South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-13
WANT TO DESTROY
MARKETS BUREAU
Produce Exchanges Want to
End Probes Tending 10
SqUeICh Their Crafts.
RY JOHN J. CARSON.


producer and consumer. are con-
tinuing their propasanda 20 prevent
the government from obtaining and
disseminating Information of BENZ
10 20 the farmer in obtaining "a fair
price. and Of benefit tc the consumer
In his effort 10 Jhwart the high cost
of living
You Will see that the four priuci-
pal markets Of the country are op-
posed 90 the activities OF the bureau
OF markets and consider mucn OF
the work which IL does. pure waste
reads a letter from the philadelphia
Produce exchange which was sent 10
a member OF the house in an EFFORT
70 prevent an appropriation for the
bureau Of markets
The letter was presented by Rep.
J. Hampton Mooro-the same Moore
form philadelphia who is now join-
ing with few others i'm controlling
congress since the east was put in
the saddle and the old doctrine that
nothing good. not even an idea.
comes from west OF tho Alleghenos.
was again given honorary standing.
For the farmers and consumers OF
the west. there should be much Of
interest IN just this evidence of the
danger which lies IN permitting a
party in power in congress 10 con-
centrate the controlling power IN a
few eastern states
Calls Expenditure Waste.
Moore insists that apprOpriatIng
money TO the bureau OF markets Is
wastefuI because it rs duplication
Of the work OF private exchanges.
He makes his attack along with a
general attack on agricultural au-
preparation bills 10 assist the farmer
Just as sen. Penrose from the same
state. Pennsylvania. has made and
VIII make future attacks on apprO-
PriatiOns TO assist the AGRICULTURAL
regions Of the country
The bureau of markets is a crea-
zion of this administration IL was
started by men in congress who in
sisted that the light should be turn
ed on. that the producer and con-
sumner should be advised by the gov
eminent of conditions 50 the pro-
Queer could sell TO Il good market
and get fair price and the con
sumner would know what the pro-
Queer was obtaining and not be
compelled to pay an excessive mid
dle-man's proht.
Is Brake on Leeches.
This was the theory. The bureau
has grown until now it takes more
than S4.OO0.0 900 a year TO operate
IT, 1t has admitted that some of the
money may have been wasted; that
efficiency 10 the extent desired by
everyone has not been attained as
vet. but II is admitted also by every
one that the fight Of the produce
exchanges is sufficinet TO show that
some good is being accomplished.
As Rep. Young of Texas, advised
Moore, IL the entire amount was
wasted. It would not compare with
what was lost by the consumers
and producers when 'Ieeches on so
ciety are permitted TO handle the
products of the farm and hold up
both producer and consumer"
Moore wants to know if the dem
ocratic members of the house would
abolish the produce exchanges and
he is informed by Rep. Young and
Rep. Lever and Rep. Caraway that
the only desire * to regulate the
exchanges so the iniqUitous practices
OF the past. known 10 every producer
and every consumer. shall be ended
and that il they cannot be ended
by regulation, then the exchanges
should be abolished.
Exposes Old Practice.
Lever tells what inspired the
bureau of markets. IL was the praC-
tice OF a few men in some big cities.
OF obtaining their own confidential
reports and then arbitrarily fixing a
price the consumer must pay fo-
produce. for eggs and butter. he
says One year the farmer would
be permitted 10 make a profit and
the next he would become a bank
rupt Then the bureau Of markets
scheme was devised by tho govern
ment and Lever advises Moore that
II he will md one producer who
objects 20 the bureau OF markets.
there will be reason for considering
their abandonment.
Moore and some OF his followers
are insisting that tie bureau of mar
kets assist the producers but not
the consumer. Il II not an assist
ance in the night on the high cost OF
Twins. they contend But Lever says
give Us light and the old days
when a produce exchange could
purchase eggs for 40 cents and then
arbitrarily sell them for so cents.
viii not continue.
some Republicans Favor Bureau.
IL IS simply Tor the purpose Of
gathering information furnishing IL
20 the public and undertaking there
by 20 stabilize prices and see TO II
that TAO man is gouGing the puonc.
saws Lever III that is not laud-
able proposition. ] would like TO
know what is one"
Becoming discouraged with the
tactics OF Moore. some OF his repub-
lican colleagues then got INTO the
controversy and advised him that
The bureau o. markets vas "a worthy
Institution Moore. finally realizing
the danger of has position. eudeavor-
ed 10 change the discussion 20 po-
itical one ard touched upon the
possibility OF the bureau OF markets
assisting the cotton farmers and then