The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25

Inc Second Congressional D;str;.
VI montana includes the 81 easts ;,
.uunues' as follows: Big Horu
lame Carbon. Carter, Cascade
Dho'eau' Custer. Dawson, Fallon
Fergus E Hill ILL., Aeagher. Iusselshell
Park. Phillips, Prairie, Richland
Rosebud, Sheridan, Saltwater. sweet
grass, Teton, Toole, Valley. Wheat
iano, Wibaux and Yellowstone.
The wheat producing farmers O.
montana are receiving outrapeousl,
unfair and indefensible treatmeo,
| rom the present Democratic admin.
istratlon. It has fixed the price o,
our Wheat below the actual cost .,
production and HAS permitted to
soar without limit the prices of al
substitutes, and all articles that en-.
ter into wheat production.
The people have the right TO sx.
Fect their representatives will dill.
gently serve their legitimate inter
ests, and this I charge our represen-
tatlves have not done.
Congiess recently passed a meas
ure increasing the price of wheat. Il
vas known to all that if 1920 was a
1alr price in 1917, that it was too
low for the 1918 crop, because the
price of all commodities had ad-
vanced by leaps and bounds, while
wheat only remained unchanged.
This subject was of vital import
ance to thousands of patriotic farm
ers of Montana. It meant the diff
terence between breaking even and
failure. No other problem before
Congress meant so much to Mon
tana people. Were our representa-
tlves present, leading in the fight for
just treatment of their constituents i?
They were not. I am reliably in
formed that not one of the delega-
ton from Montana took a leading
part in this effort to bring belated
Justice to the hard working and pa
triotic farmer of their state, and
that when the matter came to a vote
that three of them were actually so
Indifferent as to the interests Of
their home people that they were not
even present to vote.
Not a single representative from
Montana has made any determined
effort to fix the price of cotton, or
the price of substitutes in harmony
with the fixed price of wheat.
Not representative from Montana
made any determined effort to have
the prices of farm machinery or bin
der Irvine fixed in harmony with the
price of wheat.
Not representative from Mon
tana raised voice of protest against
the 80 per cent profit made by GER
tain ship building corporation. Not
a representative from Montana was
heard to make demand that the farm
ers of the northwest be permitted to
make reasonable profit from their
labor.
Twenty-six cents a bushel increase
in the price of wheat on Montana's
estimated 3OO,OOO,O0O bushel crop
this year meant a net gain of $751;
100000 to the farmers of Montana.
A reasonable fixing of prices on
farm machinery and binder Irvine
and substitutes for wheat, in har-
mony with a fair wheat price would
have saved Montana farmers another
$125, 100000.
This 5000, 100000 lost to our farm
ers, and lost to our state, is just that
much arbitrarily and unjustly taken
away from us, and is unjustly taken !
with no voice of protest, and no eft
fort to correct the injustice with con-
structive measures, by single mem
Der of congress from this state. This
was all-important to the people OF
this state, but was ignored by our
in Washington.
I desire to be elected to congress
to represent the people of eastern
Montana, and to earnestly and Wig
orously speak, work and fight, if need
be, for the things we are interested
in and are entitled to.
It is urged that the price OF wheat
is fixed at a low figure so that we
NAV sell it at a low figure to our al
lies. and that the cost of living may
be reduced to the wage earners.
If that be true, then the govern
ment should permit farmers to re-
ceive a fair price for their wheat and
absorb the difference between the
price to farmers and the price it de-
sires to ask of the allies.
1t is proper to keep the price OF
-four down for the wage earners, but
The government should then absorb