Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-19
PRESIDENT vETOES
s240 WHEAT BILL
SAYS New Price Would Raise Liv-
ing Cost.
4kLTS SIP A BARREL FLOUR
Executive in Message to Congress De-
ciares Patriotic Farmers Do Not
Need increase to Stimu-
late Production.

Washington. July Ii. President
Wilson vetoed on Friday the annual
gricultural appropria Ion bill, con-
aiming an amendment increasing the
Irice of wheat to $40 per bushel.
Members of congress from wheat
growing states will make fight to
lasS the bill over the veto, but indl-
-ations are that the wheat-price pro-
visions will be eliminated. The presi-
DENTS message said the increase in
| the price OF wheat would add s. to
| he cost of q barrel of flour, and
would add 1887, 100000 to the price of
the 900,0OO,O00 bushel crop Of 1918
wheat.
The Presidents Message.
The presidents message follows:
81 regret to return without my sig
nature SO important q measure as
| II. r. 1854, entitled AN Act Making
Appropriations for the Department of
Agriculture for the Fiscal Year End
ng June 30, 1919 but l feel con-
| strained to do so because of my earn
est dissent from the point of view OF
| principle as well as wise eXpediency,
rom the provisions of that part of
section IA which prescribes a uniform
| minimum price for No. 2 northern
spring wheat of $40 a bushel.
81 dissent upon principle because
believe that. such inelastic legislative
price provisions are insusceptible OF
bnt
| be advantageous either to the pro-
Queer or to the consumer, establish
ing as they do arbitrary levels which
are quite independent of the normal
market conditions.
1T is evident that the present
| method of determining the price to be
paid for wheat has had the most slim
ulating effect upon production, the es-
timated crop of spring wheat for this
year exceeding all high records in
very remarkable and gratifying way.
BY an overwhelming majority OF the
farmers of the United States the price
Enthusiastically fixed has been re-
garded as fair and liberal, and Objec-
tons to it have come only from those
sections of the country where, unfortu-
| nately, it has in recent years proved
impossible to rely upon climatic con-
ditiOns to produce full crop OF wheat
and where therefore, many disap-
pointments to the farmer have proven
to be unavoidable.
Not Necessary to Buy Farmers.
Il hnI hot
the farmers of the country depend
upon the stimulation of price to do
their utmost to serve the nation and
the world at this time of crisis by ex-
erting themselves to an extraordinary
degree to produce the largest and best
crops possible. Their patriotic spirit
in this matter has been worthy of AL
praise and has shown them playing
most admirable and gratifying part in
the full mobilization of the resources
of the country.
"To a very greatly increased pro-
duction of wheat they have added an
increased production of almost every
other important grain, so that our
tranaries are likely to overflow, and
the anxiety of the nations arrayed
against Germany with regard to their
food supplies has been relieved.
1.-The administrative method of
agreeing upon fair price has this
very great advantage, which any ele-
ment of rightly would in large part
destrOy-namely the advantage of
f1exibility, of rendering possible at
every stage and in the view of every
change of experience a REIMBURSEMENT
which will be fair alike to producer
and consumer.
Adds So Barrel to Flour.
"a fixed minimum price of $40
bushel would, it is estimated, add 81
q barrel to the price of flour in other
| words, raise the price of flour from the
present price of $1,000 to $3.50 at the
mill: and inaSmuch as we are antici-
pating a crop of approximately 900,-
100000 bushels of wheat this increase
would be equivalent to the immense
sum of 1887 100000.
"Such an increase in the price of
wheat in the United States would force
a corresponding increase in the price
of Canadian wheat. The allied govern
mentS would, of course, be obliged to
make all of their purchases at the in
creased figure, and the whole scale of
their financial operations in this coun-
try. in which the government of tn
United States is directly assisting,
would be thereby correspondingly en-
larged.
"The increase would also add very
materially TO the cost of living, and
there would inevitably ensue an in
crease in the wage paid in practically
every industry in the country. These
added financial and economic difficult
ties. affecting practically the whole
world. cannot. | assume, have been in
contemplation by the congress in pass
ing this legislation.
WOODROW WILSON"