The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-28
Beets, Politics and Progress
By Byrd Trego
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER VIII.

me out. He replied that no obliga-
ton existed, since | had paid the
rental for the use of the money.
never had liked Mr.. Bergman very
we'll before that-men had told me
that he was hard-shelled and always
ready to say, NO" to every PROPOSE
ton, and when he made that per-
fectly fair remark to me, he started
a vein of friendship that has grown
stronger for a third of century.
Back to Aberdeen
But to get back to the Aberdeen
proposition, if the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company is handing the bank some
money to be loaned out to the farm
ers to tide them over their difficult
ties, and the farmers want to sign
agreements to buy capital stock in
a sugar factory that is competitor
of the one that loans them the pres
ent money, and they pay off the
present obligations first and the
others afterwards, you ought to de-
eide for yourself whether it is a
fair deal or not. That makes it
necessary for you to put yourself in
the place Of the bank and the sugar
company and the farmer, by turns,
and look at it from the angle and
the interest of all of them. After
you have done that, then decide on
another point in the case namely:
If the farmer should sign to buy
stock and the bank should immedi-
| ately call for settlement of the
obligations now existing, without
waiting for him to harvest his crop
and get the money-then of course
it would be easy to decide whether
the bank was wrong or not. But
don't know that they have done
that. Some of the farmers may
know, but they have not come in
and told me. | would consider it
bad news if they did. 1t would hurt
my feelings to know for sure that
it was true. l would much rather
have some farmer who is very poor,
come in and assure me that he had
talked it over with his banker at
Aberdeen and expressed the wish to
buy share or two of stock in the
Independent sugar company. wish
that such a man, a poor but am
bilious man with some children,
would tell me that he was in debt to
the bank and at the stores, and that
they told him they hoped he could
get little stock in any sugar COM
pany he wanted it in. 1 wish he
would tell me that the banker said
to him something like this: Eyes,
Mr.. Blank, that is a good thing to
do. There is no reason why you
and your children should not get
your debts paid off and get some
thing ahead in a rich country like
this. We will do our part just as
we agreed to, and if there is any
thing we can do to help you get
into better circumstances we will
be glad to do it. If you want to
sign up for some sugar stock now,
we will carry your other obligations
Just as we agreed to, and We shall
feel a closer interest in you because
you are trying to get the sugar stock.
We like your grit, and we want to
see you win. In fact, we will 60
little farther in carrying risks
with you if you are trying to become
ne uN01 ct
than we would if you lacked the Gee
You Tee Ess to try"
A Short Story
A few years ago an old gentleman
and his wife took up dry farm in
the Aberdeen country, and after
three years of pretty good seasons
they had not raised any crops. /
came along in my search for "every
settler on the tract" and looked over
the situation carefully and decided
that his land was no good. 1t was
all under laid with lava, and the
soil was so shallow that it dried out
in June and the crops withered. In
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married daughter, a beautiful girl |
with several little children, came |
home to live with them because her
husband was no good. The girl
acted as interpreter while / talked |
with the old gentleman about how
he was to make a living for those
three generations on that plateau of |
lava with little soil spread over it.
! hesitated long time about ad-
vising him to leave it, and when |
limited to him that the soil was not |
so good as in lots of other land that
was still lying open to settlement,
asked him what e thought he had
better do now that he had failed
to make crops, and to my surprise
he said, II will stay and work just
that much harder"
If that man had located on a good
farm that he could irrigate, he would
succeed in the face of almost any
hing that came along. And if a
wild cat stock-jobbing scheme was
offered for sale to him, he would
invest in it just as readily as he
would in one that was all right.
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