i.K United States senate. The wonder hav- -e shing ceme to pass. however. it becomes a 7-'1 somatter of general farm interest to know -iesvhat Senator Ladd will do or t.y to do. -e- SHe can hardly be both college president 70 srfand working farmer at one and the same -sr time But his position as head of an az -t.- ricultursl college certainly gives him a -r-closeF and clearer view of farmers preb- i sn-lems than is often visible to corporation ss .lawyer of the city.
 -s1 haven't happened to see the platform n'n~yhich he is said to have outlined for his !. z@ovn guidance. But an esteemed con- ssMsfemporary, which has, picks out four ss7s blanks which it endorses while admitting sAathat there are some otherS 1t does not -lzsagree with. I don't know what the lat --s -ster are. But here are the four which arc "' 0s said to be most acceptable:
 .--sE First: Farmers and censgnaers sheuld
 -vshave the leg1i right to combine for CO., cooperative selling and buyi2g' etc.
 -grSounds well, certainly. But,-haven't 7' ysthey that right already9 Why pass an . s rod other law for the courts to emaseulate Or .-s.sE1lnend nullify, as they have thus far esrsafreated existing laws? Tie trouble here
 as in too many other directions, is not sd; in the law but in the one-sded and un. ss fair administration of the law.
 a~.-. Second: "A law that win furnish loaa. ...af 10 farme-s at the same rate the govern sHent makes loans to bankers" etc. r'ssAgain, this sounds fair enough. Why sssmake fish of one and flesh of the other
 s If all farmers possessed the .hnahcia '~pAfu zcuteness and trained monetary ability ts,a Of professional bankers, it might work ~ tiBut-what reasonable basis is there fel ii0uu> assuming that farmer who can't make 4a d a. living on the cash basis will not onlJ ~ make living but also earn interest mon ey on a credit basis? Undoubtedly som, zls"rfarmers could do it. They, however, ar, 9e farHers of the sort who can pay theil vway without borrowing, l. e., who car oAEd already do manage without govern %l-ment ioans. It would be- rare and re -rs- naarkable farmer who, unable to carr .sivs a. living on his own lookout, shsuld no .ss . only make a living but also earn wac -e-rs of interest if somebody only lent him hssHothousand or two dollars
 ,.saF There is toe much credit in business "''' as 1t is. Everybody knows that price on nsneed not be anything ike so high as the! . are, if buyers didn't have sp pay not. onl,
 rf, for the goods they purchase, but also th ts~-s interest which the dealer is paying on hi ssoi1borrowed capital and their share of tn 5;s had debts which credit inevitably impose
 ~--a on him. k+- 5i44t 4t~c -f5s- Third: "A law which will discspraE -7 wfsrm tenancy etc. Great Scottl Mex snthing we shall have somebody preposnj
 Fsa law to "discoursg1 young birds iron trying tO iv hefOrP they ha ve fuIlv lea rn
 E'eed-hoy, or to rdscourage" primary school from teaching the alphabet te kddies wh
 7sren't yet able to read Hundreds an .rssrtheusands of young farmers, without can
 cl ikal to buy farms for themselves, groy
 7 up to such ownership by first workin
 nther mems farms tenants. Why i 4he name of common sense should any