The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-14

A public utility corporation. when IL find, i,s
Investments unprofitablc, due TO any Cau>o %,
cnu'~~ whatever, asks and receives permission h
from the state to inCrcaSc its charges ihe
ratronising public. The farmer literally .iI. B
III swats and goes broke by degrees
There may be sound economic reason why
a telephone company, for instance, possess
ing in the very first instance the tremeniausG
advantage OF being relieved OF all compotfiY7
should be permitted to Increase its charges 10 Z
that point where, regardless OF it's investment It
receives earning Of per cent over aIl 4
charges, interest administrative, etc, aud fh,
agriCulturist who takes the widest cIaUre
Imaginable every time he plants crop. depcrd,
on the whim of nature for success and fehs
n world in arms against him for price sufti.
cient 70 enable him to discharge his incurred
seeking a thread OF justice, is not able TO dis.
such reason.
The telephone investment is not primarily a
necessity. The farm investment is an impera; We
necessity Yet the one is accorded favor over
the other.
This injustice must be romcdied
Some War Injusticcs.
During the war happily drawing to clo~
but not yet ended, every other class OF citizen.
ship received favors at the hand of government
The farm paid the bills And that Is literally
true. No greater injustice was ever inflicted
on citizens in the name Of just government than
was inflicted on the producing classes of Amer
lea by the government agencies.
I very much doubt IL as a class the farmer,
realize TO what extent they were made the goat
I am inclined TO believe that IL they did they
would exact awful reprisal. And, as one u
tho consuming and non productive class at this
time. it they should do so, would for time a,
least sit in my cold castle, chew the leather IN
nay shoes, long for the return of the days when
1t was possible to eat real food. and cheer their
spunk.
When America entered the and the gov
ernment entered the comparative markets as
favored purchaser. prices skyrocketed over
night The steel people were taken care OF by
government edict ana a crop of new millonalres
resulted. The copper people were taken
of in like manner ana with like results SO also
the lumber folk the coal operators the manu-
featuring interests of every KIND. we inst
have war profits" they all shouted. And Her
bert Hoover ana the other dollar -a-year men
bless their patriotic souls! replied. '"ro be sure
| to be sure" And it was so entered
But when it came to the things that sustain
! life-the basic industry of all; the one industry
! on which all nations depended there was no
| counsel at the bar. No dollar -a-year men were
at hand. on the contrary everybody was tre-
! meudously distressed at the awful injustice 10
/ our laboring classes the rapidly increasing din
! ner table imposed
| So something was done about IT, In the open
| market under the compulsion OF the law OF
| supply and demand, wheat, that staff OF human
/ existence, soaring above 50 IA bushel. Mr.
| Hoover and his friends got together and decided
that while a 800 per cent increase in copper and
steel and was all right for those interested
in such things, 100 per cent increase in wheat
was too much for the farmers.
So the price cut to approximately 81 8
| hushel There were elaborate rules governing
mills, bakers and vendors OF foodstuffs But
! the only rule that stuck that 81 per against
the farmer. The bakers enjoyed the widest
| prosperity. Likewise the mills. while the food
| stuff vendors committed crimes against both
| government and the farmers who were attempt
| ing TO grow hogs and help feed the world, that
| should have sent some to the penitentiary for
the remainder of their lives; and would have
done so had justice remained the Job and
! functioned. But justice took a vacation soon
after the war organization began to function in
| and about the national capital.
Now II that is treason shoot quick, for there Is
| more to come
Roth Meat and Bread.
The farmers were forced to pay the dividends
,f lot fart fria 40 aafth tha MAR gr
/ Eani2ation. They were not interested in the
! production Of something that would kill Ger
mans Their products were designed to keep
the friendly armies alive and up to the fighting
standard. Therefore they were imposed upon.
NO millionaire farmers grew out OF the war
Nor stock raisers, either. Yet, relative impor-
lance is TO be considered, as many such should
have come from this industry as any other.
The injustice heaped upon the farmer in tho
wheat matter by the doar-a-year boys should
have satisfied them. But IT didn't The powers
that be at the national capal Just at that pre-
else time were curryng favor with the bosses
of labor Mr. Gompers did not and does rot
care n fig for labor unless it is labor that rec6g
His boys were dissatisfied with the ruling prices
on pork chops. The packing industry was not
market under the law of supply and demand
was rising higher and higher. The farmers hat
been urged by ono branch OF the governmen
10 raise hogs and cows and thus have ready
sufficient quality of red meat for the warrior
But the labor leaders complained that th'
price Of meat going too high. And beinl
on the ground they made Il uncomfortable fo
the swivel-cha patriots. Take over the pack
ers. they are the culprits" shrieked these labor
. leaders Meat prices must come down"
Come get US" replied the packers who haC
. seen the profits OF the coal barons and all othe
/ barons increase shortly after the government ha'
I taken them under its wing. Come get us;
Just dying to be took over.'
But the Hoover organization afraid o
the packers. They were entirely too willing
I But there stood the poor, lonely farmer will
/ his pen fun of hogs to which he feeding
corn in preparation for profitable market
Justice having long before fled her throne Their
was nobody to look after him. He unrep
| resented At court. lie ripe for the slaughter
And he was again slaughtered
So tho board" said. "In order that the farm
crs may know that they safely produce hog
for the market the government viii fix a min
mum price Of $3.50 below which II guarantee
the price OF hogs will not Decline before sue
and such date"
The crime committed And the seeminl
was that II was done for tn. best interest 0
the farmer' SO the price of nork on the hoo
which was sailing around the $50 mark decline
swiftly ana steadily to the neigh orhood Of n
minimum fixed by Just government" A
there II remained. once again the economic lHg
that a minimum price operates in praCt. .
precisely as "A maNimum--stOod Vindica ed
So the farmers with their pens filled with CH
nd hn no ...r1