The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 18, 1919, Page 13

Mlchigan s Road to Prosperlty North Dakota Example Spreading—Demand for Farmer Representation Grows Amadore, Mich. DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: I am sending you a clipping out of the Michigan Business Farm- ing. It is the sentiment of us farmers. I hope it won’t be long till' all the farm- ers and laborers are banded together to make the good old U. S. a better place to live in. Here’s to the N. P. L. M. L. A, (The article follows:) Why not have a Farmers’ party and elect . the whole state ticket in 1920 from the governor down? I believe we can do it. Now that the women are votmg, with the votes of the farm employes and some of the laborers in the cities and towns that would go with us we would poll a big vote. Ever since our state had a constitution we have been represented by all classes of men except farmers. Isn'’t it about time we had our in- ning? Haven’t we been waiting a good while for our chance at the bat? We ought to be able to put a ball over now, eh? Aren’t those new laws and reforms the farmers of North Da- kota are putting over dandies? Will be better for the town people than those they have been living under, will they not? Farmers are the biggest class of purchasers on earth when they have any “coin of the realm” to do it with. FARMERS’ PROSPERITY IS PROSPERITY FOR NATION When the farmers are prosperous business is booming, good times for -every one. And, on the other hand, when the farmer is hard up all other classes of men are hard up also; busi- ness of all kinds closes up and thou- sands of men are in the bread line. It is hard for most men to under- stand why politics should have any- thing to do with good or bad times, but the fact remains that it does. Then all depends upon whom we have at bat in our legislature, doesn’t it? Notwithstanding high prices, are farmers prosperous? If they are, why are so many getting cold feet? Why is it that so many in one of the- best sections of our state on good farms, with good buildings and other improvements, can’t pay their fire in- surance? Insurance has to be paid by the man who owns the mortgage on the farm. Aren’t. we traveling over the same road Denmark did before her farmers got sufficient con- trol of her law-making bodies to hold the balance of power? With her things went from bad to worse until she was threatened with de- population. People left there just as fast as they could get money enough to bring them to this country. But after the farmers got control it was not long until- Denmark became one of the most, if not the most, prosperous coun- try on earth. So we see that when the farmers of that country went to the bat the score meant something good for every man, woman and child within her bor- ders, didn’t it? So they set us a precedent, didn’t they? In giving the farmers of this country the balance of power or partial con- trol we are not going at it blindly; we ought to be as smart as the Danes were. = If T am any guesser North Dakota will soon be the best:governed state and the most prosperous and the best to live in by all classes. of people, " thanks to her farmers, of any in our Union. Can‘t we do as she has done? -Aren’t we as smart as the North Da- kotans? Why can’t we do as North Dakota farmers did and have a Farm- ers’ party made up of all the old parties? Aren’t we the goat for all other classes: of men? During the “late unpleasantness” didn’t our own government make us the goat? Didn’t it set prices on all of our most 1mportant commodities? Did it set a price on anythmg' we had to buy? Was that usmg us fair? If it were fair to set a price on what we sold why wasn’t it fair to set a price on what we bought? Laboring men outside of the farms got their demands, didn’t they? and are still getting them. Why? Because “in union there is-strength.” There- fore doesn’t it follow that we must have a big sprinkling of honest to God farmers in our state and United States legislatures to put us on a par or equality with other classes of men? —A. Al LAMBERSTON, KENT COUNTY, MICH. CANNING BEEF AT HOME From the hoof to the can in 10 hours. That is the transformation through which a beef yearling went in a demonstration conducted by the home demonstration agent in Mont- gomery county, Texas. The yearling was killed in the morn- ing while the agent was getting the canners ready, sterilizing the jars, and preparing the pots for cooking. The meat was cut from the bones in neat, convenient sizes, and that which was to be served as roast beef was dredged in flour and cooked in wash pots of hot grease until brown. . The steak was cut in small pieces, cooked in the wash boiler, packed in the cans, and covered with gravy. 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