The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-11-19
ORGANIZATION FORMED TO COOPERATE
WITH OTHER MIDWEST STATES TO GET
FARM RELIEF AT NEXT CONGRESS meet
Thomas Noodle Of WahpetOn
Elected President - Paid
Secretary to BE Employed
Later-Executive Commit
tee Includes Three From
Each Congressional District

Permanent organization of the
North 1sakota Council Ut A9ficuttasas :
which will cooperate with other mid
western states in the effort to obtain
farm relief legislation at the next
congress was launched here Thurs
day
Thomas Noodle, Wahpeton, publish
er. was elected president; L. L. Rus
sell. New Rockford, vice pres sident:
F. A. Vogel, Coleharbor, treasurer. A
paid secretary will be employed later.
Three members Of the executive
committee were chosen from each
congress sional district as follows:
First Sidney Papke, Grand
Forks; J. l.. Johnson, Park River, and
Carl Lewis, Lakota.
Second district--L. l.. Russell, New
Rockford; j. l.. Page. Bottineau. and
i. }. Graham, Glendale.
Third district II. l.. HalvOrson,
Minot; o. o. Odegard. Dunn Center,
and Ben Larkin, Bismarck.
The executive committee will be
charged with the task of raising a
fund Of S. from each voting precinct
in the state which will be used to de-
fray the expenses Of the organization
and to finance the effort to obtain
favorable farm relief legislation at
the next session Of congress.
To Meet Again This Winter
A mass meeting of the organiza-
ton will be held here during the 1927
session Of the state legislature.
Resolutions adopted at the meeting
called for the emancipation of agri-
culture" by obtaining legislation as
favorable as that which has been
passed for the benefit Of industry,
commerce and labor.
They declared that q per cent Of
the people engaged in agriculture re-
ceived only seven per cent Of the in
come and demanded the "same pro-
lection for the farm that is being
given other industries"
"The west cannot withstand indefi-
nitely the drain upon its resources
by eastern industry" the resolutions
stated. "A collapse Of it's buying
power is inevitable, which in due
time will be reflected in the condi-
tion Of all industry. II is forcing q
crisis which may not much longer be
avoided with the condition Of the
nations basic and chief sustaining
industry as it. is.
1--WE call on the banking and busi-
ness interests Of North Dakota to
make common cause with the farmers
in this state in constructive thinking
and planning for the relief Of agri-
culture, realizing that their interest
in this matter is as deep and as sim
cere as is that Of the farmer"
Movements Commended
Commenting on other farm relief
movements the resolutions said: I'VE
commend those movements that seek
to promote better farming and great
er diversification and to them we
pledge our support. We do not ac-
cept them as a final basis or as a
panacea for all the problems Of agri-
culture, although we hold chem to
be constructive and worthy en-
deavor.
Eastern business has, for many
years, deliberately and systematical-
~ propagandized western business
and is doing it now. Unfortunately
many western business men accept
their opinions from eastern sources
whose interests are opposed to ours.
"Thesc interests have branded 40
economically unsound any and all
proposals to make existing tariffs ef-
fective for agriculture while pro-
claiming - inviolable the tariff ad-
vantages secured by eastern industry
with the aid Of western votes.
1--WE commend to every citi1en Of
this state . serious study Of the
problems Of agriculture that We, 90
! commonwealth, may be articulate il
our own interests and united in those
demands for American standards Of
living for western agriculture and
every interest dependent upon n
which are now denied by the opera
tContinusd on pass two.)