Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-07-27
MIDDLRTOWN, DEL, JULY 10th. 1871
WILSON'S WHEAT PRICE VETO

WILSON'S WHEAT PRICE VETO
DRESIDENT Wilson's veto of the
1 Senate bill adding but twenty
cents to the price of bushel of wheat,
when at 81. 20 it barely returns the cost
of raising, was it craftsmanship, or
politics ? The voters answer will be
known next November 9Th.
Cotton profteers in the favored
South can boost their kingly product
until the very poor may have to 60
shirtless. No matter, "Cotton is King, !"
is the old cry from Dixie to which Mr..
Wilson ever lends friendly ear.
Fertilizers are up over 100 per cent. {;
labor sky-high. in fact, fast becoming
prohibitive, common farm hands get
ting from four to six dollars day and
board ! The farm machinery barons
are skinning the poor farmer without
mercy. Everything from bed to board
is more than doubled, all the necessi-
ties of life, food, raiment-everything !!
On top of all these things the farmer
must gamble with the seasons, often
SOW, toll and get nothing, or, as this
year, but half crop or less |!
Therefore at 81 20 a bushel for his
wheat, the Delaware farmer is just
about making bare living. Congress.
realizing the injustice of refusing the
farmer a little profit after all his long
years of toiling to give the world cheap
bread, adds few pennies more-and
Mr.. Wilson promptly vetoes the bill
His alleged ''reasons" are unsound.
Reason l. IAN overwhelming ma
jority Of the farmers of the United
States regard this go price as fair and
liberal, &c. The very reverse of this
is. we believe, true of ian overwhelm-
ing majority of the farmers" of Della
ware and elsewhere.
Reason 2. "That it viii add 500
b.lshel to the cost of a barrel of -four"
Any 9Th year grade school lad can re-
flute this absurd statement Thus: It
takes from five to FIVE and half bu-
shells Of wheat-s0metimes less than
five-to make barrel of flour, and 5
or s. times 20 cents. by any other than
White House mathematics, amounts to
$l.OO, or at most to 81 10 more cost for
barrel of flour So much for thatn
Nor will the empty compliments the
President with his smooth rhetoric,
pays the farmer, atone for the robbery,
for the sweet stuff he laddles ont is
truly an instance where Zine words
butter no parsnips.''
But what makes this act OF Mr.. Will |
son wholly unwarranted, is that he thus
unjustly seeks to. throw the blame for |
the high cost of flour upon the farmer,
right in the teeth of the report of his |
own Food. Commission showing that
the big profiteering -four mills are MAX
my over 400 per cent. profit where the
raiser Of the grain is barely getting his
cost out of it, But it is safer to sand
bag the politically unorganized farmers
than the mighty millionaire corpora
tipns
Here is what q wheel-horse Demo-
cratic senator, Gore, chairman of the
Agricultural Committee, thinks of Mr..
Wilson's veto: Wisdom, justice and
craftsmanship prompted both senate
and house to raise the price of wheat.
Then the veto of Democratic presi-
dent was not wisdom, justice and
statesmanship!" l
Senator Gore then spoke this Cassan-
dra prophecy: IF the next house is Re-
publican, / believe it will be due to this
veto." If one may Judge from thees-
pressions Of justly angered Democratic |
farmers one hears, it is easy to fopesee
that Senator Cores warning words will
be abundantly verified in this; seotien