River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-07-03
Farm Organization
National Conference
Meeting of Vital Interest to Every
Farmer Is To Be Held In st.
Paul On Wednesday And
Thursday of Next Week

On July IL and u there is to be
held in St. Paul, Minnesota, begin
ming at 10 a. m. at the Garrick
Theatre, great national conference
of farm organizations to formulate
definite plan and map ont con-
certed campaign for The attainment
of such legislative protection for
agriculture as was embodied in the
McNary-Haugen bill. While this
bill failed of passage in the last ses-
sion of Congress, its principles are
still much alive. The farm organiza-
J tions which led in the promotion of
that bill and the far-visioned bust
ness men who aided them are girding
themselves for the second stage of
the struggle which will come when
Congress again convenes.
At the conference in St. Paul def
mite plans will be formulated for a
continuous campaign during the sum-
mer months and for the preparation
of legislative measures of relief to
be presented to Congress in Deem
Der. This is an open conference to
which everyone is invited. 1t is ex-
pected that an executive committee
will be appointed to carry out the
plans adopted. The McNary- Haugen
bill is the only practicable plan so
far proposed that will lift agricul-
ture to the level of other industries,
and undoubtedly it will serve as the
model for the conference.
Three hundred farm and CONNER
cial organizations of the United
States, national, state, and local, in
dorsed the McNary- Haugen bill.
Twenty special representatives of
these organizations were on the
ground in Washington and made up
the legislative committee actively
promoting the passage of the bill.
When Congress adjourned without
according the necessary relief the de-
cision to call national conference in.
st. Paul for the prosecution of a
further campaign was made by this
legislative committee.
Among the organizations actively
represented on the Washington COM
mittee were the American Farm
Bureau Federation, National Grange,
National Livestock Producers AS
ISOLATION, National Milk Producers
Federation, National Wool Growers
Association, American Wheat Grow
ers' Associated, st. Paul Association,
and state farm organizations of Min
nesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. All
of these organizations are behind the
call for the Conference in st. Paul.
Other organizations and agencies
among the 800 which Endorsed the
McNary- Haugen bill were the United
States Department of Agriculture;
American Federation of Labor; Ma
tional Board of Farm Organizations;
American National Livestock Associ-
alton; Corn Belt Meat Producers
Association; Tri-State Grain Grow
ers' Association, Fargo, N. D.; Iowa
State Legislature; Republican State
Conventions of Minnesota and Iowa;
State Bankers Associations of
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington, and Oregon; State
Retail Merchants association of
Iowa and Montana; Minnesota Edi-
torial Association; City Commercial
associations of St. Paul, Des Moines,
Cedar Falls, Aberdeen, Mitchell,
Lincoln, Portland, Seattle, and Spo-
kane; and many other organizations
too numerous to mention.
There are those who have said that
the demand for agricultural protec-
ton comes only from a few dis
gruntled spring-wheat farmers in the
Northwest. A glance at the preced-
ing list of agricultural and CONNER
cial organizations covering the
United States that promoted the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill exposes the fallacy
of that contention. The millions of
farmers and business men included
in these organizations believe that
agriculture must have the same leg
islative protection that is accorded to
business, industry, and labor, or that
barriers by which these latter are
now protected must be struck down,
if agriculture in America is to sur
vive.
That is the belief that will be
transformed into a definite concrete
plan of action at the national con-
ference in st. Paul, July IL and IL.
Plans are perfected for the accom-
mediation of great host of farmers
and interested business men from
Minnesota and all surrounding states
and of agricultural leaders from
every state in the Union. That the