The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-23
SEES NATIONAL
ENDEAV0R FOR
AIDING FARMER
4
Promises, If Elected, to Help
Straighten Out Agricultural
Problem
PAYS RESPECTS TO RIVAL
Pledges Support to Making
Bad Lands Into Roosevelt
National Park
PAYS RESPECTS TO RIVAL


Beach, N. D., Oct. 22.-(R-Be-
lief that the state should support
and stimulate cooperative and order
ly marketing Of agricultural prod.
ucts by farmer-owned organizations
was expressed here tonight by
George F. Shafer, Republican guber-
Material candidate.
The speech here was the opening
gun Of Shafer's fall campaign and
in it he promised that, If elected, he
would do all in his power to help
straighten out the marketing prob.
lem Of the state and to cooperate
with whatever policy the national
government might adopt to remedy
the situation. That the national
government would make such m
effort, he said, is certain in view Of
the attitude toward the farm prob
lens expressed by both major po-
litical parties.
Paying his respects to the sup
porters Of his opponents for the gov
ernorship and those supporting him,
Shafer said the Nonpartisan League
supporters Of Governor Maddox
have developed . strong thirst for
constant political warfare" which
made the present campaign neces-
sary.
Shafer also pledged himself to
support the proposed Roosevelt ma
tional park in the Bad Lands, giving
it as his opinion that such . park
would, in time, become Of inesti-
mable benefit to the state.
On Farm Relief
Parts Of the text Of his address
follow:
"The question Of farm relief holds
10 place Of much Importance IN the
present national campaign. Il Is I
subject Of peculiar interest to the
people of North Dakota because OF
its possible effect upon the future
prosperity Of the state. But presi-
Dental candidates have emphasized
it and the platforms Of both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties de-
clare unequivocally for immediate
farm relief legislation designated 20
influence the prices of wheat ana
similar agricultural products Of
which surplus is produced in the
United States. There is little doubt
that which ever way the national
election goes, IN earnest and sincere
effort will be made to solve the agri-
cultural depression problem by some
form Of national legislation.
It is perfectly clear that no state
legislation and no state marketing
organization or institution can d.
irectly affect the price Of wheat in
North Dakota for the simple reason
that over 95 per cent Of our total
annual wheat crop is sold outside Of
the state for prices determined upon
the basis Of the prices offered at
Minneapolis and Duluth, the prin-
Icipal grain marketing centers Of the
northwest.
Favors State Action
II am, however, Of the opinion that
some state legislation could be
adopted that would be helpful to
farmers in dealing with this per-
picking marketing question.
"Any national marketing program
that Is likely to be established by the
federal government, whether it is
the McNary-Hau9en idea or some
other plan. will, ! am satisfied, rec
'ognize two principles; namely, the
principle Of cooperative marketing
and the principle Of orderly market
ing:
marketing, however, we are 20 years
behind our Canadian neighbors.
Farmers in Canada have organized
grain companies which operate hum
ldreds Of local elevators, many ter
minal elevators, hold seats on the
grain exchanges at Winnipeg and
Chicago, and conduct selling
agencies in the United States and
foreign countries. These farmers
have, in the last two years, organ
lied wheat pools that control the
selling Of q much . 20 Per cent Of
the entire annual Canadian wheat
crop.
Profit BY Example
"In this country there has been
much less progress in cooperative
grain marketing. In North Dakota,
the farmers cooperative method has
been confined largely to the owner
ship and operation Of local farmers
elevators,
believe it is the duty Of the state
government to encourage the eff
cient development Of cooperative
marketing methods, and il ] am
elected governor, ] shall recommend
tho adoption Of such legislation .
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