The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-10-18
ACTIVITIES OF THE MIS-
souri, FARMERS ASSN
Time for the Farmers of Missouri t.
""Wake Up"

/ Time for the Farmers of Missouri to
'"Wake Up"
At the recent State Convention of
the Missouri Farmers Association
held at Sedalia, the more than 1000
school house Farm Clubs of Missouri
adopted a powerful resolution against
the Single Tax Amendment which is
being promoted by the so-called
Homestead Land and Loan League"
and which will be voted upon at the
forthcoming election in November
The resolution points out that unless
the farmers of Missouri wake up,
there is the gravest danger that this
amendment will become law and that
henceforth the land owners of this
State will be compelled to bear prac-
tically the entire burden of the coun-
| ty and State revenucs-a catastrophe
which would not only compel farmers
to pay millions in taxes in the years
to come which they do not owe but
which, still worse, would result in
tremendous shrinkage in farm land
values.
Six years ago when we voted upon
similar amendment the farmers of
the entire State were aroused to
white heat and it was overwhelming
ly defeated. This time, however, the
amendment is camoufaged behind the
innocent sounding name of the "Home-
stead Land and Loan League" and to
put sugar coating on the pill" this
League" has also submitted a COM
panion amendment which proposes to
provide farm loans at per cent. 1t is
the opinion of many that this COM
| panion amendment is intended mere
ly to throw farmers off their guard
and thus get them to swallow the Sin
gle Tax amendment without knowing
what they are really doing. Should
the Single Tax become law, it would
mean that the hundreds of millions of
dollars invested in Missouri in great
! corporations, banks, mercantile es-
! Establishments and other stocks, bonds
and securities would be exempt from
the payment of municipal, county and
State taxes, except as they are sub
| ject to incidental income taxes, etc.
That Organized Labor in the towns
and cities will line up almost solidly
for the amendment there is little ques-
tion--for as a class laboring men own
comparatively little land. Therefore,
if the farmers Of Missouri would de-
feat this menace, it is high time that
they arouse themselves to the danger
in every school district in the State.
1t is suggested that any farmer who is
willing to help out in this fight get in
immediate touch with the Missouri
Farmers ASSN at Columbia, Mo.
Fighting Farmers Packing Co.'S"
The Missouri Farmers Association
has put on it's "war paint" against the
effort which is being made to organize
so-called Farmers Independent Pack
ing Co.'S" in different parts of Mis-
souri, and at its recent State Conven-
ton held at Sedalia it adopted a
strong resolution warning the farmers
of the entire State against these en-
terprises which seek to capitalize the
wrongs of the farmer by furnishing a
lot of "easy money" to slick tongued
promoters. Last summer one of these
so-called Farmers" companies was
organized at Sedal;a. An old plant
and the farmers of Central Missouri
who nut S4OO 900 of their hard earned
money into it were assured not only
that the stock would he a "pilt edged
Investment" but that the plant would
nav them a "pood price" for their cat
tie, hogs and sheep. And so the stock
went like the proverbial "hot cakes"
| but several weeks ago the Com