The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1921-07-21
BRYAN DISCUSSES FARMER

for twenty years now, the SUB
editor of the Pioneer-Review, {
staunch republican, has testified
to his admiration of that mar
Bryan. You may damn him all
YOU please, and all the local PHILIP
democrats have damned him round
y since the day he left the Wilson
cabinet, but just the same the
man has lot of traits that we
rather like. Certainly his leaving
the Wilson cabinet was dignified
and serene enough. There was no
clatter about it. Bryan has given
out no interviews, and has written
no books about his experience as
secretary of state. Yet he very
probably has very interesting
book in his system, if he cared to
publish it.
But we just started out to cali
the' attention of our readers to an
article Bryan has recently publish
ed under the title "The Farmer
Dies Last We commend it to
the thoughtful reading ofo ur sub
scribers. Here it is:
In fight to the death the far
mer will die last. If a big business
thinks it can bleed him without
limit it had better consider his
resources. When it comes to the
pinch he can stand squeezing bet
ter than any other class. Food is
the first necessity, and he can feed
himself. He can raise all that he
and his family need, but If he
raises no. more than he needs the
rest Of the people will starve. The
farmers surplus supplies the world
suppose the surplus fails?
THE farmer can raise the mat
erial necessary to clothe himself
and family-wool, cotton and silk,
but if he raises no more the rest
of the people will go naked. 1t is
the farmers surplus material that
clothes the world-suppose the
surplus fails?
"The farmer can, if necessary,
produce his own fuel. He can
raise his own wood; he can burn
corn cobs and even corn if he
must, but what will become of
the railroads when the farmer
neither buys nor sells?
What will become of the pack
ers when they have no meat to
pack? And what will become of
the grain gamblers when there is
no market grain to gamble on?
What will become Of the little
stores when. the farmers cease to
trade? And what will the whole
salers do when the little stores
close? And what will the manu-
factlWers do when the wholesalers
go out of business? And what will
the clerks in the stores, the work
ers in the mills and railroad en-
ployes do when business stops?
And what will the banks do when
they can not grow rich loaning
the peoples money? What will all
the people do when nobody needs
them? What? Go to work WITH
THEIR HANDS and gring a living
from Mother Earth--that is the
last resort as it was in the first.
will the middleman continue
to lord it over the producers of
wealth, or will they learn that they
must SERVE if they would live,
and serve for reasonable toll? The
flower that blooms in beauty on
the stem should not despise the
roots that do their work in the
dirt. The roots will live when the
flower fades-not only live but
furnish sustenance for new flow
ers, season after season. So with
the farmer, he lives near to Ma
ture's heart, he draws the milk
from Natures breast and Nature
will protect him as a mother pro-
tects her child. He will be last to
die in the struggle for existence.
But why this conflict? Why not
love and brotherhood and cooper
alton? Why not work together for
the common veal? Why not justice
to each and all?'