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Show ROUGH ON "FARMERS' FRIENDS" Long Prairie is just about the geographical center of the great wheat state of Minnesota. It is a typical town of 1 000 people, with a weekly newspaper, the Leader, whose editor has this to say about export bonus schemes, equalization schemes and daily forays upon congress by professional agricultural propagandists: "We would like to support some one for the legislature who would run on a platform of putting all 'friends of the farmer' in jail for 90-day terms or so. "These so-called farmer friends, with their calamity howling, are doing the farmer and the cause of farming a great harm. There is nothing the matter with farming, if these professional friends would leave it alone. "As a matter of fact, but little of the calamity howling comes from the farmer. It is produced for the purpose of fooling the farmers, and by a class of men who want to make use of the farmer for their own selfish benefit. "Let a movement be started to sit down on the professional friends of the farmer. Such a movement would be something really worth while in behalf of constructive agricultural and farm prosperity. pros-perity. Farming is all right, and so is the farmer." |