The Ordway new era., 1918-11-01
Farmer Of West
Get Raw Deals

vor of southern products. This has
been done by the southern Demo-
cratic coterie now in absolute control
of House and Senate, and by the
Democratic National Administration.
A price has been fixed on wheat,
but not on cotton or rice, both pure
ly southern products. Wheat by act
of the Democratic Congress is fixed
at s2.1O. With no price fixed on
wheat it is the general opinion that
the grain would bring far more to
the farmer than S2.10. The diff
ference in the price of wheat as fixed
by a Democratic Congress and DEM
ocratic Administration. and an open
market, is the difference in hard cash
that the northern, midwest and west
ern wheat farmer doesn't get. total
that would amount to hundreds of
millions of dollars. Prorated 1t
would b. a considerable sum in the
pocket Of each wheat grower.
Purely Sectional
Prices of cotton and rice are gov
erned only by the law of supply and
demand, unhampered by Democratic
Congressional! action, and consequent
ly the southern rice growers and cot
ton planters are rapidly becoming
wealthy with the enormously increas-
ed war time prices for rice and cot
to. 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 delegation says
what the wheat farmer shall get for
his crop, not what it should bring in
the worlds markets, as in the case
of cotton, which prior to the war sold
at 7c per pound, now sells for SIC,
regulated by the rule of supply and
demand.
Similarly a price has been fixed
on wool. 1t would be hard to COM
pute the immense sum that the mid
dle-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.
How About Lumber
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 produce
er intend to allow Democratic con-
gressional 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 Sec
tion.
The present Democratic Congress
is collecting the bulk of the revenue
to carry on the war and the govern
ment north of the Mason and Dixon
line. The Democrats accomplished
this by their control of the Ways and
Means and Finance Committees, in
which they have the majority MEM
berships 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.
South Is Favored
Most of the great government
plants for war work, most of the
army cantonments, and most of the
army aviation fields have been estab-
lished 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 pop
ulations the southern states not only
dominate Congress and the Admins
tration but collect immense sums
try. which they spend in their own
section. thru a southern Cabinet and
a 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 nothern
and western states have supplied
more troops for fighting the war with
Germany Ia glance at the casualty
list of any day will tell the story),
and have paid more taxes to support
the war than the southern states,
Secretary Baker has located most of
the army activities in the south where
army expenditures are pouring
steady stream of gold into the hands
OF the people of that section.
II the people of the United States
desire a fair administration of Ma
tional affairs they must elect a Re-
publican House and Senate Novem-
Der S.
Never In the history of this Re-
public has the power OF determining
the national policies been concentrate
ed in the hands of so few men. or SO
monopolized by small number of
states.