American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1921-08-12

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Something Must Be Done.
The American Farm Bureau in their
work with congress gets in right. be-
cause they haven't gone down there
with the thought of telling congress
what there is to do. They say. TO con-
gress,w we will give you all the informa-
ton we can get. We are not demand
ing certain things, but this will be a
clearing house for information IN ag-
riculture. So we are In good, on that
very score.
Now when we face conditions like
we have been talking about, you can
see that something mustebe done. When
we discover that the average profit
Of exporters is zoe to 35c a bushel.
don't you think 1t is time that we did
something about marketing our grain?
With the special opposition we will
have to contend with, this sales con-
tract may become a strong part. This
is what moved the convention to adopt
the optional plan for the start and try
1t. ! believe In the pooling principle,
and l was not afraid Of the constitu-
tionally OF 1t. We could lay before the
courts the record Of North Dakota on
the cost OF production, Oregon, and, |
nope Lut ItCDIh vi ludHDt Ou Niihl ~
costs 10 produce wheat. This is our
second year to keep record o fthe
charges for oats, barley, flax, truck
etc. When you come before the coun-
try with the proposition that you sim
ply want to survive on the sale-that
all you want Is a living wage-do you
suppose there Is any court in America
that will turn down a bunch of men
uuhn r. utpnpIV aalinV for "a aHnal1 pnr-
ner Of Justice? We ran show that we
are not violating any industries law.
but coming before the people Of Amer
lea asking 70 ra living wage for those
who toll and live on the soil But those
we're the moving considerations which
caused the contract TO be put out ais
IL is; and even as IL is, It is still strong,
and a good plan TO start with.
We want the fellows who eat the
bread Of this country to know that
we are not arbitrarily driving them to
pay arbitrary prices for wheat, but We
do want them to at least pay the cost
of production for our wheat. We want
the statistics, so we can show the con-
ditions In this country regarding the
sale of wheat. DO you know why
wheat went down as fast as II did? II
we had had this service, an organized
department, you would not have seen
wheat selling In Idaho for what II Ii
now.
You have been condemned because
| you did not sell your wheat at $z.25
! Is there any argument to that? Sup
y pose every wheat raiser had tried &c
! sell at $2.25-you probably could nol
u have given IL away. Once In a while
man could have sold without breaking
. the price. but $50, 900 600 bu. wanted
u to sell within a week or u month-yol
! could not do II.
What we are trying to arrive at nov
Is a plan whereby no such condition
VII ever exist again; so that no maj
will get 25c a bushel more than an.
. other man, but n plan whereby we cal
q feed the market day by day, week b.
week, month by month-not flood IN
market at one time.
u You remember during the war. whei
u wheat went as high as $500, the Brit
" ish government stood the loss SO the
could sell Il &c loaf of bread, The
were engaged In II great war, and on
way to win that war was to sell tn
y people bread at Sc a loaf. But whe
- the war was over and the settlement
10 was made at Paris. do you know whit
80 they did right away? | don't suppos
" Wilson got a mile away from shore
~ Instead of sending a man from Frame
a and a u from France, and a ma
D. from England, and a man from Be
GUM, they conspired and sent on
man to represent the whole outfit.
j. want TO give you enc fact, When he 81
r here, did he say he represented II
n whole outfit-that there would he 4
competition? Oh. no; The first thin
he began to circulate reports of gre
~ wheat crops In South America and
ny Russia. The text thing he did WI
O. to sell ten million bushel on the ma.
nd kct here. The thing he was hungI
to for was wheat, but he began to sci
Then he turned around and sold son
of more. Instead of buying $50, 600, on
,ir bu., he sold no, 900 600! lie came he.
on organized to do this, to break o.
to prices,
'st suppose he had come against the
ny $. Grain Growers with that kind of
ey proposition? our pooling cpmmittO
knowing the average cost Of produ
m ton IN America, would have nnswere
lat "WC have got to give those follows
as living wage We are simply selling
is for them; they are all signed up, al
10 we toilllOl llliH, 10 you NulNN
wheat would have dropped TO $3.50
nk hushel? Wheat would never Ia
en- broken In the U, 5, Of America, ncvC
nd II we had that kind of an organizatit
In when Il takes 650, 900 600 bu, of O
nd 500, 000, 600 bu, yield to satisfy o
raj home consumption.
on Take the big harvester manufa
IA turers. When they produce too MAJ
binders they sell them to France, b
m priced In America, And there is
six sense In letting England, France, &c
art many. or anybody else, fix the wag
lily the market I'm France, does not fix
nix wages OF $500, 600 free farmers
so America!
with this great national organi'
tion now, II is like making the I'll
round of the binder. We may have
lot of green ones hooked up, too, sol
~ broke and some unbroke, and VII
wy we get around VI will know mC
about what Is the right principle,
!, will know whether Il is better to p,
u,u entirely. or better to pool some q