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Show FARMERS AND STRIKES The farmers of the United States have spoken through theiv four great organizations organi-zations on the subject of strikes, and they have given further evidence of their sanity, san-ity, a thing which no man who knows farmers has ever doubted. "If we should strike and starve the cities, we should be deservedly condemn-, ed. Then what iright has any other class to enthrone themselves by threats to starve their fellow-man?" This is the question the farmers ask, and we wish every man in Logan would learn it by heart so he can help spiead the argument. A strike against an individual indi-vidual employe may be and often is justified. jus-tified. But a strike against the people never has and never will be justified. Organizations Or-ganizations of working men have often bettered their condition and the condition condi-tion of their communities through united uni-ted action. But the individual members of an organization can not better their condition in life by bringing disaster to a community a state or a nation. Where a strike brings disaster to all the people it cannoot be of benefit to those who bring it about. As it stands today the farmer depends upon the town and city, and the town and city depends upn othe farmed. The railroad rail-road people depend upon the public and the public, depends upon the railroads. If help itself by injuring any other group, any other one group supposes it can' then it is seriously mistaken. But the action of the farmers that is 'the point. He has time tothink and study and he does so. Out there in the fields, communing with nature, attending to the business of producing, knowing that only (he who sows can reap the farmer was osvea a philosopher. So it does not come as a surprise to those who know and understand un-derstand him to read such wisdom from his lips as quoted above. |