The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-09-21
Frank Clague
Talks to Farmers
BRINGS MESSAGE FROM WASH
NGTON TO PEOPLE OF SEC
OND DISTRICT.
THOUSANDS HEAR TALK.
MANY GATHER IN RAMSEY
STATE PARK SUNDAY
AFTERNOON.

That the United States has reached
the very lowest ebb in the tide OF it's
financial affairs and that there is
bound to be "come back" within the
at few months is the belief of Con-
.1essman Frank Clague of Redwood
Falls, Representative of the Second
Congressional District of Minnesota.
This hope was the keynote of an adj
dress given by Mr.. Clague at Ramsey
State Park Sunday afternoon, before
a gathering of several thousand resi-
dents of this vicinity. The meeting
was called by the Redwood County
Farm Bureau in order to give the
farmers and other people of this Sec
tion an opportunity to hear first hand
something Of the recent transactions
in Washington and Of the prospect for
some relief from the present financial
depression.
Mr.. Clague expressed considerable
optimism concerning the prospect of
financial relief for the country, stat
ing that in his belief conditions would
right themselves within the next few
months. He based this belief largely
upon the foreign need of American
raised products, on the large apprO-
priation Congress has recently made
for the financing of farm marketing
and on the fact that laborers which
have been stubbornly refusing to take
any of the war loss, will of necessity
have to resume work in mills, factories
etc. as the winter progresses, thus
Strengthening production which has
been subnormal throughout the past
several months because of the decreas-
ed wage question and consequent
strikes.
Believing that farmers and stock
raisers have before them an era of
splendid prosperity Mr.. Clague urged
his audience to forget present eondi-
tions in planning their next seasons
crops and to make preparations for
the biggest crop of food materials, in
cluding live stock products, that they
have had in years. He is confident
: that because of foreign crop and stock
conditions, the foreign market will ex-
eeed anything it has reached in sever
al years. He also pointed out that the
United States is sadly depleted as to
cattle and hogs and urged breeders to
expend every effort on stock for fu
ture selling.
Mr.. Clague stated that in his belief
foreign countries should pay to the
United States both the principal and
the interest of the tremendous war
loans. and that England has already
signifed making an initial payment
on her loan early in the new year. He
expressed disapproval of the high rate
of interest charged smaller country
banks by the big money institutions
of the east, showing his listeners that
rates charged them by local institu-
tions were generous, considering the
rate such Institutions had to pay on
their respective loans.
The speaker criticized the present
exhorbitant railway charges, especial
ly the excessive freight rates which
he held largely at fault for the pre-
sent low market for grains and stock
and for the extortionate coal prices.
He gave little hope of decreased
price in coal for sometime, to come,
showing how such a reduction was
hard thing to bring about because of
the enmeshed ownership of coal mines
railroads, lake freighters and the
docks at Duluth.
Mr.. Clague's message was one of
faith as well as of eptimism, and was
heartily received by his auditors. He
spoke for nearly an hour and after
the close of the talk many expressed
to him the wish that he had spoken
longer, naming several subjects of ma
tional legislation upon which they
tyould have been glad to have had his
opinion. He made no promises of fu-
Sture personal achievement but left his
Shearers fully assured that they were
well represented in Congress and that
their representative there was deter
mined to do his utmost to assist in
beneficial legislation.