The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-07-29
FARM CONFERENCE
ORGANIZES COUNCIL
STATE WILL BE ORGANIZED AS
UNIT FOR AGRICULTURAL
RELIEF
EASTMAN NAMED HEAD
GAUNTLET OF DEFIANCE is
THROWN DOWN TO THE IN
DUSTRIAL EAST

i lie MlullSSOId SUQlCl VI faSIlCul-
ture was organized sst statewide con-
ference held at the state capitol last
Friday, for the purpose of carrying
on a campaign of education in sup
port of the fight for agricultural
equality through federal legislation
providing for a federal farm board
and equalization fee-the basic prin-
ciples of the McNary-Haugen bill.
This conference was called by the
united farm organizations of the
state and was attended by farm lead
ers, public officials, business and
professional men from many parts OF
Minnesota to the number of about
100.
Resolutions were adopted which
were so full of militant expressions
of determined policy, as to leave no
room for doubt as to the temper of the
conference and it's steadfast purpose
to wage this fight to the bitter end !.
The farmers are going to know who
their friends are, and interests or in
dividuals in Minnesota obstructing
their program are going to be shown
up before the public, according to ex-
pressions voiced at the meeting.
The gauntlet of defiance was
thrown down to the industrial East
in the battle to make the tariff pro-
tect farm products. Conduct of
Senator Fess, Ohio, administration
leader in senate, and Secretaries Jar.
dine and Mellon were severely con
demned as stupid and un-American
Congressman Newton of Minneapolis,
only Minnesota man in congress- to
vote against the recent farm bills,
was criticized severely and other
Minneapolis interests censured for
their opposition and hostility to real
farm legislation.
j. F. Reed, president Minnesots
Farm Bureau, presided at the con-
ference. Frank w. Murphy, who had
charge of the farm legislation fight
at Washington during the late session
of congress, led the discussion. Thos
E. eastman, Owatonna, was elected
president of the state council and Mr.
Murphy chairman Of the executive
committee. Col. Geo. Lambert and
Edward Barr of St. Paul were
named secretary and treasurer, re-
spectively. A vice president and ex-
congressional district, with five COM
mitteemen at large, were chosen to
carry the organization work forward
in the counties of the state.
This committe met on Saturday to
map plans for carrying on the work
determined upon by the conference.
The farm problem thus is going to be
a live issue in Minnesota during the
months from now till congress con-
venes next December.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Declaration of Purposes
The joint delegate convention of the
Minnesota Council of Agriculture and
allied farmers organizations, with the
business interests of the state, in
meeting assembled at St. Paul, Min
nesota, do declare and resolve as fol-
lows:
Economic Issue
The people Of the United States are
facing today the GREATEST issue in
American history since the civil war,
emancipation Of agriculture. The COM
north and south have for many years
been seriously affected, and are at this
time threatened with complete destruc-
ton by the existence of definite and
indefensible maladjustment- in the Ma
TONS economic system. Thirty-f1ve
per cent Of the people who are engaged
in agricultural pursuits and live in
rural districts have become industrial
serfs-a situation forced upon them by
the development of Americas system
of protection to groups.
The law OF supply and demand has
been supplanted by q law-made price
system that compels the farmer to buy
what he uses in law-protected mar.
ket on scale of prices more than one
per II ce g a aDS prize be
time compels him to sell his major
products at the price levels prevailing
in other countries, in competition with
and with the peasants of other lands.
Under the operation Of economic con-
ditions, created and fostered by one
sided fiscal legislation, the American
farmer has been denied the benefit Of
existing tariffs and compelled to OPP.
crate at cumulative loss SO that the
Eastern Industrial might continue to
reap war time profits in foreign trade.
The West cannot withstand indefinitely
the drain upon its capital resources by
Eastern industry. and the waning pur-
chasing power Of the farmer must in
evitably drag in its ruin western COM
merce and industry depending upon it.
business aer bankng aDd
are vitality interested in the solution of
the agricultural problem, and are
joining with the farmer in demanding
prompt and adequate redress.
Eastern Propaganda
Eastern business has for years de-
liberately and Systematically propa-
gandized Western business, and is de-
ing it now, and unfortunately the eco
nonlic views of many Western bust
nessmen have come almost entirely
from Eastern sources whose interests
are opposed to ours. These interests
have branded as Economically UNI
col OF lis n 10
existing tariffs effective for agricuI-
ture while they proclaim as inviolab1e
the tariff advantages secured by East
ern industry with the aid of western
votes.
Federal Farm Board bin
1t is to correct this cruel and de-
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