Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-06-22
STATE REFERENDUM
SOLID FOR new LAW


The farmers Sixteen POINTS, are
sweeping the state in the farm bureau
referendum.
Minnesota farmers are telling con-
gress this week just what they need !:
and theFl demands are backed by ballots
taken in more than i.0O0 township
eancuses called by the Minnesota Farm
Bureau federation. Every caucus
voted on Is national Iegisiatiy aues-
lions now pending in congress.
Incomplete returns from 81 counties
show farmers virtually unit ia their
demand for Immediate reduction of
freight rates. On the basis of partial
returns, officers OF the federation said
the voting indicates that at least no.
COO OF the 178,O0O farmers in the state
could ship quantities OF products. now
held from the market by high freight
rates. if rail tariffs were cut.
In the first nine counties. which sent
in final returns from every township,
1857 producers answered yes when
asked whether lower freight rates
would enable them to ship much larger
quantities Of farm products. OF the
SITS farmers who voted in these nine
counties, only IL said they had not
handicap in marketing their crops.
Sixteen questions were submitted to-
the farmers as part of a national refer
endum, launched by the American Farm
Buread federarl
TabuIations of early returns at state
farm bureau federation headquarters
showed.
That the farmers Of the state are
a ~. =
of a general sales tax
They are voting 20 to / in favor OF
continuing the excess profits tax
They are voting 80 to 1 in favor of
construction OF farm to market roads
prior to the building of transeontin-
entail highways under federal control ri
They favor the Immediate completion
OF the St Lawrence-Gfeat Lakes water
way by a ma ioriry running as high as
200 to 1.
II the votes so far tabuiated are rep
resentafive Of the sentiment OF the
farmers OF the state the producers line
up as follows On ether questions includ-
ed in the Farmers Sixteen Points" :
For laws prohibiting short selling OF
farm products, 175,4 64: opposed 3.114.
For federal regulation of packers.
170,403; opposed, s,075.
For constitutional amendment for
bidding the issuance OF tax exempt sH
curities, 134,360 opposed. 24,11S.
For passage OF truth in fabric law.
compelling merchants to label their
goods plainly with the name and guam
THY of the kind of material used IN
cloth, I1T-354;; opposed, Isss2
For laws guaranteeing the farmers
the right of collective bargaining In
marketing their products. 177,106; ep-
posed, 1,372
For establishment of 500, 90O.O tW
government export corporation to fin
ance the sale of American crops abroad.
$4,000: opposed 23,17S.
For increasing the limit ON farm land
bank loans from $40, 600 to So, GOO, yes,
147,430; opposed, 31.04S-
For law empowering the federal re-
serve board to give priority to loans
for basic production. 1886; opposed,
6.523-
For a personal rural credit system.
1880; opposed, 4,5O7.
For legislative action to provide long
time loans for livestock producers, 49,
sos; opposed. 5.173.
FOE ESTABLISHMENT OF UeaHs= 10 IuE-
nish credit to farmers on receipts fer
products stored in bonded warehouses.
1866; opposed, 1862
These figures were compiled by the
federation in proportion to the major
tiles shown by the first 10000 votes
tabulated.
"The returns have come from every
part OF the state, officials said, and
we know they are representative OF the
farmers opinions The percentage OF
yes and no votes has hardly varied
since the first reports came in. The
maioriries estimated on the basis of the
early returns would be proportionafely
larger If every farmer IN the state had.
voted"
The results OF the Minnesota vote will
be telegraphed to Chicago. and be added
to the votes cast in 46 other states IN
the referendum launched by the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation. The
final results win then be laid before
congress.
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