The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-11-24
STRIKE OPPOSED
BY CONGRESsMEN
FRENCH, OF IDAHO; AND WEB
STER, OF WASHINGTON, TALK
ED TO FARMERS.

meeting of farmers, bankers ant
others interested in the marketing oil
wheat, was held at Spokane yester.
DAY. Hon. Burton L. French, con-
gressman for the First Idaho district
was one of the principal speakers
and presented his plan for the finan-
eng OF the wheat crop by federal
reserve bank aid as he had outlined
1T IN addresses at Moscow. The Spo-
Kane Chronicle of Tuesday night
glves the following account of the
meeting:
Don't strike in order to secure
mgher wheat prices. Congressman
J. Stanley Webster.
The farmers are out after the Chi
cago board of trade and are going to
get it."-A. A. Elmore.
Enactment of a protective tariff;
appointment of a commission to han
die wheat available for export; aboli-
ton OF futures dealing on the Chicago
board OF trade, and the establishment
OF greater leniency in recognizing
wheat credits were recommended by
Congressman Burton L. French of
Idaho and j. Stanley Webster before
q large meeting of farmers at the
Davenport hotel today.
Three Hundred Meet
The meeting included close to 300
farmers, bankers and other business
men from all parts of eastern Wash
ington, northern Idaho and northern
Oregon. The purpose of the meeting
as explained by A. A. Elmore, presi-
dent of the Washington and North
ern Idaho Wheat Growers association
was to Counsel upon a situation
which augurs bankruptcy for thou
ands OF farmers, and mortgages for
thousands of others"
In his address Congressman Web
ster charged that the government had
profiteered to the extent of $50,O0O,-
900 in marketing the last crop under
the guaranteed price, and he pleaded
with the farmers not to resort to the
strike in their efforts to secure higher
prices for wheat
The Chicago board of trade was
assailed by President Elmore in open
ing the meeting.
t"The fluctuations in the price of
wheat are not justified by the laws
of demand and the laws of supply and
demand have been smothered by chi
canery. The farmers are out after
the Chicago board of trade and they
are going to get it," he declared.
"Your problem is not so much of
the future as Immediately relief" said
Congressman Webster. UNLESS you
can devise some immediate method of
control, am frank to admit that your
situation is serious. I should be glad
to have solution to remove thoughts
of bankruptcy and mortgages.
eve can not ask for fixed prices,
because the same could be demanded |
by the growers of cattle, wool and
cotton We are in process of read
justment. Prices are going down all
along the line. You may ask for tenn
porary help in marketing this crop,
because it was raised at extraordinary
cost, and then ask for chance in the
open market with your future crops.
Foreign nations" Congressman
Webster declared, 3have formed
trust that is defying the
natural law know of only one way
to offset collective buying and that
is collective selling. If the govern
ment is to stand by and be party
to the perpetration of this fraud up
on it's own citizens, it is up to the
citizens to take the matter into their
own hands.
Don't Strike"
"But whatever you do" declared
Webster, don't resort
TO the strike. It is not in keeping
with modern civilization It is not
fair. Let's meet this situation like
men,"