Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-12-14
Harding Tells Congress
Cooperative Marketing
is Entitled To Support

The persistent demand Of organized
farmers for recognition of their right
to market their products on basis
Of absolute equality with other pro-
ductive industries, and for reduction
Of transportation charges, appears to
be getting results in Washington. That
the executive branch Of the federal
recognizes the farmers de-
mands as just and imperative was
demonstrated in President Hard
ing's message to congress, delivered in
person on Dec. 6. =.
The farm bureau federation has
fought hard for the passage Of fed
eral law that will guarantee, beyond
any question, the legal right of the
farmers to consolidate their interests
in cooperative marketing on nations
wide scale Such a measure is now
before congress, where opponents Of
the farmers interests have stubbornly
opposed it. Following is an extract
from the presidents message, sreferr-
ing to the agriculturaf situation:
Something more than tariff prOtec-
ton is required by American agricul-
ture; to the farm has come the earlier
and the heavier burdens Of readjust-
ment. There is actual depression in
our agricultural industry, while -agrl-
cultural prosperity is absolutely es-
sential to the general prosperity OF the
country. ~ iii s.srr. -
Congress has sought very earnestly
to provide relief. 1t has promptly
given such temporary relief as has
been possible, but the call is insisteM
for the permanent solution. 1t is IN
evitable that large crops lower the
prices and short crops advance them.
.sNo legislation can cure that funda-
mental law. - But there must be some
economic solution for the excessive
variation in returns for agricultural
production. 1t is rather shocking to
be told, and to have the statement
strongly supported, that 10000 bales
of cotton, raised on American planta-
lions in a given year, actually will be
worth more to the products than 13,-
100000 bales would have been. Equal
" shocking is the statement that 7OO,-
100000 bushels of wheat raised by
American farmers would bring them
more money than billion bushels.
Yet these are not exaggerated state
luc11lS. Ia VOAAu VAOASE SAANA~S - -
tens of millions who need food and
clothing which they cannot get, such
condition Is sure to indict the So
cial system which makes it possible.
.'In the main the remedy lies In dis
tribution and marketing. Every pro-
per encouragement should be given to
the cooperative marketing programs.
These have proven very helpful to the
cooperative communities in Europe.
In Russia the cooperative community
has become recognized bulwark OF
| law and order and save individualism
from engulfment in social paralysis.
Ultimately they will be accredited
with the salvation OF the Russian
state. ss s@s;s,.a sssst ss q &, Ell Az -.s
..There is the appeal for this ex-
pertinent. Why not try it? No one
challenges the right Of the farmer to
large share Of the consumers pay
for his product, no one can dispute
that we cannot live without the farm
er. He is justified in rebelling against
the transportation cost Given a fair
return for his labor he will have less
occasion to appeal for financial aid
and given assurance that his labor