The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
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Just at present the farmers OF Wisconsin
North and South Dakota Minnesota, Mon
tana. Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. are la
menting the drop In the retail markets.
Well" said a reporter for THE NEW York
HERALD to Minnesota farmer didn't you
expect the market to drop sooner or later
Haven't you made more money in the last
three years than you did In the five six
preceding them? You can't expect the war
time prices to hold forever can you?"
You Fasteners talk foolish as soon as
you get west of Chicago was his reply.
you are consumers; we're the producers.
SO long as the East knuckles down to every
labor agitator who comes along and gives
in to his demands because you fear a strike,
we producers of food have to boost labor
prices out here, and the result is that we
have to boost costs OF our products. Then
you howl about the cost OF food and there's
an unnatural drop in the market due to ar
bitrary price cutting We have to stand it
because 1t costs us no less to produce food
despite the fact that we get less for 1t.
Even the Non-Partisan League pro-
gramme does us no good We have state grain
elevators and abattoirs. but that merely
assures us of square deal on the scales
and In the measures. We can't hold back
get together and decide to raise less wheat,
corn, pork, beef and so on. But that doesn't
solve the problem. The present market drop
is unnatural; it isn't the result Of coopera-
ton. The more money we made the more
we invested In our lands. What we need is
sound economist at the head Of the gov
eminent"
Il guess you've noticed the general apathy
concerning the national political fight out
here, hey said a Colorado ranchman who
raises sugar beets. well, we don't give a
hang about the tariff or the League Of
Nations / attended a Farmers Alliance
meeting last week and a man from North
Dakota got to talking about the League of
Nations. He had 1t right. The European
war meant a lot to you Eastern folks. You
are pretty close to Europe, there in New
York But the farmer out in the West
and up In the Northwest doesn't see through
your eyes. Principally, We farmers came
from Sweden, Norway. Denmark, Germany
and the other northern European countries.
Many Of us are removed from Europe by
only one or two generations.
THE Germans, for instance. aren't op-
posed to the League of Nations because Eng
land or any other European country may
have the best of the deal. We came from
Europe because we could get better, freer
deal here In America. We wanted to get
away from the crooked taxation, the domi-
nation of royalists, and so on. Well, we
want nothing to do with any league or treaty
that will make America party to the rotten
politics of Europe. Get that straight. We're
for league that will make war impossible.
We came away from Europe to get away
from certain war. We don't care so much
about Senator Harding out this way. We
don't know anything about the man. Cox
has been through and he offers us the