The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-03
The Farm the Arena of the Fourth

MaTrThe Farm the Arena OF the Fourth
. % ro,rth of .]uly keynote tomorrow might well be that
ego, rrops.
sau .r.tccnonic considerations are to the fore today III Amer
wider as its outstanding problems. Purely pohuca' ques.
of inns have been receding into the background, fairly well
the teshed out. Even the burning issue of prohibition is
ha 70 Ire economic than personal. And peace is not SO much
traffnatter of sentiment when the nations SIT down cosethel
ably formulate it in the mold OF permanency as IL is Oh
1rom,nomic needs. Limitation and parity OF armamenSS
out IS become the first step in a practical efiort 10 MAKE
of me Kellogg-Briand remuneration Of war more uhan a
a delre and beautiful gesture. And that is founded in
threfonomic considerations.
Hndependence day, 1880, finds the nation passing
through a period of economic stress IN part temporary
inrs,erefore remediable by mere reestaolishment OF oal'
safe,ce, end in part of a permanent character ana DEMAND
tionr permanent cure. There is the DISBURSEMENT OF bus
less in the wake of the fall debacle in the Wall street
ock market. which in time will right itself by It's own
alormedial processes, but the nation still has with II tne
ana larter-century agricultural problem wmcn ~ Il SeeANAs
I.sn end for good with farm relief.
sect T. has been the habit of Fourth of July oratory and
ingsscussion to dwell on outstanding issues and problems
tat the various periods OF the nations oeVelop"en'' 40
eitnhe past these flights of sentiment and OF wisdom or lony
MOI, largely kent close to independence Hall and the Liberty
"sen and were purely of domestic, and often florid, con-
curern.
on The Spanish American war and still later the woflo
wityar nut an end to provincial outlooks on the nations
birthday and weltanschaung became the American as
"yel as the European keynote. AS far as world a1lalfs 90
or This year, the naval parity treaty Is vi ""e oA''0" o'"~
uo.he chief international topic.
tvn mt the naval treaty Is a minor matter compared 10
economic problems at home, with agriculture depressed
Yemen out of employment to an extent that seldom u tHe
sdcase In this prosperous country and a tarl1 sltTauon .
verelop:ng that threatens international trade compnca-
Onions from foreign reprisals over the recent upward re-
aannyis.ons.
If So as said. the crops might we'll be the best subject
crtfo- Fourth of July oratory tomorrow. Very largely the
Immediate future of the country is bound up IN what
these are going to be. They should bring the great move
wtment that will dislodge grounded business. Iney shouio
sk point the way for shaping farm relief policies unoer tne
ga farm marking act. The country needs the stHmuluS
which regulated production and marketing is expected
- to provide. And the country is in the first year OF the
pa effort to establish those conditions. America AGAIN Will
kbe independent to the extent that the remedies OF the
). farm marketing act work out satisfactorily. 1t Will con-
q tinue its economic laundering TO the extent "Ia' 'e
new policy fails to function.
This. then, is a Fourth on which to summon the Amer
lean people to express their patriotism in an economic
sense, to invoke their loyalty to the development OF eco
nomic organization, not an occasion to appeal 10 maT''a
naNonalism and fighting valor, for the only conflict OF
the horizon is that in behalf Of the new policy OF Co
operation. Our Fourth of July has moved in from tn
camn fire and bivouac of the battlefield to the freside
Of millions of homes. The fail has suppanted tn
bayonet. There is nothing to fight out, but mucn U
thresh out.
May the wisdom Of the American people stu I'M
that patience in which to solve Its present-day problem
rs ably as its physical courage in the past mastered IT
po~utico-martial crises. Nature is %propitious. A favorabl
season has prospered the growing crops and as the har
vest develops, the regulation set in operation in reduce
acreages last fall and this spring may work out the ne
salvation of the nation-how to make agriculture rea
sonably profitable and thus assure that basic prosperi
founded on the welfare of the farmer on which the pei
petuity of the nation is mostly after all. dependent.