Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-17

valley ~ ~ nav harmed In. the
last IS years. tha Mississippi val
ley, Witch 10 now The sranary q
the worbd, win be dotted with
bon win be on its decline. We
have got TO work for q. botter and
more permanent agriculture, and
there Is no way in tho world in
Y which that can be done as effect
Z lively % BY extending the Live
stock 60sanees In every direction.
A. The live stock Of the mississippi
valley. means a long vista down
he future q happy and propssr.
generations yet 30 come. Wher-
ever yo1 90 in the different cnum-
tries you win find the best aGri-
culture where you find tho best
live sock; you win find the most
fertile farms. where you find the
most live stock.
war won ia. Zelda
I want to speak OF or two things
and then I an done. We have just
emerged from the greatest war the
world has aver seen. That wal em-
phAsized a or two things that we
had not thought Of much before, al
years that America waAt approaching
the point Is q whole-where It could
no feed itsAlf. Our exports OF food
Stuffs were decreasing rapidly even
before the war, Then the war came on
and Europe was devastated, but by
the sacrifices which we practiced at
u own tables and by the superhu-
man efforts which the farmers and
live stock mel put forth, We vi able
not only to feed our own people, but
to feed the soldiers Of sui Allies in
the trenches and their civilian popula-
ton ina meaSure-at home It wa a
great achievement, and Il 10 not too
much to say that the Great War wa
won ~ much in the fields and feed
lots Of America aS 1t was On tho hat
tlefields 1T Flanders and Of France.
That raj a great achievement: it wal
Ar achievement Of which we ought to
be proud. But It ought to give us
pause. It ought TO make VI feel that
America shall not feed itself, then
America 10 IN deadly peril. It ought to
suggest to ~ that any nation. no mat
ter how wealthy or how powerful. il
in danger from all the world unless
within its own borders It raises the
food to support III own population.
Agriculture has beer, the basis Of our
prosperity and OF ri development,
but, my friends. II the time shall come
whom you cannot say Of America that
she 70 an Agricultural nation. the time
Of peril draws near. We who are con-
eerned with Agriculture. whether we
actually farm the land or whether we
are In agricultural colleges, O. county
agents, or. what Motive have the
heaviest responsibility upon us for the
future OF any claas OF our population,
in my belief, because we have to think
OF America first. L
Enemy Within Our Gates.
Let 1T not be forgotten that our
most dangerous enemy 10 NOT some
foreign land. He IL. now within
vi gates. He bears different
names. Sometimes 1t IL the Indus
trial Workers Of the World, some
times the Soviet, sometimes the
zone Big Union,'' and sometimes
Socialism. For years we hooked
upon the Socialist party 70 vision
airy but not destructive. But In
the swiftly moving events OF the
Last few years that party has
thrown of all dt1guisee True,
many Of its members have proven
themselves genuine pAtfiots and
q hopeleee minority. The Socialist
party sought In every way 1t could
TO obAttuCt the government IN the
prosecution Of the war. No me.
mdes have arisen within onr midst
who haven't had the sympathy
ana support Of that party. They
profe1s to love peace, but they
only march with case underthe
red ing OF revolution. An Of these
Of whom I have just spoken seek
By force and fawleo4ncss the over.
throw Of, the government which
WaanGton founded and Mncom
1eyed. It b to the farmers q" the
0oRntry we must turn II we are
70 combat this, the moat deadly
Of an ourssfoesl
FaxmerS 10 save America.
Just a. Il was the fArnnerssini theft
fields and their feed-lots who helped
save civilization: from military des-
pottspn, 20 It win surely be tho farm.
ers who will ave America IN this bat.
tie with a~narclis1n with which Amer.
lea and all the world IL threaten4d
Because the farmer loves his home
he honors women, he believes IN JUS
Itice. There 10 something lin the nature
tot the soil which excitss ~asfeeling Q.
patriotism az nothing else In all the
world can do. The ma who has q
field, I do not are how small o,
humble, has In affection for Il thai
he does not have for shS stocks o.
bonds or other evidences Of prosper.
ity. lit = only large enough 20 thal
he can Ne down upnnsitsin the mellow
into the Sky. thsre VIII burst from
his soul an emotion Of love Of coun,
try witch the denixen OF the city new.
Or feels, and that IL. why, when thu,
menAes 0& Bolshevim % In the air
WhAn men fear that It will over-rur
western Europe and then ask them.
selves wan tt come TO America !'.