The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-02-10
Sympath e t ic with their
movement to get remedial
legislation but points
out that all American
prosperity is riding
in the same boat
PLEADS FOR JOINT
INQUIRY INTO FACTS
Insists that grievances OF
the farmer must be re-
dressed and that way
can be found without
injury to others.
BY EDWARD PERCY HOWARD
Editor. in chief, Autooaster Services

Editor in chief, Autooaster Service
The spectacular activities of the Ma
tional Agricultural Conference COUP
led with the persistent work or the
farm bureaus and the general move
-aants for cooperative selling have
brought sharply TO the front and I'm
pressed upon the public mind the faet
that the welfare OF the farmer can no
longer be ignored with national saIe-
Nv Also the fact is sensed In the
world of finance that the attitude Oh
business generally towards the prop
is,ns of the farmer must be one OF
syrnpathetic CO. operation rather than
a further pursuing of the belief that
fire interests of manufacturing and n
nance and the interest of agriculture
arc distinct units to which economic
laws prohibit mutual prosperity.
What Financier Thinks of the
Farmer.
one of the first men of note to sound
a warning against any growing Ieellhs
calculated to estrange the farmer from
the business man is Otto IL. kahn' one
of the wealthiest and most astute u
nanciers in the country.
Mr.. Kahn has set down In concrete
form his thought in connection with
the farmer business problem and re-
lationship. He has been moved to 40
"a largely because number OF the
CITY newspapers in the west recently
attacked him as being opposed TO the
Agricultural Bloc.
..f,na of these newspapers printed
an article Kahn Summons Business to
ORGANIZE Bloc" said Mr.. Kahn.'Noth
ing is further from the fact. am OPP
posed to bloc activities OF all KINDS,
believing them to be pernicious ana
not compatible with our system OF gov
,ernment. AS fact / particularly ad-
,vised Business not to attempt TO Or
ganize a bloc. The most essential
thing for all our people to recognize
Is that in the last analysis we are all
in the same boat and sink or SWIM
together.
"The farmer is disconted and under
a sense of grievance with the existing
order of things. A contented farming
popnlation is of immense social value
10 the state. Farming is calling OF
vital necessity, toilsome, none too wen
reouited at best and involving newt
able hardships. The just grievances
of the farmer call for immediate ana
intelligent consideration and for Ell
fectiye redress even though that may
mean the adoption Of methods which
are new and somewhat unpalatable to
the established ways of business.
IF there is one calling which has
higher claim than another upon the
helpful consideration of the state tnen
that calling is that of the farmer.
.There is no adequate economic rea-
son, Notwithstanding the huge waste
and destruction wrought by the late
war, why the world and particularly
this favored country, should not now
resume the road of prosperity; but In
sorder to do SO we must all take hard
pun together, we must give full and
free scope to the forces Of energy and
enterprise instead of cramping, shack
ling and hampering them and we must