The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-26

VIE CnlcaBO DAILY news, organ OIL
L the La Sale bankers, wakes
hysterical in the firm conviction that
There viii Be No Last Frontier"
At least that is the title of an al
legedly serious editorial in that
sheet You can take it or leave it.
The editorial writer, who gets his
inspirations from the jingle of gold
coins in this center of western
finance, has discovered that "the
prize wheat this year was grown as
far north as Toronto, Canada, as
Toronto is north of Florida"
He frantically grasps at this "im-
portant" discovery to dodge serious
consideration of the farm relief
legislation proposed here at home.
Here is surely an opportunity for
the millions of landless in the
United States, an opportunity that
'calls across the wintry air to the
pioneer spirit which won our west
ern plains from the Indians and the
bison, and made them so safe they
are almost dull. There are other
vast domains to be conquered by
the men who love the sky and wind,
sun and ice, work and lberty!"
Millions of farmers, mortgaged,
bankrupt and landless, in the United
States, and in Canada as we'll, will
laugh at this attempt of the bank
ers' daily to divert attention to the
far and frozen North in order to
make the American peasant forget
his troubles at home. There is
nothing heroic about camping close
to the North Pole. There is more
adventure in fighting Withdrawing
sheriffs, usurious bankers, gouging
landlords and thieving spectators
on this side of the Canadian line.
The story OF Herman Treble, of
Wembley in Peace River Valley,
lighted by the midnight sun, is
therefore not very interesting. The
picture drawn by the Daily News
does not attract. Yet It is worthy
of reproduction as an example Of
capitalist editorial idiocy. So here
it is;
"Trelle is a city boy and college
man who homesteaded 100 acres
near the Arctic circle, married a
town girl and built a house for her
in the wilderness. Their house
burned down, their COW fell i'll and
the railroad that was promised
never came; but Treble and his wife
moved into a lean-to against the
woodshed and stayed. They now
own 4SO acres of the worlds best
wheat land and have a new house.
Treble is going into the seed wheat
business, in which he expects to
get rich.
peace River Valley is called the
last wheat mine on earth That
sentence should not discourage boys
and girls of today who dream of
adventure. Other wheat mines will
be found on the frozen fringes Of
the world, and when all these are
peopled man will grow cheaper and
perhaps better food on the bottom
of the oceans under conditions fas-
cinatingly dangerous"
Wheat in Peace River Valley with
in the arctic circle or on the bed of
the ocean would be valuable and
worth seeking on one condition only.
That is, if wheat and other foods
happened to be so scarce and there
would be a great demand for it from
a hungry population according to
the nightmares of the Malthusians.
Men sought gold, and died for it
in California in '4S, and more re-
Gently in the Klondike. Divers
plunge into the Indian Ocean for
pearls. But the gold that was once
in the Klondike would still be there
If gold ore were as plentiful as iron
ore in northern Minnesota and
Michigan. II pears were as plenti-
full as pebbles on New England's
rock-bound farms, no one would
risk his life battling sharks for
jewels in southern seas.
The fact that there is great
abundance of wheat in the United
States, and vast opportunities to
produce more. leaves the American
farmer cold to the story OF Peace
River Valley. Years ago American
farmers began to trek from Iowa,
Minnesota, the Dakotas, and other
states, over the Canadian line, into
Manitoba. Alberta and Saskatche-
wan, but they soon learned that they
faced the same capitalist evils there
that thav iaft hahind than