Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-26
PERAT|ON Of
COUNTRY NEEDED
WILDER ASSERTS
No Amount of Work or Talk
at Washington Can Solve
the Situation; Must All Do
Our Full Share.
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/ Chicago, Dec. 25.-Today the
farmer receives only IA cents for
the calf hide which enters in $12
pair of shoes, and the skilled work.
man gets $l.60 for making them,
so that the cost in reaching the
consumer is over $40.
A big strong man cannot pack
enough steer hides into a shoe
shop today to pay for one pair of
shoes.
An ordinary bag of wool weighs
zoo pounds and one man cannot
handle it. II he could the entire
lot would not buy a suit of tailored
clothes weighing three and a half
pounds.
1t takes four bushels of my corn
at present country prices to half
sole my shoes, and half a wagon
load to pay my hotel bill here for
two days.
Thousands of bushels of apples
are rotting in Ohio orchards this
minute, while apples are sold at o
cents apiece by your Chicago fruit
vendors.
Dark Virginia tobacco of a good
grade is down as low as a cent a
pound, as testified before the sem
ate agricultural committee.
Two thousand sheep sold recent
ly in a Chicago stockyard and
Melted the shipper only "a cents
head.
A furniture salesman told re-
Gently of two trips he made from
Toledo to Detroit. In May, taking
two days to do it. he booked $780,
900 in orders; in November his
business over the same route |
amounted to just sears.
Hay Can't Be Marketed.
The average farmer in America |
has not made as much this entire |
has in one day.
Idaho hay, along the lines of the
Union Pacific. can't be marketed
because the freight rate is almost
equal to the selling price in Omaha,
the cost of baling and haul
ing to the selling price the cost has
exceeded the value of the hay at
Missouri river markets The hay
stays in Idaho while the railroad
hauls empty cars past those
and loses all revenue.
Thus George NJ, WILDER, Marys-
Vile. o., farmer, who may be call
ed into the next United States cab
net as secretary of agriculture,
pictured rural conditions to Chicago
business men in an address deliv-
cred at the Association Of Com
nerce luncheon at Hotel La Sale.
His Subject was Country Econ
)my VS.. City Extravaganza.
Declaring that spending orgies of
,ity people are bound to cease. as
llready is the case in the country, 1
Ir. WILDER insisted that he can see !
lealth coming back to business. ,
lie said that its return will be
by general adoption of a ,
policy, practice of ;
economy to the same degree as |
peforc the war and the turning of :
money to the succor of legitimate I
Record Crop Yields. I
Fundamental conditions are y
ound." he asserted. Government I
rop reports scarcely week old \
ell of yields approximating rec '
'rds in almost every line. The f
urest argument for bright future
8 the prevailing sense of confine- ,
nent among all classes.
What we must remember is
hat no amount of work or talk at
where recently elected
fficials will take charge soon, can
olive the situation unless you and
do our full share. If we produce d,
lore, sell at a narrower margin,
ecogniZe that certain losses are in v
and therefore the sooner '
cccpted the sooner ended, by the
Ime the Violets bloom in the q
prng, you will be back in the
wing of commercial activity and =,
aasonable earnings which Will .
rake the next few years ones of .
appiness and success for all.
"To the extent that middle !.
nan performs a necessary service a
e is an aid to business. When ne =
pes not add to the value of the l.,
he handles or the con y
enience by which he reaches the .
lnsumer, he becomes a liability,
hen he should he eliminated. u
Retail business men were adj II
Ionished that some of them are d
ltirely wrong in calculations that
ley will be able to go on at
rofit or at least without loss.
labor. too, must swing into line,
void usless expenditure and be
illing to work for wages that
nployers can afford to pay add
Mr.. WILDER.