The daily worker., 1925-02-04
Bohn, Renegade, Offers
Solution For Farmers
Woes Under Capitalism
By J. LOUIS ENcDAHL

TODAY Frank Bohn marches to the 'front.' thru article
in "The Forum and gives his version Of the and
of "The Great Farm Rebellion. He chdishy speaks
his little piece tuned for bourgeois applause.
1t is interesting that Bohn confesses he changed
the first few paragraphs Of his article after reading
trbuon in last Octobers Forum" entitled "The Politics Of
Wheat That is supposed to have brought his offering into
harmony with the policy of this organ of intellectual New
England.
perusaI Of the opening paragraphs indicates that Rohn
takes violent objection to the wives of wheat farmers the
Saskatchewan country in western Canada buying California
cherries Evidently Bohn Nesting among the Goldfish arstc-
Gratis of the efee East has decided that western farmers
not entitled to eat cherries He becomes ouspoken
apostle Of Coolidge economy"
Bohn was socialist in the days before the war He
active the editorial side of the international Socialist
Review with strong eanings Industrial Workers
of the World the war ended all of Bohns radical
revolutionary connections He sent to Europe by the
uItrarespectabe capitalist sheet the New York Evening
POST while the Times later used him in Mexico But he
was born on farm and that makes him expert on agr
cultural problems.
Bohn doesn't talk about revolution the way he did,
Chester M Wright A. M sirnons and the rest Bohn now
advances the alternative that the nations must be
grown by individual free farmers the
they work. by powerful organizations of capital which
employ seasonal class of wastreIs."
He nothing outside the ndviduaIism Of the
small Iandhoder capitalist exploitation applied directly
the land And he shows his tremendous ignorance when he
off, the farmers (of Russia pure gold
their great for the dross of the Boshevst
ernnlent monopoly" .sa.a
In this he exposes himself conflict with the views Of
nonparsan observers who actually visited Soviet
Russia studied the conditions tere especially of the
cooperatves like Senator Brookha of Iowa. who reports
that there is the greatest harmony of action between the
Soviet government and the cooperative movement.
Bohn urges various cooperative schemes as panacea
under capitalism, getting enthusiastic about them
labor leaders who urge banking means of taking
the whole capitalist system He as the greatest virtue
of the capitalist state that be noensve and weak that
may not play the tyrant concluding that "Our political
parties and federal legislatures mostly
tering, gossping, harebrained affairs" syss
this capitalist instrument of
oppression welded against the city workers and poor farm
ers alike.
Bohns efforts the farmers from their
this capitalist state will prove abortive In the first place
the poor farmers do not read "The Forum" The food
spectators, who today reapng winnings
the boards of trade might circulate few free copies among
the discontened they chose spend of their profits
Which they won't And they did, it is doubtful any poor
farmers could be dped into absorbing any of Bohns
They have been presented with such pIe often
BEFORE ...-fgs..t IA
The poor farmers in daily increasing numbers are
learning that the solution of their problems only be
achieved thru the overthrow of the capitalist
operative filling of the soil and the distribution of its pro-
ducts only be achieved, for the benefit of ALL under
Communist society.