The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-05
The Core of American
Capitalism's Apple of
Prosperity Is Rotten
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

view IOTk TIMES, as follows.
Bankers and merchants. :. will
undoubtedly see to it that their
customers do not plant more acre
age in cotton than can safely be
financed and that they divert a good
part of the land to food and other
moneymaking crops"
"Money-making" for the owners,
of course. In the meantime let the
farmers take notice that in Cleve-
land the other day 1000 jobless
rioted for jobs at distributing tele-
phone directories at $3.50 per day.
Director s. j. Stanard of the state
department of agriculture of Illinois
steps into the breach, taking the
place of those who lack for other
arguments and recommendations
by declaring that:
1T has been trying year (1926).
No denying that. But we must
carry on. A kind providence and
that game determination of the
farmer and his family is bound to
bring about improved conditions in
1927"
But a 'kind providence" as 1t is
usually considered, is supposed to
bring forth great crops, situation
that will be enhanced by the in
creased toll of the farmers family.
Thus the inevitable farm crisis re-
turns to the huge crop with its low
prices that do not cover the cost
of production.
This Is all that capitalism has to
offer to the great agrarian popula-
ton. The farmer Is pushed from one
difficulty into another, from the
frying pan into the fire, and If he
manages to get out of the. fire, he
is back in the frying pan more des-
perate than ever.
There is considerable hope, there
fore, expressed by labor, in the
cities and on the land, in the calling
of the conference of Farmer-Labor
Party forces in Minnesota, to be
held in the Labor Temple, at St.
Paul, Jan. 1918.
This conference will discuss meas
ures to be introduced in the state
legislature, in which the Farmer
Labor Party will have numerous
spokesman elected in opposition to
the legislators Of the capitalist
parties. But the conference will
also discuss farm relief legislation
now before congress at Washington,
thus giving the gathering a national
outlook.
In fact, the Minnesota Farmer
Labor Party, speaking for the work
ers andefarmers of that state, must
inevitably sound a working class
note that will receive a welcome
greeting from labor thruout the
the whole nation.
The Minnesota Farmer-Labor
Party has always been interested
in relief for the farmers. 1t origin
ally favored the Norris-Sinclair bill
in 1924. When the McNary-Haugen
proposition came along as compro-
mise, 1t was admitted that 1t did not
meet the situation in thoro-going
manner. In view of the pressing
conditions, however, the Farmer
Labor elements lined up behind
this latter measure. The McNary-
Haugen bill, especially as it APP
pears in its changed form before the
present session Of congress, is mere
ly looked upon as an emergency
measure made necessary by the de-
pressed condition of agriculture.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that
the forthcoming Farmer-Labor con-
ference at st. Paul will go into this
problem much more fundamentally.
It must be realized that legislation
that is acceptable to the multi-mil-
lionaire, Frank o. Lowden, and the
Chicago banker, Vice President
Charles G. Dawes, can be of little
or no benefit to the farmer, except
to continue his bondage to the great
predatory interests. This bondage
helps also to shackle the workers
still more securely in the cities. The
Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
must take up this question and Ge-
velop it from the viewpoint OF the
workers and farmers as a class,
the producing class.
It must expose the rotten core of
American capitalism's annie of pros.