Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-25
OST-PLUS AIM
OF A. E.
Farmers Society Trying To OBJ
tain Fair Deal By
Organizing

Many people want to know what the
American Society of Equity stands for
and we give the following statements
made by Mr. Konselman, of Barron
county, at the Equity meeting held at
Ingram last Friday evening.
The American Society OF Equity
was organized to give the farmer cost
plus a fair profit. 1t is unfair to the
farmer that he be the only man who
produces goods and has no voice IN
what price they shall bring when sold,
except when he sells to nelghDOr
who is in the same boat Neither is it
fair for the other fellow to set a price
which the farmer has to pay for what
he buys. The farmer should be al
lowed the same privilege to set a falr
price on his produce as the manutac-
turer or anyone else.
This is the day of organization, ana
the day of individualism IS gone.
Schools counties, states and nations
are organized. OF they could not exist.
Farmers must organize .Or they can
no longer exist. Farmers not beng
organized is the reason prices for their
produce is below a living wage, Whlle
the middleman and speculative gamb-
lers are organized to prey upon both
farmer and producer. Supply ana de-
mand are not factors in the game now
as markets are owned and controlled
by middlemen.
If supply and demand were still on
tbp Job n farmer would not have to
sell POO pounds of wool to purchase
suit of clothes or sell his COW macs
for 10 cents per pound and pay 80 70
S15 for shoes, and $2.25 for half soies
and heels on a pair of common work
shoes.
Fifty thousand farmers in Wisconsin
have Joined the Equity to remedy these
evils.
There is a world shortage OF every
thing the farmer produces and the
farms are being depleted in population
while the cities are crowded to the
noint of congestion. 1t is impossible TO
hire a man to work on the farm ana
produce food They don't want TO put
in long hours on the farm at what the
crop would pay when they can go TO
city and work short hours at high
wages.
Farms shold run on basis OF eight
hours per day, and if 16 hours are put
in in one day two days should be pald
for to equalize things with the city
man who sells his products to the far
mer on an eight hour a day basis.
What the farmer has besides the
raise in his land, mother has denied
herself the necessities OF life ana
worked hard without compensation TO
save. besides the fertility of the farm
has been sacrificed.
Controlled marketing is the means
in hand to help the situation. The
farmer loses control Of his crops when
he sells. Only three men in Barron
county got the high price for potatoes
this spring and they sold seed potatoes
and cut down their acreage to do II.
The potatoes were in the hands or
SPECTATORS when the rise came and the
consumers were robbed to fatten the
Golfers of the gambling spectators.
Right now, after milking his COWS
all winter at a loss, the farmer is con-
fronted by a declining price in milk.
One Barron county man declared he
would feed his milk to his hogs ii 1t
declined lower, but when his hogs
were ready for market the prices of
them would probably be forced down.
What could you do today if butter
dropped to 10 cents per pound? Alb
solutely nothing. You are helpless
without organization. 1t is at the
great terminal markets where the
prices are fixed and profits are made
on the farmers products. Farmers