Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-03-31

8 and that all wheat should be marketed
through the government at this fixed
price; price to be fixed according to
the cost of steel and farm machinery
For illustration to arrive at this ra-
ito, take the ten wears from 1904 to
1913, inclusive; take the city of Chi
cago which is a great wheat market
and also a large producer Of farm ma
chinery; take the average number of
| bushels OF wheat it required during
that ten-year period to purchase the
different machines used in the pro1uc-
tion of whect, and the average num-
Der of bushels of wheat require to
purchase ton of steel; maintain this
ratio, basing the price of wheat on
the cost of steel and farm machinery
and the profit in production Of this
great staple crop win not huctuate,
only in a local way on account of
climatic cnditions.
of course, to make this gilt-edeed
business proposition for the govern
ment and so arranged that it cannot
lose money, there would have to be
some strings on production. Probably 5
they would never have to be pulled.
With a normal production of slight C
" over seven hundred million bushels, t
and consumption of approximately
ix hundred million bushels, a slight /,
eduction in the acreage planted would
BRING production down to home de- il
hands. Everybody with a spark of il
human feeling in their system has a.
eep sympathy for, and will mitigate OF
far as possible, the sufferings of ct
ne starving millions of Europe, but is
ny shout we add millions of our own
eople to the multitudes of Europe7 W
why should we cause sorrow and to
ouble, financial loss and distress to | Oh
ON fifty to seventy-fve percent of II
If people by the over-Droducton of nv
cd products, when Europe is unable ot
buy and there is no one to pay bu
e bills9 al,
Europe should place her orders no
'nths ahead for her requirements. | An
en- government price-fxing and con | hol
u OF our great staple crops would
nedy our trouble. I ,or
If the cost of steel and farm ma oor
merry places the price of our pro ers
cts so high that Europe will not an,
Y, we could then curtail our pro ha,
'tion to home requirements and {
nd the financial loss and suffering thr
t always follows over-production bun
lr. Wallace, if yOu are interested and
the foregoing and wish to give if dist
Their thought, / have feasible 30 {
'kable scheme for the control of fan
duction; this scheme so far. has tior
II subscribed to by 100 percent of q
farmers it has been put up to. bro
have feasible workable schemei dist
financing the proposition that ava
I'D hurt no one, and benefit MANY. g
re are not begging, would not have and
ask for an appropriation except. | DC
laps for small amount for a farm | exis
'ey, or gathering statistics showing Anne
percent of acreage sOwn to wheat Irelf
ach locality. mitt
mother solution of this problem sect,
III ne 10 organize the farmer for in al
purpose of controlling production. | all
rider to do this we would have TO evok
rise the teachings; he would have ''7
e educated along business lines to 81
taught that in order to maintain child
place in the business world pav TO 7
lonest debts, properly feed. clothe throu
educate his children, he would trim
10 grow one spear instead of the inc n
he had grown before. He would seT
to be taught that by producing Trela,
he less than the demands of con ! peopI,
ton he would receive his great an an
eturns. He would soon find ont 4 less.
ping this that no one was his f. | Irish
al superior. He would probably fore {
he habit of squeezing little human
as 40 the hnanclers of todayf cir
once educated along this line in the
ght become greater menace to resour
MY than the present Wall Street indusr
~ louay; 50 we believe it advis- the q
take him under the government male
now Whiie he is willing to be and f
~. conditi
mixing you for your attention Irish :
ng that you will give this pro r;biJati
n every consideration if de- Americ
Deg 10 remain, will re
Very truly yours. terrible
WILLIAM POTTER. whom
vile, idaho, fics -,
10, 1921. beri+o,,