The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-21
.oteware Points Out
Menace to Nevadans


will be interesting in this connection: /:
"A warning against sudden slump
in livestock and grain prices was Is
| sued today byN the farmers grain
marketing committee of seventeen ap-
pointed by the American Farm Bu-
reau Association, which closed three
days conference here, called to dis
cuss cooperative marketing. Farm
ers, who, contrary to popular opin-
ion, failed to make money during the
war period, are tired of producing
grain at a loss, the statement says,
and may retaliate by curtailing pro-
duction.
Country elevators, now filled with
grain (produced at high costs) and
for which it is impossible to obtain
cars to get them to market, are
threatened with extinction should
prices be driven any lower, accord
ing to the statement"
Physicians get together and es-
tablish fee bills; lawyers do the same
Banks raise and lower as they please,
their interest and discount rates. The
manufacturer has his association in
which he establishes wholesale prices
of his products. Railroads fix trans
portation charges. The retailer has
his cooperative associations. The
banker, manufacturer and merchant
complain that the farmer does not
pay enough tax, ignoring the fact that
they, the banker, manufacturer or
merchant have already made the far
mer pay the income and other tax for
each of them and then profit on it in
the increased profit they tax. The
packer has increased his profits from
fifteen per cent in 1914 to thirty-six
per cent in 1916-191S, and only God
and the Meat Trust can tell what it
! is now.
| The farmer has not gone on strike
and does not demand a Shylock' g
share. but the time has passed when
he will be content with the present
system of affairs in which the value
of the production of his labor shall
be determined by other people while
he. himself, is compelled to take the
price as fixed by others. He has
awakened to the fact that every other
group, Industrial, financial or com
mercial, is organized to fight; that
T, though they fight each other, in the
end the farmer is the victim of all
battles.
| This is a time for sober thought
and rational reasoning. The public
conscience must be quickened. We
must demand the most critical
scrutiny of every proposed expendi-
! ture of public funds and this must
apply to the curtailment of all ex-
penditures by cities, counties, and the
state on public works and improve
ments of every kind, unless absolutely
indispensable to the progress and the
welfare of the state as a whole.
1t is time that we should take
stock and statewide inventory of
our taxable wealth; determine our
assets; to anticipate in a business
like manner our future as to finances I;
inaugurate a policy of reform a
policy of economy! return to safe,
| Sduc anu WolhcUlc pllutlplSS, d COu-
structive policy in the conduct and
administration of government that
must attract and receive the approval
of all classes. We must remember
the power to do a thing right, i'm
plies also the power to do it wrong
that if legislatures have made mis-
takes in the past so will they make
mistakes in the future. We must
elect men to the legislative and ex-
ecutive offices who will pass judg-
ment upon cases; not judgment upon
parties-men who have studied and
are in touch with these problems
and who bring to the consideration
| of public finances ripper judgment
wider experience and a better
knowledge than politicians out of a
job. demagogues or others merely
seeking salary.
Vote for principles and men-not
4 for hot air artists or party labels.
/ The question of the hour is not
whether we stay dry or go back
wet, nor for that matter the League
of Nations" but our increasing taxa
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