The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-06-02
TIE FARM NEWS
SPECIAL PAGE DEVOTED TO THE FARMING
INTERESTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY
Oh Vital INTEREST NO FARMERs

Or Vital. INTEREST TO, FARMERS
When Wallaces' Farmer advises thu
level headed farmers Of Iowa to "ge
Into this contest between: Senator Cum
MINIS, and BroOkhart and get into i
I hard for Cummins 1t Is Offering sens
ihle advice and necessary urgency. Thu
Z farmers arr, vitality interested, tlleil
interests are either to be considered ant
projected by them or they must TAKE
a. chance.
: The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
went on record as against the strike
and In favor of settlement by boarG
or court which should see that both la
Dor and capital get Justice and a square
deal in deciding controversies on their
: merits and with knowledge of the facts
Cummins Is marked for, slaughter be-
cause he holds the same views; because
4 he ;issagainst the Plumb plan of turning
4 the railroads over to a board composed
IN ma ority of employees, because he is
In favor Of arbitration of disputes in.
stead of industrial warfare and loss to
. owners, employees and incalculable loss
to the public. Only a few; years ago
. compulsory arbitration was the demand
of..tile unions. 1t was a just and reas-
olable demand then. It is quite as just
and reasonable now.
The farmers know or should know
what strike does to the agricultural
interests. Those who owned the 1900
cars of livestock IN shipment when the
recent strike struck Chicago know what
It did to them. e.
Those whose finished stock remained
in it!leir yards know. Wallaces' Farm
era authority for the statement that
q very careful estimate shows that
Iowa steer feeders lost $276,00O in one
week by that strike. 5z
~ How many millions of bushels of
grain lie in the elevators and in cars
on; aidetracks all over Iowa and the
middle west because of the strike and
the car conditions? How badly do we
heed the money for that crop? Ask the
men who seek accommodation at the
hanks
4 Cpmmins has been Just servant Of
tho farmers Of Iowa He has also been
the 1rm and sincere friends of labor
He HAS sought justice for both and
with the understanding Of full knowl
edge of trained mind and experience.
Yet labor turns against him in reprisal
because he disfayors strikes that affect
publiE welfare and calls to the farmers
to assist in the throat cutting by help
inGstO elect a small and inefl icientt man
upon q radical and socialistic platform.
Id Clo &IdElueIS IttSOE4 LIE pidlIOTiA diiu
thes purpose and candidate who per-.
haps cannot carry his own township for
any office in the gift Of the voters?
Farmers generally trust Wallaces'
Fafzner. It is an honest advocate Of
farm interests and farmers. They viii
do well to follow the advice of that
reputable farm journal when. 1t address
es itself directly to them thus:
4 The level headed farmers of Iowa
should get into this contest between
Senator Cummins and Colonel Brook.
hart, and get into it hard. Senator
Cummins stands for law and order, for
justice between employer and cmplOyc.
He stands for arbitrating railroad
strikes before they happen. Colonel
Brookhart stands for the opposite. His
support comes from. those radical labor
legAefs who want no interference with
their efforts to stir up strikes and dis,
Ofg9nize transportation. If Colonel
BrOokhart should be nominated he.
would just stir UP more trouble-and
we have had enough. The word would
Of the Plumb plan. That would reop.
en-. the whole question, and there is no
telling when we would get back to nor
mai conditions. We dare not take such
a. chance. .sb "A
~, This is busy time on the farm, but
the u Iowa farmer can afford to spend
just as much time as may be neces--
sary to see his neighbOrs and make.
sure that they understand the real is
sues in this contest. And he can at.
ford to spend all day June 7th in getting
out the farm vote. -Marshalltown
Times Republican.
Iowans will pay $S,495,235.92 in city,
county and state taxes of all kinds this
year on the 1919 levy. This will be:
$l4,913,07O.32 more than was collected
for state taxes of all kinds in 1919 on.
the.191S levy. The taxes to be collect
ed this year for the 1919 levy are near
" three times as heavy as the 1910 col.
this year is Sal, 535, 907.85 in excess Of
the 1910 figures. The taxable value of
property for the. year 1919, and on
which collections this year are based,
war as follows: Tax value of land, $685.
S99,s13; taxable value of forests and
fruit trees, SlO,26O; town lots, $191. 813,-
86S: personal property, $l52,675 1913; ex
press, 1912 1892; telephone, telegraph
and transmission lines, s5,SS2,673; rail
road, including interurban and sleeping
carr $81 .545,4S9; net taxable value of
all property except moneys and cred
its,i 81 ,OS9, 14O, 1T: actual value moneys
and credits, i$46s,277,7 95. The general
state, tax for 1918 stands at $780,,
O95.47. The district school tax, the big
Item for 1919 stands at $3l,317, SO. 4
This general county tax for 1919 stands
at g37 ,213,927.27. and in 1918 it was a
little over $6,000,OO0.
s. III s53 eG-tFJ- ~,
Forty three head of native spring.
lambs were sold in Omaha last week
by the Hannah farm near Council
Bluffs at $500. They averaged sixty.
A load of hogs sold by o.
e. Davis, Of Red Oak. the same day at
1895. Tom Clausen. Of Atlantic. sold
twenty head of yearling steers, averag. |
Ing IA pounds, at $3.50.
{ III
= Peter Hallowell, of Paradise town.
shils was a. caller at the Review Office
on Saturday morning, and advanced his
to the extent of $500
Worth. Mr.. Hallowell has long been a |
Valued reader of this paper.