Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-01-14
LOCAL men AT BIG
FARM MEETING.
VIM. Headington and County Agent
Watrud Attended the Meeting
OF the Iowa Farm Bureau
H< Federation i'm Des
L. MOines.
REPoRay II MEETING
Nn AIENsE CROWD
Land, Livestock, lery, Build
ings, Etc. Owned> Delegates
Present ApprOximated
2S,OOO,O0O.

VIM. Headington, Winneshiel
county's Farm Bureau treasurer an(
official delegate in company witt
County Agent Watrud attended the
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation meet.
ing at Des Moines last week and they
report a great meeting. The Ameri.
can Society OF Equity was represent
ed by State President II. l.. Bisson-
nette, who gave a talk on the work
of his society and of the needs of tho
close cooperation between il and the
farm bureau. The Des Moines Regis
ter gives the following particulars
OF the meeting:
Declaring their economic :nGe-
pendence, 1900 farmer delegates to
the Iowa Farm Bureau federation
met in the Des Moines Auditorium
last Tuesday and Wednesday and fur
ther announced tha. false market
standards, high prices and profit
teering must go into the discard.
The delegates came from every orc
of the ninty-nine cou,..;e4 in Iowa
and vol iced the demands of exactly
10000 members cf ihei.' fedora
ton.
IF capltalistic monopoly wants
enough food produced tha. II may
be feasted; II organized labor wants
enough food that = may he fed. if
the do-nothings dawdler want food
produced so he ri1y eat. let thcin
all stand forth at ihis time wneh
the farmer must detirmias lii; 1870
food production pr rasiam--snd de-
clare by deeds cutting out OF prof.
teering in goods All wages, by going
honestly to business; by going lion
estly to the job Of doing u full days
work for full.uay's pay their viii
lingness to cooperate with us. tine
Producers"
This declaration by J. w. C5er-
dale, secretary of the iowa fedora
tion and also tempary secretary of
the national federltion. Brought an
outburst of applause from the dele
gates in the auditorium
Mr.. Coverdal,, wao was and IS
still a practical farmer, was backed
in his stand by -. T. Howard Of
Clemons, president of both state
and national organization.
THE department of agriculture
has been asleep on the job" said
Mr.. Howard. After working for a
year and half gathering statistics
seeking to place the cost of farm
production, there are no figures
available. We must look to our own
organization to obtain production
figures, and demand fair profit up
on every pound of livestock or pro-
duce we bring to market.
THE cotton growers of the south
have expended 5000, 900, 900 in per-
fecting a market of their own. WHY
may We not some day do as much
for ourselves? 1t is appalling Of
course to think that We might some
day operate the stockyards of Chi
cago and Kansas City, but unless
markets are stabilized such thing
might come to pass. There must be =
closer relationship established be-
tween the farmer and the buyer OF
his products. To US remains the task
of bringing the market down to nor
NAL"
C. j. Fawcett, who has charge of
marketing wool grown by the $500
members of the Fleece Growers as
sociation, came into the verbal fray
with bitter attack upon the specu-
lator and gambler in necessities OF
life.
THE wool speculator is largely
responsible for high prices of wool, :"
said Mr.. Fawcett. "They have even
gone so far as to try to discredit the
WOOL growers association ana hurt
our market.
"There is in your suit OF clothes.
wool for which the producer re-
ceived approximately 81. Does this
make that suit worth $50 on the
market? Who is responsible for the
in this instance? Not the
wool grower. for but little of the $4
he received represents net profit.
Who got the balance? How much did
the speculator get?"
!. That the farmers are sincere in
their effort to bring prices down to
normal. and reduce the cost of liv-
ing, was evidenced by p. e. Cum