The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-13

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freight or commission has ever been
paid, is not true, and the falsity of it
could easily have been ascertained
by the commissioner if he had tried
to be fair.
GAS to the statement that the
grain corporations rule that dissat-
isfied farmers may appeal to Max
Houser of Portland on grades and
inspections, and, if dissatisfied with
his decision, may appeal to julius
Barnes Of Duluth, is an insult to the
intelligence of our citizenship, may
be entirely true. leave it to those
who are familiar with the two-year
record of the grain corporation and
personally acquainted with Mr..
Houser and Mr.. Barnes to give the
answer to that.
FalsehOOd or Sophistry
"The statement:
Putting out orders, instructions,
circulars and propaganda inferring,
without saying so, that the guaran-
teen price is restricted price over
which the buyer can not pay
"This can be answered catagorically
also that it is false. The statement:
Illegally curtailing the price of
wheat by openly stating vicious
threat to resell wheat and curtal for
eign shipments in order to control the
domestic price of wheat to the detri-
ment of the producer and the advan-
tage of the miller
1--WE have the best authority for
this, of course, in that the president
of the United States in special mes
sage to congress, assembled for that
purpose, stated that the national pol
icy on wheat, in the protection of our
consumers, would be to do just ex-
actly these things. The statement:
Malicious manipulation of grades
and standards in order to reduce the
farmers income and to deny him
access to free and unrestricted mar
ket.'
''This is false.
Ignoring the tremendous loss sus-
tanned by the producer on account of
conditions, and wilful failure
to consider the toll of the farmer, his !
wife and children.
"This is mere sophistry.
'Misstating facts when it pub J
fishes a theoretical average price of /
S2.05 a bushel which the farmer is |
to get when in fact he is |
receiving as low as S1.15 in many
states and a general average of pos
sibly not more than $3.50 bushel.'
'This is a direct challenge of fact, /
and easily demonstrated whether the +
knew the facts or not. /
'Penalizing the wheat grower by
1 system Of grades and discounts for i
wheat shriveled by the extreme heat,
when they are grinding these grades
nto the best patent flour to be sold
o the consuming public at a price
,ased ON grade No. L.
"This is cheap bit of sophistry
md no fair man maintains that wheat
hriveled and damaged by heat is
worth fully the same price as that
wheat in prime condition"
At the conclusion of his exhaustive
nswers Mr.. Barnes declared that ito
nswer Mr.. Cannon in the same spirit
{ unfairness and prejudice IN whick
he questions were propounded would
My add rancor to the argument.
might add, however, that the Z
entleman from Idaho is correctly Z
efined by the dictionary as being a 3
arge bore and mostly all mouth"
Tart Rejoinder to Cannon
After answering the questions pro-
ounded by Miles Cannon, Mr.. Barnes &
as presented with series of ques-
ons from the farmers union. These 3
uestions, read by President Gilmore, &
ere answered in order and the grain Z
1ministrator's answers were cheered
Y the audience.
To the question, what is the Z
orld's wheat market and how is it
rived att" Mr. Barnes replied: 4
"There are today only four over q
,as sellers namely Argentina, Aus z
ala, Canada and the United States.