Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1919 — A VOICE FROM THE FARM. [ARTICLE]

A VOICE FROM THE FARM.

The resolutions adopted yesterday by representatives of the farming interests meeting in Indianapolis should make the radicals realize that the' “bourgeoisie” element is the largest and most influential in our population. The men who spoke yesterday, spoke for the ■ Tariff ‘Bureau Associationsof Indn ana, Illinois, Missouri and Michigan. As long as such opinions are held by the farmers there does not seem much reason to fear revolution, since those opinions are wisely and patriotically conservative. Though it is said that “capital has not reduced war time profits to peace conditions,” the chief cause of the high cost of living is found to be curtailed production, and this curtailed production results from the strike between capital and labor, and the short working day. While entirely favorable to organized labor, and earnestly insistent”'that wage earners shall have all that is resentatives says: ' “But organized labor too often falls under the leadership of radicalism and makes not only unreasonable demands on capital, but demands prejudicial to the public wel-

fare.” Strike methods of righting wrongs and “duress methods of securing legislation” are condemned, as are the demands for a shorter working day, since the effect is to lessen production and keep the cost of living high. What these meh would have is “a basic ten-hour . day for all productive industries in order that farm labor may be on a parity with other forms of labor.” But the most interesting and cheering declarations are these:

“We condemn the effort to unionize the police force of cities, and regard a strike of the police, which leaves the city Tn the hands oflusT demn Bolshevism, sovietism, I. W. W.’ism, and denounce as traitors to this country any persons who, in any way, advocate • anything pointingtowardrevolution.”.. . There have been many things of ateTTndicating that the farmers are keenly alive to present-day dangers radicalism. Only a few days ago it was suggested by some farmers that they refuse to feed those who would not work, and argued that it was most unfair to expect the farmers to produce largely in order to reduce the price of what the farmer sells, while the price of what he buys is increased by strikes, short wdTking days and diminished production. The voice from the farm will be..-- heard, and should be heeded.— Indianapolis News.