The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
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F.U.C.T.A..

And Led the Way.
Trust Not Princes.
Fill Up the Ranks.
The Day and Hour.
1t may develop that the shock, giveI
by the signing of the Argentina trea
ty, to northwest farmers may turf
out to be good thing. We had gone
along for eight years getting more
and better laws to aid agriculture
than in any previous like period In
history. The farmer had come to be
lieve that, at least, his interests were
in safe hands and that belief left him
a bit drowsy and unprepared. Then
out of clear sky, came the bolt that
put the prices of flaxseed, dairy prod
ucts, processed meats, hides and wool
on the toboggan. 1t was such a jolt
from such an unexpected quarter, as
to jar awake the sleepiest and most
contented farmer. Good has a way of
coming out of evil If King John had
not run the English ragged with his
| imposts-there might have been no
Magma Charta of liberty. If the Brit
ish had not harried the American col
onists with tyranny and taxes, there
would not have been a Declaration of
Independence or any United States of
America.
So, out of the evil of Argentina
cheap labor and its products compel
ing for the American farmers domest-
ic market, spirit of revolt is moving
among the farmers, particularly of the
northwest, for they are hardest hit.
They are a little dazed, not yet GER
tain which way to go. In way, they
remind one of the circling of birds
in the fall which seem to be unde-
cided before they start their long trek
to the farmer lands of the south. But
the farmers will soon get their direc-
lions and set their course - then,
watch them go 1t is at this time
that the wise and experienced leader
ship of the Farmers Union will be
called upon to initiate the parson in
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" who,
pointed to better worlds-and let the
way" The summer of agriculture is
ended. Let 1t prepare against the
rigors of a winter of discomfort by
united support of the only program
that will afford escape from a depres-
sion on the farm in the midst of an
industrial initiation.
The trade treaty with Argentina
will teach the farmer the wisdom of
the words of David, himself a prince:
'Put not your trust in princes" The
thought he had is better expressed in
a later translation which reads: rely
not on great men-mere mortals who
can give no help; when their breath
goes, they return to the dust, and on
that very day their projects perish"
But, the farmer may we'll inquire,
Whom shall we trust?" The answer
is as simple as this: "You must trust
each other your brother farmers"
You can't depend on great men, OH
governments, to save the farm family
on the farm home. They have other
interests, international, industrial, eco
nomic. But the farmer has the one
interest which he and his brother
farmers must keep or perish. That
idea or an expression of it can be
found in the resolutions of the Farm
GT1i1n ofo nn~ .
copy Of mem, read and yol will ur-
derstand what is moving in the minds
of farmers. 1t is like no other such
declaration of policies and principles
by farmers.
The Argentina treaty also gives ini-
petus to, if it does not likewise ex-
plain, the drive for membership being
made this month and to continue I'M
til SHOWS block the highways, to get
farmers into their own militant or
ganization-the Farmers Union. To
be effective in the battle for farm in
tegrity, there must be numbers. The
ranks must be filled-the gaps closed
up. Either farmers unite to block
this new flank attack on their income
or they will end up as poems and
coolies.
In old England they called him |
churl"-a freeman of the lowest rank |
who titled the soil for his feudal lord. |
But-we never can go back to that |
statusl No? Solomon says: What
mas been-will be-" The farmer, in
.hese perilous days, had better join
up with his brothers on the farm,
earn to organize, to cooperate and to
egislate or he may find himself look
ng out of the windows of a farm |
home which is at once a prison and
| slaves cabin. The right to live as |
reemen was born of struggle through
centuries of oppression. 1t cannot be
etained by dormancy or lethargy. II
This is the day and hour of prepared
less for the farmer. Let him use it, II
While there still is time. His fate,
Ike the nations, rests on unity and
.ction, concerted and relentless to-
yard the goal - the independence of
he farm family today and forever.
One of the most treasured military
evices of the United States has been
he Norden bombsight. which made it
ossible for airplanes to hit, with un-