Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-02
CLAIMS NEWs-BUDGET
is UNFAIR TO EQUITY
Chetek, Wis, Aug 81, 1921
Ladysmith News-Budget,


Dear Sirs: / notice you are very
active in pushing the organization of
the Farm Bureau in this county and
never lose a chance to give them the
very best space in your paper, also
notice that you are very reluctant 10
giving the American Society of Equity
any write-ups of your own free will
and when you do have anything to
say you put it in an out Of the way
place in very small type, and would
like to ask why it is that you take this
stand
IN the first place l would like to
ask you some questions and if | am
wrong would like to have you set ME
right
First, what is there wrong with the
Equity Society?
Second, what is it that the Equity
is trying to do for the farmer that
is not for the best of the whole COM
ed?
And why is it that you would take
stand against farm organization
that has been working for the good
Of the farmer for the last Is years,
and now are where they have begun TO
accomplish some of the things we
have been striving for?
Another thing is why is it you think
the Farm Bureau is the thing when
you know that it is being pushed by
all the big business interests and by
the papers that are controlled by them
| am sorry that you are not getting
in line with us instead of lending your
support to this new organization.
which you surely must know will put
farm organization back several years.
as you certainly know that it is being
united in one organization that will
give us strength.
| notice in your paper that you have
printed several eXaggeratiOns in re-
gard to Farm Bureau dOings, one of
which is that they have 1900 members
in Barron county, which is not true
by at least 100, and that it was
through their efforts that 0leomargd-
rine was gotten out of Barron county,
which is absolutely untrue.
Now another thing l would like to
call your attention to is the fact that
the Farm Bureau has not the repre-
sentation nationally that the Equity
has as the Equity Society is a mem
Der of the National Board of Farm
Organizations with membership Of
100000 and this is the main reason
of starting this new farm organization
| for the purpose of splitting us up.
Now YOU surely must realize that
| what is good for us farmers is also
good for you who live in town, and
that the success of any business in
any of these small towns like Lady
smith will depend upon the amount
of money the farmers receive for their
crops. as no more money will pass
| through the banks of a town that they
can get for them.
| know that you are OH the wrong
track and that you will see your folly
sooner or later, but would like to have
YOU see it sooner as it is for your good
as we'll as ours.
/ am appealing to you. as sound
| headed business man. to have you in
yestigate and find out who is behind
| the Farm Bureau movement and ask
Yourself the question, if this is what
| they want, if it is what the farming
interests want, and why it is that IT
| is being pushed by all Of the big pa
| perS who you know are controlled Dy
| s,o+a hat
we want, and after you have done
| this and you see your way clear IL
go on as you have, it is up to you ia
, do so. as it is your business and not
us farmers.
This is a big proposition and is one
that ought to have the thought OF all
business men and farmers as it sure
ly is the business mans fight as well
as the farmers, and will have to be
made so before we will be able TO &C
cOmplish what we desire and that is
cost of production plus a reasonable
profit.
The great trouble seems to be that
! as soon as a farmer starts talking
about getting more money for what
he raises the average man of the small
cities will throw up his hands as he
thinks he is paying at present
enough, which may be true but it isn't
! our desire to add to the price that the
consumer now pays in order for Us
to receive more but to devise means
| by which we will be able to get the
| products to the consumer without sc