Jackson to Speak at Farm Rally

MINNEAPOLIS — Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson flew to Minnesota on Sunday to take up the cause of farmers who say that they will lose their land unless they get higher prices and a freeze on foreclosures.

Jackson arrived for a meeting Sunday night with Gov. Rudy Perpich, and today he will address hundreds of farmers at a rally in Glenwood, a town of 2,500 persons that is 140 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

“We cannot allow the most productive farmers in the world to be put out of business,” Jackson said upon arrival at the airport. “It’s not their fault. It’s a matter of a long-term plan to save family farms. We simply must turn to one another and not on one another.”

Chrysler Aid Cited

The former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination said that farmers should receive the same kind of government aid that helped turn around Chrysler Corp. “If we can conceive of a way to save these farms, we should do it,” he said.

The rally in Glenwood initially was to coincide with a third attempt to foreclose on the 480-acre farm of Jim Langman, 10 miles west of Glenwood. But the mortgage holder, Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., postponed the sale after receiving threats.