The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-11
A PLAIN TALK TO THE
Patriotic Farmers
of Montana
By CARL w. RADDICK, A Farmer from Fergus County,
Republican Candidate For
CONGRESS
From Eastern Montana

the chief product of the south
namely, cotton. If you Send me to
Washington will work to correct
THIS gross injustice.
WHEAT PRICE TOO Low.
L will also work to raise the price
OF wheat. The present administra-
ton vetoed $3.50 for wheat because il
would raise the cost of living to the
working man. Let US look into this.
A barrel of flour takes Az bushels
OF wheat. Raising the wheat from
$500 to $3.50 would raise the cost
Of flour 1925 per barrel. In peace
time the average American eats q
barrel OF flour a. year. Suppose :.
NO: king man has a wife and four
children, giving the wheat raiser a
square deal on price would raise the
cost of living to a working man
$3.50 per year, or practically one
collar per month, and working men
are earning from $500 to $4,000 per
day, OF 800 to 5000 per month. But
the administration wouldn't allow
! men to be charged a dollar a month
more for their -four. And yet the
DEMO- at party claims to be the
friend of the farmer and wants YOUR
vote.
WHY a RICH MAN KICKED
| had other iniustices against the
farrl"'" foIc:bly brought TO my atten-
ton Wien cted assessor Of Fergus
county by my farmer friends four
years ago. had promised to assess
all kind of property alike. Our laws
demanded this and / thought no one
WculI complain. Small farmers,
owning two or eight cows, were as
sessed for that number and none of
them complained in the least, but
when put on the assessment books
the 1000 head of cattle owned by
one Of the wealthiest men in the
state the rich man was astounded.
He had reported but TOO head. He
wrote me a letter stating that for 20
years he had run cattle on the free
range Of Montana and never before
had he even been asked to give an
accounting. For 20 years he had
seen no injustice in a custom where
by the little fellow paid his full share
of taxes while the big man paid less
than one-quarter of his. The rich
man didn't like me for making him
pay his fair share. Probably other
rich men will feel the same when
vote at Washington for laws which
treat them exactly like the poor man.
I intend to do so just the same. I
consider that as one of the things you
will be sending me to congress for.
PATRIOTIC TAX DODGERS.
Rich money lenders of Fergus
county did not like it because I made
them pay taxes on their money loan
ing corporations. They never had
paid, although they were getting rich
off the thousands of 10 per cent mort
cages plastered on farms in Fergus
and adjoining counties. They gloried
in their patriotism, while lodging
their taxes.
Some of the oil companies, rail
road companies and express COM
panies made an awful fuss when
required them for the first time In
their experience, to pay taxes like
ordinary folks.
/ didn't mistreat anybody because
he was big. | just treated everybody
alike. And the people of Fergus
county placed their stamp of approx
al on my work by re-electing me by
5000 more votes than were cast for
the head of my ticket.
| want to go to congress to give
you the same kind of service there.
SOAKED BY THE MEAT TRUST |
Last fall I took six cars of cattle
to the Chicago market. The day be-
fore I sold my cattle the government |
had given the packers the largest
contract for meat ever made. The
meat prices We're advanced to our
government, to our allies and to pri-
vate consumers. Were the prices adj
vanced to we cattle growers from
Montana? Not much! The market
dropped the day we arrived. The
meat combine has such an absolute
monopoly that it can raise the price
of meat to consumers all over the
land and reduce the price to produc-
eTs of cattle on the same day. That |
is just what was done.
Last year the meat combine made /
20 per cent profits. Last year many
farmers fed livestock at loss to help