The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-06-25
QUESTIONS WIS
DOM OF The
FARMERS

C"l returned from south IN Idaho
IA northern Utah and ilsC oyer thclc
Is bunch of fellows COINS through
t. untry organi-,ns the farmers
III" a whert poi. According ~ the
plan they propose to rescue the farm
ers from that grea, octopus the chi,
cago Board and set the prices o
wheat TO suit themselves. These men
are the same fellows that went
through the states of Oregon. Wash.
inEton. Montana and northwestern
Idaho last summer with their wheat
pooling and other schemes and also
agitatod the farmers in Kansas an
right now are putting over a cam.
paiEn Of organization in the middl,
west, They style themselves the L.
:. Grain Growers association. exclud.
ing from the organization everybody
that is not growing grain and sell on
ly for legitimate purposes. Its pur-
pose is to market the farmers crops
and stabilize the markets by helping
producers to hold their crops when
the markets are unfavorable and mar
ket them when conditions are right.
The plan looks good and ii il fail.
il will be because of lack of prope:
cooperation among the farmers and
inefficient management. No organiza-
tion will run itself and no organiza-
ton can succeed without efficient ana
honest management. The last few
years we have seen farm organiza-
tons start sui in our own beautiful
Utah and neighboring counties of Ida
no with what seemed TO be the
, brightest prospect and most of them,
II nos all, are Just gasping for life.
The principal trouble is there wa
no true and loyal cooperation among
the farmers and no efficient manage
ment So far as our own people who
started it were concerned, they were
probably acting entirely in good faith
but the causes for apparent failure
are plainly seen.
will point out the result OF last
years experience in the states where
the farmers pooled The manipulation
got $l4 from each grower and agreed
not to sell their wheat for less than
81. DO yea know il cost those farm-
ers not only entrance fee, but from 81
to $3.50 pr bushcl on their wheat
a. thetime the gamblers (as they arc
callcdD were paying $3.50. TIL,
bunch said $3.50 was not enough
pool it; hold it, and force the market
Iup!
Many ia mcrs in the locality where
the u,ganization was effected nflu
encod farmers all over the L. $. to
hold and that same wheat is wort
% cents to 81 and our farmers suf.
fer a tremendous loss, costing them
more money than all the Board OF
Trade would in 100 years.
! am not opposed TO cooperation &
principle. Whore there is unity
there is strength, but IL takes much
more than simply saying hold youi
wheat, pool it," to create a better
price. 1t can only be accomplished
by the spirit of live and let live an"
loyalty OF corpOrated members, hon
esty and competent management. The
dominating characters managing last
years national organizers abused
American bankers for urging farmers
TO sell their wheat at loss, when in
fact the bankers were doing the far
mers a favor for they knew the bunch
could not cGnuol tho price Of wheat
This year the gentlemen who are or
ganiz,ng our southern Idaho and ouI
northern Utah farmers charge an in
itlaI membership fee Of SO and ash
them to sign a bill Of sale for all tn,
wheat they grow excepting enough
for seed and his own feed purposes
for six Years, as much as to say Mr.
Farmer, you are ali right to rais'
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