Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-12


Now you will tell me if you force
taxation on mortgages it will cause the
ihoneysto be sent out Of the country.
| can only reply, start your influence
at the national source for appeals |
never have seen anything in congress
that even limited at correcting this
crime against the money borrower. The
money borrower should pay taxes on
what he is worth, and the money loaner
should pay taxes ON what he is worth.
II would have a strong tendency to
keep the welLt0-do business man from
retiring and loaning out his money. 1t
would compel the well-to-do farmer to
stay on the farm, and draw the people
from the city to the country.
While we are talking about taxes
let me suggest you keep an eye on the
tion, and see that there isn't such a
rank variation in the valuation of
prtpehties. For instance over near
Brooks the assessed valuation of land
last year was fifty dollars an acre,
while here ON Howell Prairie it was
one hundred dollars an acre. Yet if we
wanted to trade farms with them they
would consider their land worth just
as much as ours. You mustn't forget
that Salem is the state capital and a
county seat. And any city is CON
sidered just as corrupt as the political
machine that keeps house within her
limits.
Now as to the value of your agri.
cultural expert, Mr.. l.. j. Chaplin. As
man have no personal knowledge
Of him. He may be an expert or he
may not. What ! have to say has
nothing to do with his personality.
What | wish to talk about is his value
to the country.
Now, gentlemen, in order to give
weight to my remarks l must say a
few words in regard to myself. am
graduate of the Nebraska school of
Agriculture in the class of 1905. NY
high grades in all studies gave me an
! average of excellent and the school
paper in eulOgizing on the different
/ graduates stated had strong person.
atty and would no doubt be an in.
| fluential member of what ever section
Of the country L settled In. After |
graduated | was very enthusiastic to
increase the yield and improve the
quality Of my crops. bought the first
press seed drill in the neighborhood
and proved that Just as good small
grain could be grown with. half the
seed usually planted to the acre.
was fast developing a potato that Eas
/ free from disease and uniform in shape
/ by scientific selection, and had greatly
increased the yield from the same. My
neighbors were beginning to pay at
/ tention. Then / sold out and came
west. With these few remarks in re-
gard to myself l will proceed with
1 what / have to say about the work OF
Mr.. l.. j. Chaplin. When there is sur.
plus already produced why would you
produce more? 1t costs more to handle
big crop than it does a small one
Last year oats were forty cents @
bushel, this year thirty-two. This year
we had little larger crop. The middle
man Jumped at the chance to contest
the market, and the farmers of the
Willamette Valley get less money by
several hundred thousand dollars fol
their big oat crop this year than fol
their small crop last year. Take it OF
an average over the United States oatt
are four cents higher than last yea
at this time. Wheat is ten cents cheap
er this year than last; and on account
Of the free tariff unless the farmel
can get control of the market wheat
ha IL ho.
been known since Cleveland g ad
ministration. Do you count on you
breakfast goods being any cheaper
Two years in succession the farme
has lost money on his potato crop
During this time in Kansas and Okla
homa good potatoes have not gone be
low one dollar and quarter per bushel
In California right now they are sell
ing select baking potatoes at thre,
pounds for quarter. Who is to blam
for all this2 That is for you to fine
out and rectify if you are in earnes
about wishing to help the farmer. TIL,
trouble is at the commercial end O.
the business Find out why Colorado
potatoes are shipped to California Rnt
Oregon potatoes are left to rot in tn,
pit while Kansas and Oklahoma q
without, and correct the error. TIL,
farmers of the United States are goinj
to correct these wrongs for themselvet
ia time the same as the farmers o
Denmark. But they will lay a littl
lighter on your necks in the days o
their victory, il you show your GOO
will and jump in and help.
Now what good does it do for MI
Chaplin to go around and tell the farm
ers how to produce more' In his recen
report Secretary Houston says, "How
ever desirable Increased production OIL
farms may appear from the consumers
standpoint, it does not follow such in
creased production would result in an.
increase in the cash income per farm
or per capita of farm population.
"When the price of farm product
can be maintained at higher leve
without increasing the price to con
sumers, farmers will be justified in in
r creasing the output of their farms"
Now when you say that Mr.. Chapi
} has increased the profits on thousand
J of farms in the county of Marion in tn
/ last year L don't believe it. And a
for his advice being eagerly sought b
! the farmers / don't believe that either
! have had too much experience givin
: advice to farmers even with my proof
before their eyes not to know tn
r farmer is suspicious of and very slON