The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-24

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why should not the government buy
the crop outright?"
That's just what it means" said
Mr.. Nelson.
other speakers were Sec: Charles w.
Holman of Madison, Wis, Of the Ma
tional Agricultural Organization So
ciety; Representative Magnus john
son of Kimball Mimi; former State
Senator j. G. Gunderson of Aneta;
Pres. Frank L. McVey of the state uni
versity, and M. ". Boldly Of the state
Equity organization.
Committee on Resolutions.
Members of the committee on resolu-
tions, named by Chairman Anderson,
were Atty. Benjamin Drake, Magnus
johnson, ]. G. Gunderson, F. L. Nc
Vey, Howard Wood of Fargo, and
Peter Suhumski of Lisbon.
The resolutions adopted are as fol-
lows:
Il. We believe that the present war
emergency and the worldwide short
age necessitate that our federal gov
eminent shall take upon itself larger
powers in order to encourage greater
food production, and to control the sale
and distribution of food products. We
believe that such action would be in
the interests of producers and consum-
"2. We favor a rigid governmental
guarantee to the farmers of profitable
prices for staple farm products. Such
guarantees are necessary for farmers
to know how to reorganize their farm
ing operations and to secure an in
creased production Such reorganiza-
ton incurs extra OUTLAWS of capital and
extra expense for labor and other es-
sential factors In the event that the
government should see fit to fix the
prices of food products that farmers
shall obtain,swe also favor rigid gov
ernmental control of the prices of 9TH
er commodities than food, such as fuel,
clothing and agricultural requirements
necessary or incident to the manufac-
turing and mobilization of farm prod
ucts. We believe that the principal
factors in determining, the prices of
farm products to farmers should be the
average cost of producing such prod
ucts.
"3 We earnestly suggest that in
line with the course of other warning
nations the government shall immedi-
ately prepare itself to seize and oper-
ate, whenever and wherever necessary,
all transportation agencies and termin-
al elevators and warehouses.
~. We hereby empower the COM
mittee which has been designated to
represent us at Washington to system
atize and present all necessary data
and to ascertain the wishes of this con-
ference and of other grain growing in
terests as to what is considered by the
farmers to be fair price guarantee on
the standard graQeS or grain. your
committee after careful consideration
of such facts and data as it has avail
able is of the opinion that the price
guaranteed by the government for our
1917 crop of wheat shall be $3.50 per
bushel for No. 1 northern wheat at
northwestern terminals and we believe
that the delegation to be sent to Wash
ington to represent this conference
shall use every legitimate effort to es-
tablish this price.
20. This conference also takes the
opportunity to express it's loyalty to
the president and the government of
the United States and to state the de-
sire of farmers organizations of the
northwest, represented here, to coop
crate in the working out of this most
important policy of food production
control.
&c. Resolved, further, that future
trading in farm products be prohibited,
not as a temporary war measure, but
as a permanent governmental policy.
"Signed):
Benjamin Drake, Minneapolis;
Frank L. McVey, Grand Forks,
(By Charles w. Holman);
"Magnus Johnson, Kimball, Mimi;
Howard r. Wood, Deering, N. D.; Z
"P. A, Suhumski, Lisbon, N. D.;
Charles e. Drown, Page, N. D.:
Members of resolutions committee"