Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-11-12
HERALD GIVES
GOOD ANSWERS
Roosevelt Sends out Question Blanks
Regarding Condition of the
Farmers.


hobbist, but by commissions is trying
to regulate everything on earth, and
no doubt will pay his attention to the
heavens above and the other planets.
One of the most useless commissions
yetlappointed, out of the ninety-eight
thousand new appointees he has Great
ed in the past four years is the. COM
mission to investigate the sanitary and
economic condition of the farmers.
Maverick received one of these I
blanks, making inquiries enough and
desiring information enough to have
taken at least ten days of the writer
time in asking the ranchmen questions
about their home life to lead them to
think before we had proceeded very
far that we were meddling with some
thing which was none of our business.
Naturally the blanks found their way
to the waste basket, the receptical for
all impertinent documents. Mark
Bates, the editor of the Parma Her
aid, answered these questions in rath-
err ridiculous manner, and treated
the questions with the contempt they
deserved. Following are his answers;
@. Are the farm houses in your
neighborhood as good as they should
be under existing conditions?
A. Better than the average, and
as good as can be hoped for under
present financial conditions.
@. What suggestions have you to
make?
A. Kick out the trusts and their
protectors l. e., the Republican par
ty.
@. Are the schools in your neigh
borhood training boys and girls salts
factorialy for life on the farm?
A. No.
@. Why?
A. Because teachers are not quail
flied for that kind of work.
@. What suggestions have you to
make?
A. Put in Democratic teachers.
O. Do the farmers in your neigh
borhood get the returns they reason
ably should expect from the sale of
their products?
A. No.
@. Why?
A. Because the Oregon Short Line
takes all the profits for Transports
ton.
@. What sugges tions have you tc
make?
A. Get railroad commission not
controlled by the railroads.
@. Do the farmers in your neigh
borhood receive from the railroads,
high roads, trolley lines, ETC., the SER
vice they reasonably should have?
A. Service, yes.
Q. What suggestions have you tC
make?
A. They pay for it.
@. Do the farmers in your neigh.
borhood receive from the United State:
postal service, rural telephone etc.
the service they reasonably should ex
pect?
A. Yes-as soon as we get the
three rural routes now under consid
GRAFTON by the department.
@. What suggestions have you t.
make?
A. Give us a Democratic postmas
ter and raise his salary.
@. Are the farmers and thei
wives in your neighborhood satisfac
orily organized to promote their mu
tual interest?
A. No.
Q. Why?
A. Got telephones in all thei
I houses and they visit by telephone.
Q. What suggestions have you t
: make?
A. Charge 10 cents a call.
@. Are the renters of farms il
J your neighborhood making a satisfac
tory living?
A. Don't have any.
Q. Why?
a. everyone WORKS ms own larm
r Q. What suggestions have you t
make?
A. Send in homeseekers from Mis-
souri,.
Q. Is the supply of farm labor
your neighborhood satisfactory?
t A. Fairly so. Can stand fe'
more farm hands.
: @, Why?
A. We need them.
Q. What suggestions have you
! make?
A. Send Missourians.
Q. Are the conditions surroundin
: hired labor on the farms in YOU
o neighborhood satisfactory to the hire
/ men?