The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-11
HOOVER POINTS PERIL 1
IN DELAY OF SENATE
Consumers and Producers at
Mercy of Food Gamblers.
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tailed. Therefore we must induce for
cign buyers to accept flour instead Of
wheat.
"5-ln order to do justice to the
producers who have shown great pa
triotism In special effort to increase
production in 1917 and to further slim
ulate the efforts Of 1918. ii is abso-
lntcly vital that we shall protect the
farmer from slump In price this year
due to n Elut as above or from the un-
controlled decisions of any one bllver.
am Informed that most Of the allied
countries have fixed the price Of wheat
to the farmer at $50 per bushel and
many Of their producers believe that
as allies II is our duty to furnish wheat
at q price which. delivered to them.
will not exceed their domestic price.
in other words. about $3.50 per bushcl.
Chicago.
Neither their responsible officials.
nor I hold this view. because con-
slider that the stimulation to produc-
ton. If for no other reason. is in the
long run in the interest of the allies.
There is. however limit to prices
which so trcspasses npon the rights of
the consumers as to defeat it's own OBJ
iect through strikes. raises in waecs
and social disturbances in the country
IT is with the view to finding a solu-
ton to these problems. filled with the
greatest dangers to both our pro-
ducers and consumers. that legislation
has been proposed and pressed for
speedy enactment.
Wait on Legislation.
's-The proposed food administra-
ton has conferred with many hundred
patriotic men engaged in production
and distribution and has investigated
the condition of the consumers in
many centerS as well Many plans
have been tentatively put forward and
abandoned and others have developed.
but in any case. none has or can be
settled until legislation has been com
pleted. Three facts stand out plainly
enough from our Investigations
First that in this situation. the
farmer will need protection as to the
price Of wheat. and second, that large
masses of people in the consuming
ccnters are. being actually under
nolrishcd today due to the eXorbitant
cost of living and that these condi-
tons. unless some remedy be found
are likely to repeat themselves in even
more vicious form at this time next
year: third the SPECTATOR legitimate
or vicious. has taken a large part Of
the money now being paid by the con-
sumner.
Ut seems to be overlooked in
some quarters that the marketing Of
! this years wheat is surrounded with
| circumstances new to history, and that
| the old distributing, safeguards are
torn away by isolation from the recin-
rocal markets abroad and the cxtinc-
| ton of n free export MARKET and free
export transportation.
The harvest has begun to move and
from these very causes the price of
| wheat has begun to drop and if the
| farmer is to sell his wheat, the
SPECTATOR must return TO the market
| to buy and carry on not only the nor
nal flow from the farmer in excess
of domestic and foreign requirements
| but also the glut due to the restric-
ton upon the outlet to the latter
! He must necessarily charge his toll
to the producer and the consumer and
tensive scale than last year as his
risks will be greater.
| 'Practically, the export buyer must
fix his own price for export wheat
! from the sole outlook of his own eli