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have come to see that political action does not offer 

 the most satisfactory solution to their problems. 

 There are still others who contend that the farm 

 labor forces will profit by the mistakes of 1924, and 

 will renew their political activities with greater 

 success in future years. 



An editorial in the Washington Post, under date 

 of Sunday, November 9, 1924, seems inclined toward 

 the latter view. "Although the Radical movement 

 did not attain the proportions anticipated, it still 

 continues as a force to be reckoned with in the 

 realignment of the old parties. . . ^ 



"This political reunion of the farmer and the 

 business world is by far the most important, though 

 not the most conspicuous, issue of the day. It has 

 passed the stage of argument. Its only solution 

 now lies in compromise. The farmers realize too 

 definitely the nature of the difficulty to be cozened 

 or treated as 'hicks.' Nor will they be quieted, cer- 

 tainly not permanently, by the accident of high 

 prices in a presidential year." 



This editorial asserts further that "business must 

 meet agriculture half way. It must play fair and 

 square. The West must be brought into the coun- 

 cils of the party and policies be agreed upon which 

 are just to all sections and interests. The East 

 should recognize that its own industrial outposts 

 scattered over the rest of the country are not rep- 

 resentative of Western sentiment nor similar in 

 interest to the districts in which they happen to be 



