FARMERS ARE THINKING
Baer, Fathur Urban
Farmers Are Thinking By FATHUR URBAN BAER IN AN ADDRESS delivered before the Young Men's Lyceum at Springfield, 111., Abraham Lincoln said: "If danger is ever to reach us it cannot come from...
...Rural America Sane In my opinion, not only the majority but almost the entire family-sized farm population of our land has remained immune to the propaganda of the pro-war agitators: Despite the bellicose statements of "Campaign Oratory" Willkie, Knox, Stimson, Wickard, and Company, family-sized farmers are keeping their feet on the ground...
...Our beloved country will not be overrun from without...
...Notwithstanding the fact that many editors of farm papers are afraid to speak out against America's entry into Europe's war the American farmers are doing their own thinking...
...The farmer is losing faith in those farm leaders who, in the name of prudence, are hiding behind the bulwark of silence on this momentous question of peace or war for America...
...But the tillers of the soil are not so gullible as to believe that brutal dictatorship can be stamped out abroad without begetting an iron-fisted dictatorship here at home...
...I venture the prediction that in the not too distant future a high type of leadership will come forth, not from promise-breaking politicians, not from the timid farm leaders of the moment, but.from the rank and file of the farmers themselves who are doing their own thinking these days...
...Doing His Own Thinking Yes, I repeat, the farmer is doing his own thinking...
...His voice will be heard in the Congressional elections of 1942...
...Farmers Are Thinking By FATHUR URBAN BAER IN AN ADDRESS delivered before the Young Men's Lyceum at Springfield, 111., Abraham Lincoln said: "If danger is ever to reach us it cannot come from abroad...
...The farmer has his misgivings about the artificial makeshifts which, in the long run, will do both him and his country more harm than good...
...The farmer is thinking things through for himself...
...As a nation of freemen we must live through all times or die by suicide...
...Farmers, like other people, are heart and soul for the strongest national defense...
...The majority of the American peop'.e are unimpressed by scare campaigns, emotional sprees, half-truths and all the other tricks in the bag of the jittery interventionists who are so anxious to spill the blood of American youth...
...The farmer is skeptical of the glaring inconsistencies in the Administration's foreign policy...
...ers, like other people, detest Nazism, Communism, Fascism...
...The vast majority of our citizens are guided by reason and not emotion...
...1. Farm...
...If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher...
...Under God's Providence freemen will not let America perish from within...
...The farmer with his innate sense of fair play sees the spitework of the smear campaigns against the men who are working for America first...
...Family-sized farmers have learned a bitter lesson from World War No...
...He is seeing through the broken promises and shattered pledges of the men who 14 months ago wanted only his vote...
Vol. 5 • December 1941 • No. 49
