The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-21
MARKET
PLAN TO GROW,
L0WDEN SAYS
Former Illinois Governor and
Leader in Public Affairs;
Is For II
NEED OF ORGANIZING
Holds That Cooperative Mar
keting Is the Only Sound
Plan
NEED OF ORGANIZING
Cooperative marketing can succeed

and will.
That is the firm belief Of Frank
O. Lowden, former Governor of
Illinois, leader in public and busi-
ness affairs of many lines, and
nominee for the Republican vice.
presidential nomination who de-
clined it because Of the broad pro-
gram Of urban and agrarian coop
Grafton in which he is engaged.
Mr.. Lowden came to Bismarck to-
day in special car attached to
Northern Pacific train No. l and
speaks here tonight on national cam
paign issues. His campaign tour
for the Republican National Com
mittee will carry him into Montana,
Washington, Utah, New Mexico and
other states.
Mr.. Lowden knows something
about farming. He owns great
farm 100 miles west of Chicago, is
president of the Holstein Associa-
tion of America and president of
the American Dairy Federation. Re-
Gently he has been engaged in pro-
noting cooperative marketing. AS
head Of two great dairy organiza-
tions, Mr.. Lowden first of all urges
cow testing associations, believing
they are the basis of successful
dairying.
Can Succeed
"Do YOU think cooperative mar
keting can succeed in all lines OF
agricultural products ?" former Gov
ernor LOwden was asked.
81 haven't the slightest doubt of
it, he replied emphatically. "Of
course" he added, "there is more
difficulty with respect to some COM
modities than others. But the prin-
ciple is sound in all"
81 hope to live to see the day."
continued Mr.. Lowden, when all
agricultural products will be market
ed through cooperative marketing
associations"
Asked if he favored cooperative
marketing instead Of governmental
agencies, Mr.. Lowden declared: 81
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ganization is the only permanent
remedy, even if some of these other
temporary devices are adopted.
81 think very decided progress has
been made along every line of CO.
operative marketing" continued Mr..
Lowden. "There will be setbacks
from time to time, there always are
mistakes made, but the movement
as whole is moving forward sat
isfactorily."
Not Real Setback
Asked if present conditions, with
good prices, will affect the move
ment, Mr.. Lowden said:
"Better prices may temporarily
blind some of the farmers to the
need of organization, hut I do not
think it will amount to real set
back"
Mr.. Lowden, reviewing his efforts
to promote organization along CO.
operative commodity lines, said that
he had emphasized in speech a
few days ago the necessity of or
ganization among farmers if farm
prices are to be stabilized and the
proper relationship between the
farm and other lines Of business
is reestablished.
Educational Work
Mr.. Lowden is engaged chiefly IN
educational work, entirely volunteer
on his part, and he is, among other
things, directing his energies toward
an effort to get. business men to
realize as much as anyone else the
value of farmers organizations, be-
lieving that business cannot be sta
BILE and prosperous unless the farm
is restored to its proper place in the
whole commercial scheme. The whole
farm problem he regards as one
which can be solved through inten-
sive study and action from the
broadest possible viewpoint.
Mr.. Lowden spent the afternoon
conserving his energies for his
speech tonight, which is the only
one he will deliver in North Dakota.
From here he goes to Billings, Mis-
soula, Spokane, Salt Lake City, and
thence into Colorado and New Mex
leo.
With him is Thomas D. Knight
and John F. Tracy. Mr.. Knight ad-
dressed a group of women at the
Grand Pacific Hotel this afternoon.