Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-12-22


valued by the department Of agricul
ture, at the present time, at $e.148,519:
900. The same crops were valued last
year at $14.o87. 100000. While the
crops raised this year are consider
ably larger than those OF last year
the aggregate value is thus nearly
i've billions less.
year was 351,062, 400, as compared
with 356,162,112 last year.
The wheat harvest is estimated at
789,178000 bushels, as compared with
9s4,265,000 bushels in 1919.
The corn crop is reported to amount
to 374,000,00O bushels more than last
year and yet is worth over one and
half billions less
Final estimates Of crop production
and value this year include:
Corn, s,232,367 900 bushels; $780,
121,0oo
Winter wheat, 5S0,513,00O; $s66,74l,,
900.
Spring wheat, 2O9, 1865 900: $273, 1885,,
900.
OdtS, &,oLt,U00,UUV, PdA0, iDA,VVV.
Barley, 202,023,0o0; $142,931, 900.
Rye, 69,318,oo0; $sS,6o9,ooo.
Flaxseed, 1O,99O,0OO; $19,413,OOO
Potatoes, 43O,458,OO0, $500,974, 900
The plain facts 90 not speak we'll
for the host of prophets who were tell
ing the farmers eight months ago that
the only thing needed by them was
more production.
The press, which was making this
prophecy then, is now peddling tales
of oversupply to get the farmers to
sell now. The latest trick to get the
farmers in and keep the market low is
to make the REASONABLE" demand tn IT
they market part of the crop
SENATE FAVoRs CREDIT MOVE
A bill for restoring the War Finance
corporation to relieve the credit needs
of farmers has passed the senate
Senator Lodge prevented ccnsidera-
ton of the bill at the opening CT the
second session, but Northwest sena
tors hustled to get it out in regular
order as soon as possible
The passing of the bill was some
thing of a surprise to observers here,
but the explanation is not hard to find,
Politicians from Nonpartisan League
states realize that the hard credit
conditions were turning the attention
of the farmers more than ever before
to the remedies proposed by the Non
partisan league. And as the pol IT,
clans say in such emergencies. "some-
thing had to be done," so the senate
passed this bill with a great flourish
of sentiment for the farmers.
They realized that the War Finance
corporation could be prevented from
doing so much as to hurt their bank
ing and market-gambling friends. The
folks back home will doubtless receive
canned speeches inspired by the occa-
sion which the senators themselves
did not have the patience to listen to.
THE GILBERT DECISION
The federal supreme court, by a di.
vided vote, has upheld the constitu.
tionality of the statute under which
| Joseph Gilbert was convicted in a
| Goodhue county (Minn.) court during
! the war. Chief Justice White and Jus.
tice Brandeis were strongly opposed
to the majority opinion.
The supreme court, Of course, did
not go into the facts of the case but
| regarded as proved the testimony &C
! copied by the Goodhue county court
1t did not consider that the testi
mony might have been influenced by
kidnapping of material witnesses
threats of violence and the general
war hysteria Consequently, the con
stitutionality of the Minnesota statute
is the important thing in the decision
1t affirms that states have a right
to set up standards Of loyalty to the
federal government, and of attitude t.
ward international relations. Chief
Justice White, on the other hand, helC
that tine Minnesota statute was an un
warranted encroachment on fedora
| authority and saw no need of zeal or
the part of state courts and officials tt
punish offenses that are already pun
ishable under federal law. Justice
Brandeis has consistently dissenteC
from this as well as previous step:
taken by the court in affirming limi
tations to the constitutional guaran
tees of free speech and free assem-
blage. He points out that under thu
statute by which Gilbert was convict
ed man can be sent to prison In time
Of peace for teaching his children tina
war is wrong.
AS things now stand citizen can b.
guilty of-disloyalty in Minnesota an.
not guilty in Illinois or Michigan
There can be as many variations o
loyalty and disloyalty as there ar
states in the Union. The gate is wild,
open for state politicians to use pa
triotism for political purposes.
The supreme court has, therefore
made a decision of tremendous impol
tance
7 Dlsc,PLlNlNG SMALL eUsI.
Testimony on the alleged BUILDING
trust of New York City, being take1
by a joint legislative committee, ha
brought out, some interesting fact
Perhaps the most important Of thes
bears on the methods used by tn