Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-19
Friday Morning, October 10, 1917.
THE FARMER AND HIS WHEAT.

To people living in the highly ndusrialized state OF
Arizona where copper regns supreme and wheat is
merely conjure WITH the attitude of the
farmers of the middle peculiar, to say the
least. To those who live from daily paid by
copper producing companies where the price of
is stated these to be attempting to trade
places with what is known profiteers.
Products of the farm indispensable to the lives
of all American Copper iron, lead and thousands
of other products also indispensable Mythology
ords period time food, alone necessary.
That time passed before gunpowder invented Both
food and metals needed-and badly By agreement,
otherwise many of the products American farms
and factories mines have been priced-by the gov
eminent There is some complaint. little has been
heard from copper producers little has emanated from
other industrial circles greatest from.
the whose wheat 1917 be sold $500
bushel
Poor Mr.. Farmeri
Pampered peted abused, cajoled bilked the form
er of the United States wears perpetual chip on
shoulder When the nation decided piece
from its resting place the governmental agency
took healthy blow and returned big price for wheat
The farmer is either parochia in his instincts
genital to infinite degree is perhaps modifica
ton of the two
Time was when dollar wheat gave the farmer his
back from the bank, automobile,
CINE the best food in the world-home grown-and
money in the bank with which to educate his children
and replace any part of his house which he may
whitfield away in his leisure Wheat brings
the farmer S22O. Yet he cries Let be acknowledged
that prices everything-those by
sary the neck stretch pocketbook The
getting hundred per cent his
grain today than he did given of years.
The copper producers. the other hand get stated
price approximately sixtyve per increase above
the average years. There no and outcry,
however the copper producers They mobiliz-
ing sons their wealth and their industries They
in other words are not parochial
Support of the from possible angle, is alb
soutey necessary The farmers needed Their prod
uct is essential successful prosecution of the
More than other class they protect themselves
from the increased of living They substitute sup
port for chickering's however and refuse aid comfort
their country. thereby giving enemy what they
should be extending at home.
to be hoped the farmer will come to his senses
He help the present Liberty other classes
helping
E. d. Hubert Chicago banker, in discussing the lack
the loan throughout middle pene
trated the of the question:
'The one weak spot in the situation is the attitude
of the farmers They will neither buy Liberty Bonds pay
taxes, sell their produce fight / have asked many
of callers here about farmers paying
have heard of only instance of farmer paying
income They proed throughout the period of
war but unwilling to help the government any
of the four ways mentioned. The farmers have been
hampered by politicians until they they
privileged class.
Heretofore the American farmer has been the back
bone of the nation Let it be said that present
extremity he did not do his duty
Never look a gift horse the mouth No-ook him