The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-12
Editorial Comment
The NOrthwest's Better indedness
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The casual reader scarcely would risk tho fuIl
significance of all that is connoed in the stories in
the agricultural section of the Sunday Tribune about
| the progress OF diversified farming in the communi-
Ties or North Dakota whose commercial centers art.
| Bismarck, Minot, Mandan. Inkstcr Kenmare ami
| Northwood.
What is going on in these localities is typical OF
the farm movement throughout the northwest Agri
| culture is being placed a more secure base and
this is being done through intelligent cooperaton
between town and country folk. Business men,
bankers and farmers joining forces to raise the
standard of a common prosperity
IN the big way it unfortunate thing what
ever the provocation may have been that there should
have been stirred up in this spring wheat country
political consciousness which conceived of the eco
nomc welfare of the city one thing apart and ill.,,
economic welfare of the farm as another thing ana IT.
Inc enect, however, was not all to the bad Perha rs
s very consciousness, and the political reactions
IL on the rosrum and at the polls were indispens
able to hasten the day of common interest and com
mon understanding
The propaganda that set loose by misguided
leaders served to overempha size the value of lees-
lation as of the solvents of farm problems that
became exceptionally difficult in the abnormal condi-
'lohs following the war. 1t exalted political quack-
cry above sound economic remedies to cure a farm
raise lines as between city and country interests
Happily. the consciousness that has made for tn
distinction is rapidly passing. Diversification is
| proving itself sound economic tenet and in
| the promotion Of diversifcation, bankers business
men and commercial organizations have taken an
interest or an intensely practical and helpful sort
| ms common effort has brought farmer and city
! Nan INTO an intimate touch such they never be-
lore experienced 1t has set forth inControvertibly
Tie ''erdepehdence of farm producer and city con-
sumner, of field and factory, of buyer and seller-in
sum, the fact that community solvency is no re-
specter OF political boundary lines or of classes and
| businesses.
In this same section that told the story of North
Dakota communities was joint testimonial by Min
| heapols business organizations to the virtue OF
| dlverslflcation financial bulwark to the north
west There were millers to say that single crop
ping with wheat is not good thing There were
makers and dealers in agricultural implements to
urge the wisdom of the agricultural transformation
'hat IS coming over the spring wheat country. There
were grain dealers with the vision see that there
IS not only room for but that there must be- in the
northwest greater variety of farm activities than
they have been used to in the past There were
| others-umbermen realtors hardware men anil
wholesalers-who have caught the truth and re-
acted to 1t as men who believe that prosperity to
be worthy OF the name, is all-embracing
| City and country camaraderie, and cooperation
are possible now never before They have been
made so In part by good roads, automobiles, radio
communication, and consequent clearer under
standing OF common requirements. There is diff
ferent atmosphere in the northwest despite the try
ing drouth. Those who keep their eyes and ears
open will easily sense the fact at the state fair
The political mind is yielding to the economic mind
as 1t was bound to do. Science is taking its right
full place on the farm, and it is vindcatng itself
help above that which legislative bodies can give