The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-08-19
Farmers Warn That
Pro6teering and
Strikes Must Stop

the calmness of power to carry it out
to the letter, representatives of the
Farm Bureau Federation of the great
er producing regions of the United
States, the Middle West, today served
notice on capital and on labor that
profiteering and strikes must stop.
The alternative is reduced production,
resulting "ere the next cycle of the
season" in condition of living now
undreamed."
The notice and threat is contained
in a statement today by 0. E. BRAD
fute, president Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation, F. G. Crocker, president
Nebraska Farm Bureau Association;
j. G. Brown, president Indiana Fed
Grafton of Farmers Associations; D.
O. Thompson, secretary Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, and J. R. How
ard, president Iowa Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton
The statement contains also a care
full analysis of existing conditions.
Stagnation in production of manu-
factured goods and prepared food
stuffs, due primarily to strikes, price
manipulation and extravagant profits
of middle men, failure of practically
all folks to practice even ordinary
economy in public life, and the shift
ing of individual responsibility for
the existing situation, is declared by
the farm representatives to be the
basic cause of present high prices.
Denies Farmer Is to Blame.
They deny emphatically that it is
caused in any way by the orginial
price of farm products to the grower,
the storage of meats, vegetables,
fruits, eggs and poultry in season of
surplus against season of short sup
ply; the expectation of food and cloth
ing, or lack of desire on the part of
farmers to produce to the limit of
their physical ability. But while de-
claring himself ready to go to the
limit of physical ability in the mat
ter of production, the farmer will not
o alone, say the representatives, but
all other classes of labor must help,
and in this connection says:
''If capitalistic monopoly wants
enough food produced that it may be
feasted, if organized labor wants food
produced that it may be fed if the do
nothing dawdlers want enough food
produced so that they may occasional
v eat, let them stand forth now at
this time, when the farmer must de-
termine his 1920 food production pro-
gram and declare by deeds-cutting
out of profteering in goods and
wages, going honestly to the business
Of preparing and purveying the neces-
stiles of life, going honestly to the
job of doing a full days work for a
full days pay-their willingness to
cooperate Failure of these forces to
do this now will be boomerang, that
ere the next cycle of the seasons will
effect a condition of living now un.
dreamed"
Continuing, the statement says:
Now Time to Plan for Next Year.
"Now is the time silos must be fill
ed if feeding operations are to be en-.
, gagged in Now is the time the farm
: women determine the size of next
years flock of poultry. Now is the
time the farmer plans the next years
o corn acreage. In short, now is the
, season when the efficient farmer plans
the whole 1920 program. Right now
. the American farmer holds in his HAND
. the power to determine quite definite
ly the size of next years crop OF
y wheat, meat, milk, cheese, butter
poultry, eggs; in short, all foodstuffs
and with that to determine whether
!, or not the worlds table will be abun
: dainty supplied next year. The
American farmer individually and ir
his organization, recognizes his re
r sponsibility in this matter-provided
s however, that every good American
f citizen or foreigner within our Dor
: ders will let the scales drop from his
: 1Vn eyes and witness that he has az
individual and an organized responsi