The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-09

: RESOLVED, that for the welfar
OF the nation and to make it possibl
70 raise a food crop equal to tn
needs of cur co.ntry and it's Allies
40 respectfully urge our govern
ment, and especially do we urge up
on the President, the congress an,
me department of agriculture, Il
provide at once for lending to thes
farmers at a low rate of interes
such sums as they need in order tina
they may remain upon the battle lin,
OF production for the nations war ne
eessities.
WHEREAS, members of the
boards of trade and chambers of com
'nerce are proposing to collect fol-
acting as the purchasing agents OF
the government a fee higher thar
mat exacted in previous years, al
though by reason of a fixed price
and sure market they render prac.
ideally no useful service; now, there
| lore, be it
hESoLVED, that we respectfully
urge the food administration to cease
operating through and paying toll to
useless m1ddlemen, and that it en-
gage its old employees to buy grain
Greet from the producer Or possess
ors OF 1t; and be it further
RESOLVED, that in case the food
administration deem it impossible to
make this change at once, we urge
that the commissions paid to private
purchasing agents be reduced to a
sum commensurate with the service
renaered and we respectfully point
out that we do not recognize any ne
cessity for the government to main
tain in idleness the staff employed
by the grain commission men and
merchants in the process of grain
buying and specializing as ordinarily
conducted in times of peace.
WHEREAS, it is apparent that
gross determinations against both
the farmer and the consumer are re-
sultlng and will result from the pres
ent food administration plan of bas
ing all prices upon an imaginary con-
centration of all wheat and a distri-
button of all its products from one
central market point, causing heavy
and unnecessary sacrifice to both
farmers and consumers, since the re-
auction in the price of wheat is not
reflected in a corresponding reduc-
ton to the consumer; now, therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, that we recommend
the establishment by the govern
ment of price fixing zones, as has
been done by France, with uni
form price to the farmer at the
point of delivery from the farmers
wagon. Be it further resolved, that
the practice Of cooperative buying
and peddling from railway cars and
public markets be aided and eneour-
aged by our government and the
food administration.
WHEREAS, the Federal Grading
System takes no account of the mill
ing value of grain and results in dis /
elimination in price, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the milling
value of grain be made the basic test
of differences in price and grade.
WHEREAS, the expenses of the
war for the first year alone, author
lied and projected, amount to twenty
billions twenty thousand millions)
of dollars and are mounting at ter
rife rate, SO that if the war con-
tinues only two years the interest on
the sum expended on the war opera
lions alone, without cost of pensions
and reconstruction Of industry, will
to nearly twice the ordinary
annual expenditures of the govern
ment for all purposes, and
WHEREAS, unless new and extra
ordinary means for providing cur
rent revenue are found and applied,
means which will go far beyond the
,imid and wholly inadequate war tax
alton provisions planned by the pres
INT congress, the crushing burden OF
iebt will endanger the very founda-
ions of our government and imperil
he credit and honor of the Ameri-
AN people, besides condemning its
oilers to years of heartbreaking
struggle and misery to meet the OBJ
legations held by creditor class,
;hus sowing the seeds Of discomfort
md even rebellion, and s
WHEREAS, there exists the fund
rom which all or nearly all of the
var expenses can be paid and IL
undated, while the war is in pro-
rress fhis fund heinp the hinge s1lr-