The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1922-01-27

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WARDWELL ASTHOMPSON Pubs.
Az G.. g. THOMPSON.
Editor and Business Manager.
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.
(Exclusive to the Pioneer Expressly
Farmers from the grain-growing
states are flooding Congress with
petitions that the United States
Grain Corporation be revived. Sen
1iment in favor Of fixed-price fol
wheat and perhaps other grains has
been growing in the west for months
past, business men as well as farm.
ers joining in the urgent appeals
that have been forwarded to Wash
ington.
Congressman. George M. Young
took the floor last week in behalf of
the farmers, demanding that some
thing be done for agriculture and
done at once. In the course of his
speech Young said:
"Gentlemen, you are expecting
shat in some mysterious way agri-
sulture will come back, the same as
after the panic of 1893."
You will wait in vain.'
Agriculture is not coming back!"
Conditions have changed since
1898. The door was open then. 1t
il closed now"
"The farmer can not pull himself
up by his own boot-straps. Nobody
knows that better than the farmers.
You men from the East, and those
whom you represent, do not seem to
sense it. You can prophesy good
times as coming until your faces be-
some blood-red, but they will not
come until the farmers are placed on
. cost-of-production basis. That can
snly be accomplished by one of two
things"
"(1) Reduce all other industry to
the extremity Of agriculture, SO that
farmers can buy upon the same de-
1ated prices which they sell, or (2)
have the Government, through INTEL
fgent acreage control and price
guaranty, restore the cost-plus pri-
ees to the farmers"
Congressman Young further de-
slared that government control of
the grain industry would strike a
death blow. at speculation, and in
sure the growers of a fair return
tpon their crop investments. In this
connection he advocated the adop-
ton Of permanent governmental
policy.
Two bills have been introduced,
enc by Congressman Sinclair of N.
D., and the other by Congressman
Ehristopherson Of S. D., both of
which would effect a government
Drice-guaranty. Several western
members believe that features of
both bills might be merged in joint
measure that would solve the prob
lem. Representative Burtness work
ing upon the matter, and a confer
ence Of the farm group in the House
Is expected to be. called at which the
North Dakota delegation will stand
together for an immediate relief
program.
In the Senate Senator Ladd is also
demanding action. In. q recent
speech, before the Maine Society the
junior senator declared that If the
present condition is allowed to pre-
vail that the agricultural industry
viii perish, and that this country
win be forced to import ordinary
farm commodities within ten years.
Prior to the meeting Of the Ma
tional Congressional Committee the
members Of the state delegation met
and elected Congressman 0. B. Burt
ness, Of the first district, TO- repre-
sent North Dakota. Mr.. Burtness
viii be North Dakota's committee
man during the next two years.
A delegation Of congressman from
the wheat states, including Repre-
sentatives Burtness, Young and Sin
clair, appeared before the directors
of the. War Finance Corporation
last week urging that something be
done to bring the benefits Of the cor
boration into more direct contact
with the actual producers.
The statements made at the hear
ing reflected the great disappoint-
naent Of the farmers in not being