The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-04

the worlds greatest magnitude are here, but the
greatest lasting development for Montana's future
will come through advanced and scientific agriculture.
New and more successful methods are as sure to come
as were they to Kansas; and the Kansas of today is
only half the accomplishment of the Montana of
tomorrow. Whether it be the Montanans who are now
here who bring such to pass, matters not. Such con-
dition is bound to come. They who stand in the path
of such progress will but be brushed aside. Montana
is an agricultural state; the Montana farmer of to-
morrow is bound to be a prosperous farmer, and the
Montana city that today does most toward helping
It's farming industry is bound to be among the first
to constitute the hub of a prosperous and cOntented
Montana community.
There is no industry however vast, that even ap-
proaches in greatness and stability that of agricul-
ture; for. after the right methods are applied, it
looms forth as sure as the daylight after darkness
and as permanent as time itself.
Simply because of the fact that state has recently
passed through the shadows of menacing political up
heaval, and because that threatened rupture had its
source mainly with the farming ~populace, is by no
means proof that Montana's farmers are anarchists
or bolshevists. This but constituted the inevitable
which happens in such a time, as did the Populist up
heaval twenty-five years ago. 1t has been a sharp
reminder of the lack of understanding of the farmers
problems which has unfortunately existed among the
urban populace, a reminder that the urban citizen
cannot get along without the farmer and that the
farmer cannot get along without his ~neighbors in
the city. 1t is, further, a reminder that these two
must get together for mutual benefit.
Much is being done for the uplift of our farming
industry by our Government departments and educa-
tional institutions. Our federal and state depart
ments of Agriculture, with the local agents in prac-
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efficiency in recent years and the results of their la
bors are manifest on every hand. Our Agricultural
Colleges have gone far in dissemination of practical
farm knowledge, but the influence of these ~institu-
tons is not far enough reaching; the process is too
slow to meet the immediate needs of the day; the
work they do must be augmented and extended by
the public spirited men of every community before
it will become really effective in influencing general
results in any larger way.
The Farm Bureau organization has come as a
savior so far as farm organization is concerned. 1t is
the great hope of production and marketing and dis
tribution to the farmer. But even the Farm Bureau
cannot accomplish for the ommunity what is really
possible from it unless it has the whole of the COM
munity behind it.
1t being a fact, then, that the urban population
depend upon the farming territory adjacent; it being
true that what affects the farmer of the community
likewise affects the business thereof it is our manifest
duty as business men, not only to encourage produc-
ton, but to help food producing by lending to the
farmer our business association, our financial sup
port, and our business ability in the furthering in
every manner possible his organizations which have
for their aim, the furtherance of successful agricul-
ture and the general development of the entire COM
munity.
Tn" really successful community is not made up
of business men who are in business merely to make
money off the farmer, but rather of business men and
farmers who are capable of working together for the
betterment of the whole of that community.