The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-10-31
UNJUST D|sCR|MINA-
TON IS PRACT|5EO
Farmers of North, MiddIe-West and
West Caused to Suffer.

Does the American farmer desire 4
perpetuation of Democratic rule in
House and Senate:
Unjust discrimination has been
practiCed against the farmers Of the
North, Middle-West, and West by the
present Democratic Congress, in
favor of Southern products This
has been done by the Southern
Democratic coterie now in absolute
control of House and Senate, and by
the Democratic National Administra-
ton.
A price has been fixed on wheat,
but not on cotton or rice, both purely
southern products. With no price
fixed on wheat it is the general
opinion that the grain would bring
The difference In the price of wheat
as fixed by a Democratic Congress
and a Democratic Administration,
and an open market, is the difference
Western and Western wheat farmer
doesn't get, total that would
amount to hundreds of millions Of
dollars. Prorated it would be a con-
siderable sum in the pocket of each
wheat grover.
Prices OF cotton and rice are liked
by the law Of supply and demand
unhampered by Democratic Congress
Oh l. h,
southern rice growers and cotton
planters are gapidly becoming
wealthy with The enormously in
creased war time prices for rice ana
cotton. The southern Democrats
who control Congress have taken
good care that the Southern cotton
and rice grower shall not have the
prices Of his products controlled by
legislation, but this Southern dele
CATION says what the wheat farmer
shall set for his crop, not what it
should bring in tn worlds markets,
as in the case of cotton, which prior
to the war sold at 7c per pound, now
sells for 32c, regulated by the law
of supply and demand, but an arbi-
trary price that has taken millions
out Of his pockets.
Similarly price has been fixed
on wool 1t would be hard to
compute the immense sum that the
Middle-Western and Western wool
grower has lost by the arbitrary
fixing of the price Of his product,
Hundreds Of millions would not
cover his loss. Hardly any wool is
produced in the South.
A price has been fixed on coal,
Most of the coal is mined in the
North and Middle West
But no price has been fixed on
lumber, another principal product Of
the Southern States.
How long does the wheat farmer,
the wool grower and the coal pro
ducer intend to allow Democratic
Congressional discrimination in favor
of the cotton and rice planters and
the lumbermen of the Southern
States.
The discrimination against every
other section Of the country in favor
of the South is not the only way in
which the present Democratic Con-
gress has worked for its favored
section.
The present Democratic Congress
is collecting the bulk of the revenue
: yl,n t1,n
ment north of the Mason and Dixon
line. The Democrats accomplish
this by their control of the Ways
and Means and Finance Committees,
in which they have the majority
memberships and the chairmen
Not only do they collect most of the
revenue from the North, Middle West
and West but they spend most of
this revenue in the Solid South,
an unfair method Of distribution of
these immense sums.
Most of the great government
plants for war work, most of the
army cantonments, and most of the
army aviation fields have been
established in the Southern states
Money collected from the taxpay-
ers of the North, Midwest and West
is spent by millions in the favored
South. Paying comparatively small
amounts of taxes and with small
populations the Southern States not
only dominate Congress and the
Administration but collect immense
sums from the other sections of the
country, which they spend in their
own section, through Southern
Cabinet and Southern President,
who directs the expenditures.
Discrimination in favor of the
South as against the North and West
in location of cantonments and other
great war activities has been per-
sistently practiced by Secretary
Baker.
Despite the fact that the Northern
and Western States have supplied
more troops for fighting the war
with Germany "a glance at the
casualty list Of any day will tell the