Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-23
Full Market Price Should Be
Paid for Our American Wheat

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The Saturday News, considering
this article in the nature Of an editor
ial comment on feature which is
attracting nation-wide interest, wishes
it understood that it rs not censuring
Mr.. Livigston, whom 1t has long held
to be a personal friend, but. believing
that the matter concerning which Mr.
Livingston has gone to Washington to
be n Of f~ar-reaching importance,
this paper would feel itself to be
derelict of duty should it fail to speak
out at this moment, for its next edI
ton may be too late, since the price
will probably have been fixed.
The Worlds Markets.
But we fear that the South Dakota
market commissioner is making 81
mistake. Out of the goodness OF his
heart he wants to get for the farmer
all that can be gotten. III asking that
the minimum price at the farm be not
less than 50 for Mo. 2 wheat, he is
virtually %conceding that the price
should be below what the worlds mar
kets. if u~nTestraingd, would have fixed
The great steel trust today is get
ting for it's products what the worlds
markets have determined as the price
upon the law Of supply and demand.
The great powder trust is getting
for its explosives the market price
which the worlds demand has Great
ed.
The great copper-produring com.
pany is likewise getting for copper
the price which the worlds demand
has made.
A thousand and one other products
are selling today or the worlds mar
kets for the various prices which the
worlds demand. has ssreated or SdeteI-
mined.
Why should not the producers of
farm products gel Tor. their grams
such prices as the worlds demand
creates?
Hoover Bearing Prices.
Mr. Herbert Hoover the national
food commissioner, has been Dear-
ing prices for months, n-otwifhstaDd-
ing he has likewise been pointing out
the worlds shortage.
Through his i~ntimafinns, heTa ami
there, that il may be necessary fa,
the government either 10 aconlman-
deer the ent1a wheat crop of 1917,
or to control it and to aeraas the buyer
for its allies, the market has been
hammered down from ssgss25 to $3.50,
Notwithstanding Mr. Hoover has been
pointing u that the worlds shortage
of wheat today four hundred mil
lion bushels.
We regard Mr.. Hoover IS a great
He has giEsa sseaae Ell eIiessss
to support the theory. and If he con-
tinues to grew IN public estimation as
he has grown in the estimation Of
The. Saturday News during the past
few months, he will be n af the
nations biggest men " the close Of
this war.
Asks People to Conserve.
TO supply the deficiency in the
wheat crop, MI. Aoover has been arg
ing our housewives to economic all
along the line. A few days ago he
issued an urgent appeal for the nation
to ave mi pound of flour each week
pei capita BIZ reducing the consunnp-
ton from five pounds aweek to four
pounds, SO that we might have this
additional pound for our allies.
The saving of one pound ef four
each week per capita would mean the
saving Of one hundred million pounds
q week, OF about amil1ion and two
thirds bushels
We are askedsnot only toreduce
consumption by eating less a sub
gtituting other cereals for wheat but
we are asked to practice the most
rigid sort of saving - order that
waste mar 81 reduced 81 the mini
mum. @sS
Andw We ought / do III we ought
ID respond MrsHooyers appeal
and, Tor the most par, the American
people are responding and are going
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