Williams news., 1916-11-02
FARMER REAPS GAIN
 BY E|CHT.H0UR LAW
Prevented Tying Up of Crops
 Valued at $6,OO0,cO0,O0O.
BY FRANK G. ODELL
Editor Nebraska Farm Magazine.

The New York Sun quotes James Wilson, of Iowa, former Secretary Of Agriculture, as saying that the farmers were hit hardest by the Adamson Eight-hour Law, which stopped the threatened general railroad strike. According to The Sun, MT. Wilson said:
 "The farmer has no eight-hour day. Should that number of hours become general in all occupations, including the farm, the prices of food would rise still higher than those current"
 The logic of the venerable ex-Sec- retary is bad. The farmer is not wOr- rying about the high price of food. He raises his own food. He grows food for sale. That's his business. If, as the eX-Secretary says,-thel eight-hour day will increase the cost of food,-the farmer has everything to gain. .I
 And Uncle Jim" has overlooked the fact that the farmers of the United States had not less than $6,0O0, 0,O00,00O worth of products practically ready to send to market when the strike crisis was imminent at the first of September. The threatened strike would have paraIyzed the farmers market and stopped the wage of the worker in every industry.
 Incalculable losses, running into hundreds of millions, were averted when the strike was prevented. Woodrow Wilson did it.
 ''Tama Jim" was Secretary of Agri- culture through four Republican Ad- ministrations-sixtee years. These were sixteen years of monopolistic control of the farmers market. Dur ing this period, these great cOmbina- tionS, which have stood between the producer and the consumer, reached the zenith of their power. Greed and eXtOrtiOn ran riot.
 During this period, the farmers of the country complained continually of capitalistic extortion. They held con ventions throughout the great grain and live stock belt to voice their pro test. They sent deputations of able men to Washington. They sent their appeals for justice to the Secretary of Agriculture and waited at the door of the White House during the admin istrations of Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft. They asked for bread and re- ceived stones of indifference. They demanded justice and received plati tudes about prosperity" "content- ment," and making two blades of grass grow where one grew before"
 Then came another Wilson-Wood- row Wilson. Things began to change David F. Houston was made Secretary of Agriculture. For the first time in business problems of the farmer re- ceived the attentions of his Govern ment. The Office of Markets and the Bureau of Rural Organization were created to help him break the strangle- hold of entrenched monopoly. The epoch-making Rural Credits Law was passed by Woodrow Wilson and d Democratic Congress. The power of the usurer and extortioner was broken when that Act was signed. r
 The farmer has good memory. He does not forget his lifelong battle with entrenched privilege organized and grown purse-proud during forty years of Republican indifference and misrule. He will not forget that it was WOODROW WILSON, the Peoples President, who saved his market from ruin on Sept. ?, 1916. The special pleadings of Republican defenders of special privilege and monopoly will find the farmers ready on Nov. z.