The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-11
MONDAY. OCTOBER II, 1920.
The American Farmer Demands a
Square Days Work for
Square Days Pay.

square pays ray
The news columns have related and
this newspaper has discussed the
downward slide of crop prices with
$4,000, 100000 OF price recently
wrenched out Of the market quota
lions Of the three staples. wheat, corn
and cotton. From a hard headed
American farmer expressing himself
simply but manfully on the subject
we print elsewhere on This page let
ter both brimming with sound eco
nonlic sense and presaglng the In
evitable fruits Of the supreme laws
Of nature.
This hard headed American farmer
delivers the plain warning that the
producers Of the nations food and
other necessaries of life are not
going to toll into bankruptcy while
Government mismanarement sqIan-
dars billions of dollars and while
siackers and MASTERS organized TO get
high wages but not TO earn them
strip chose who dig our national
wealth out OF the soil.
This hard headed American farmer
sets forth the bald truth of the re-
sponsibllty OF Government ineiiiciency
and extravaganza for large pat of
the high cost of living. And he de-
clares that grossly overpaid but de-
liberately non-earnine workers now
have the choice Of fitting their wage
scales TO the readjusted economic con
ditions or Of losing their jobs.
II Is q cold fact, as the hard headed
American farmer says. that it is van
ton and ruinous destruction OF M
tnre's supplies intended for the nour
ishment and comfort of mankind wben
a Government filings away its opulence
like q drunken sailor. The national
Government has been taking billions
Of dollars OF the public's money.
which is the publlc's bread and meat,
the publlc's shelter and raiment, the
public's necessaries and "omfort--the
national Government still takes II and
makes an economic bOLflre Of IL. State
governments ana municipal govern
ments take billions more of the )ub-
lies money and make other bonfires
of It.
"a. And Ii Is cold fact, as the hard
headed American farmer says, tina;
while the producer back on the land
has been laboring hard and long hours
to provide the nations food and raj
ment. organized individuals, organized
to 90. bigger and bigger share OF
the production but to do less and less
work for Il, have been raidlng his
granary. The hard headed American
farmer says this unfair division. is
going to stop.
The hard headed Al erlcan farmer
offers no objection to lower prices for
his hard earned product II other
prices are similarly adjusted. liz
knows from his own war price expert
ence that no matter what dollar N .rks
are on his wheat he Is better of
when three bushels Of It will exchange
into pair Of shoes than when two
bushels OF II will exchange into only
one shoe. He knows from his own wal
price experience that 100 bushels OF
corn exchanged into n set of harness
make wiser bargain than $50 bush
oils Of corn exchanged into set OF
harness. He knows from his Jwr
war price experience that he is thC
goat. as he puts 81, when a big bin
full Of grain II the equivalent Of ;
little tinkering by a plumber who has
bis tools carried for him by an ap
prentlcc whom the farmer pays {,
learn his trade.
The hard headed American farme
who has been getting for his work an,
his yield more dollars. hut City cen
dollars instead OF fewer one hundre'
cent dollars. is perfectly content t
20 back 90 getting half ms many soun
dollars for his work and his yields
But he does not propose to go back &
pre-vnr prices for his crops and the
take plugged nlckels as well for hi
honest wheat and corn.
~ this hard headed American
FARMER. as all hard headed America
farmers viii do, sends his messnse [
Mr.. SAM GoMPERs or 20 any orhe
labor union politician who rants Mn
threatens that oil commodity price
must come down but that the initiate
wage shall not.
II will come down. as the har
headed American farmer says. becnus
when there Is now $4,000 of labor COS
alone In what used 10 he 5000
house rents cannot come down unit
those inflated labor costs come dowI