Williams news., 1921-08-12
ASHURST WRITES TO
 ARIZONA GENTLEMEN

ored by your kind invitations
 to be present at the joint meet
 ing of the Arizona Cattle Crow CTS Association and the Arizona
 Wool Growers Association, but
 inasmuch as I cannot person.
 ally be present 1 avail myself of this opportunity to submit for your consideration some views which I hope may be
 deemed worthy to be read at your joint session.
 At the outset, permit me to congratulate each and all of you upon the manful way in which you have withstood the
 disastrous shock which always comes as the back-wash of long and destructive war.
 Your financial losses have been tremendously heavy, and like true sportsmen and true patriots you have spent very little time in useless complaint but have met these disastrous days with high courage and brave hearts.
 While it is true that wide spread disaster in business and trade comes as the reaction of a great war, 1t is also sadly true that the present enormous de- pression and decline in the price of everything produced by the livestock growers, far mers and ranchers, have been made more acute and destruct- i've by some unwise government tai policies which seem to have been followed by our Govern ment for the past fifty years.
 For example: The Depart ment of Agriculture annually expends millions of dollars in an honest attempt to aid the stockralser, farmer and ranch CT. Tons of printed pamphlets are sent out each year -eIlino the farmer how to kill gophers and prairie dogs, how to breed and how to feed cattle, sheep, and hogs, how to raise cotton and wheat, etc., all of which is very good. agricultural col leges are maintained to instruct the stockraiser and farmer how to produce larger crops, larger herds, larger focks. but the stockholder and farmer are suspicious of a system which lnstructs them how to raise cattle, sheep, wheat, cot ton, etc. but which allows the bottom to drop out of his mar ket just at the very time when -he stockraiser and farmer should and ought to be receiv- | ng some substantial return for Ihe money, the time and the | he has put into his busi- ness; therefore, some way must andwill be found to see to it hat a market shall be vouch- 'afed to the producer.
 One solution (but not the 'nly one) to afford relief would De to. extend longtime credits md complete discount privi- eges to farm and livestock ne- got1able paper so that the live 'tock grower and the farmer would not be compelled to sell l. lnder pressure when the mark tt was unfavorable, but could va1t one or two years until mar ret conditions were more fav- 'rable, or in other words to Ieep his head above water un- 1 Il he could sell at fair profit.
 ,F1fty-two percent of the peo- ,le of the United States live in 1t1es or towns having a popula- lon of over twenty-five hun- red, and these city dwellers ellVer beautiful orations to l our men and young women rglng them to "get back to he farm', but they forget that he only way to keep the boys { nd girls on he farm is to make f he farm profitable. Z
 Nobody has any justification ( or expecting that the stock l alser and farmer should con- t nue to produce beef, mutton, I ldes, wool, cotton and wheat I t loss so that the consumer I l the cities may obtain these V ommodities cheap. For exam f le; the cattle grower furn- | hes the mutton and wool for s UT nation, but it is an uphill r ask to enlist the support of the ublic at large for policies of tate that tend to encourage e ,ockraising. a
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