The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-05

President Coolidge and the industrial east
have their answer to the presidential veto OF
the McNary-Haugen bill in the open. organized
political revolt Of the farmers Of the Mississippi
Valley states The language of the presi-
dental veto was not calculated to placate.
1t was an emphatic. impatient tactless
negative. bluntly stated and couched in terms
Of some arrogance.
Yet perhaps the veto and the veto message
will yet qualify as one Of the most constructive
influences toward the solution OF situation
that for four years or more has commanded
the attention of the entire country.
For it has reused the farmers and it has
made them beligerently active in their own
interests to degree seldom witnessed in this
country.
Today the class of men who came west with
a broad-beamed breaking pillow swung under
meath covered wagon drawn by oxen, fording
rivers. fighting Indians scaling mountains. en-
during the heat Of deserts to make the in
dustry of agriculture are engaged in a spec
tacular pilgrimage from II western states to
the Kansas City Republican convention to de-
mand farm equality.
Regardless Of the proportions this colorful
demonstration att&ins, it Is q remarkable DEM
onstration Of American independence It's mo-
tives are grounded in the deepest patriotism.
The heart of every western farmer will be in
the Dig paTdUes eWH0lNcE lie - pEcocHI Ill PCI.
son or not. And every true son of the west,
whether he is asfarmer or not today is roofing
for these crusaders militant. More power to
them,
Without other recourse at this time they are
availing themselves of about the only oppor-
tunity they have left to demonstrate their
sincerity and their deep and patriotic in.
terest in the country they have played the
largest part in making.
Every thinker today recognizes the import
ance of the issue of farm equality. The talk
of farm relief is happily being abandoned The
term never truly expressed the situation as
It's solution is sought in the political field The
term farm equality expresses it most fully.
The Republican party may ignore the de-
mands of the farmers of these western states
for farm equality plank in it's platform. If
It does it is simply furnishing campaign
thunder for the Houston convention. The
Democrats will receive the militant farmer with
open arms. There can be no doubt Of his
militancy or how he will express it.
There are two detectives of the farmers
demonstration at Kansas City. They insist that
. western man understanding their needs and
sympathetic to their viewpoint be nominated
for president. They will have none of Mr..
Hoover. Toward Mr.. Coolidge they are cold.
They insist on farm equality plank which
simply means making the tariff effective.
North Dakota was trail blazer IN the long
fight that is eliminating in q spectacular de-
mand for action at national convention. The
issue was made here more than a decade ago.
There have been mistakes, failures, ramifica-
tions, but the issue remains and today this
state is joined by all the Mississippi Valley
states
Sometimes we may forget this agrarian issue
in the exigencies of practical politics. But it
always bobs UP. To Republican party harmony
and. solidarity it has become a real menace
Go to it. Hiram!
North Dakota is in step with the marching
farmers today.