Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-10-21
natl LEGISLATION
IS NECESSARY TO
PROTECT GROWERS
Decline in Price Of Wheat and
Other Food Products
Shows How Remedie. Of
.fered by Nonpartisans
Have Failed to Help Farm
ers.

Farm organizations OF the entire
country were represented at a meet
ing held in Washington last week,
and committees from this meeting
appealed to the federal reserve
banks, not to withdraw credits from
other banks, in farm communities,
and to give farmers an opportunity
to carry their grain and cotton un-
til they can be sold at profitable
price.
The same committees have ap-
pealed to the president to put an
embargo on Canadian wheat now
being dumped into this country to
break down the American price.
and even have asked that an embar-
go be placed on further exports of
American wheat abroad.
They asked this for the reason
that before another harvest this
country will be one hundred million
busels short of the normal supply
of wheat, and If farmers are forced
to sell now at a loss, in the cost of
producing wheat, it will curtail
food production next year.. and
make a tremendous increase in the
cost Of farm products for the entire
country. They show that there is
no justification, as far as supply
and demand goes, for the. drop in
wheat prices.
Governor Allen of Kansas has
been asked by, president Wilson to
furnish him information, which in
dicate manipulation on the Chicago
and New York Boards of trade,
whereby the price of wheat has been
SO much reduced. The governor ap-
pealed to the president to protect
the wheat growers and food pro-
ducers of the country from the
great market fluctuations. and the
president appears to be attentive to
get information, which might be
had without delay.
1t is believed that the raid on
food prices will not long continue
and that federal legislation will be
enacted to laws that will protect the
American food producers, as we'll
as the grower of wool and cotton.
Every seller of wheat on boards
Of trade, for future delivery should
be required to "deliver the goods.
This will stop the Offering for sale,
millions of bushels of wheat that do
not exist and never will exist.
R0nttctAnS :Fe0 ~. chance =
In North Dakota League politi-
clans who have failed to protect the
farmer, but have collected millions
of dollars to run our state on the
bunko plan of promising stability
in grain prices; and solving the
farmers marketing problem are
busy. In the first real test the
league failed to do anything for the
farmer himself. They advised farm
ers to hold their grain and promis-
ed that the millions of dollars TAX
en- into the bank of North Dakota
could be made Of use in loaning to
farmers to carry their crops.
How little the league program
can help farmers in a real emer-
gency is now seen. The state mill
about which SO much was promised,
is costing more than private mills
to operate, and has done nothing.
The independent candidates are not
to blame for the national conditions
that have resulted in the decline of
wheat.
The fact is that some other help
besides the Nonpartisan League in
North Dakota will be necessary to
protect our farmers in the prices of
their products, and this national
legislation has q first class prospect
Of becoming laws, owing to the very
conditions that have arisen In the
last three weeks.