Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-06

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: by those who do is an insignificant
t loss compared with the closing up Oh
the Montana market for durum wheat.
How charmed We ought to be with a
policy that further enriches the "a
vored horticulturists of California at
|, the expense of the drouth strlcssn ana
desperate but courageous dry armer
of Montana. Durum wheat serves i
for the purpose of illustration. TO a
greater or less extent every Other
product of our farmers is shut out OF
the European market. wheat of all
varieties, flour. pork. beef, entaillng a
loss incalculable in amount for when
a duty of l cent a pound on hides, a
raise of a few cents a pound on woods
is but a sorry recompense, while a
duty of Is cents a bushel on corn adds
insult to injury.
II How Montana Is Affected
LET me give you q few figures to
show how it is that now, after five
years of disaster upon disaster, the
Montana farmer is obliged, when a
merciful providence has blessed him
with bountiful crops to sell his prod
ucts for a pittance above the cost of
making them. In 1921 we exported
2S0,000,O00 bushels of wheat. In the
six months ending June 30, 1922, but
100000 bushels. At the present
rate of export, we shall fall short of
normal by at least 50.OOO,OO0 bushels,
though Europe should take more than
she did last year because a reduced
acreage is cultivated because of IN
favorable conditions. owing to lack Of
fertilizers. OF beef, we exported in
1921, Al ,O00,0 600, as against 100000
for the first half of this year, a de-
| a11pa ~ Ok nn nnnt If nArE thnrn
was a decline from sc, 1000, 900 pounds
to 24,000,000 pounds, a loss for the
year of more than 80 per cent. OF
bacon, the decline was 415.O00,0 900
bounds to ISL 100000 for the six
month period-substantially % per
cent.
THE Washington Star of August 81
last carried a New York dispatch.
printed on the pages devoted to mar
ket news. entitled Farmers Complain
Bitterly Over Returns for Crops in
which the very sensible statement was
made that the difference between a big
year and a fair year for the farmer
lies in the amount of his products
shipped abroad And then there was
added, Europe is willing and anxious
to buy American agricultural products,
but she is unable to pay for them
The American congress could de-
wise no more effective way of keeping
her unable to pay than through the
tariff legislation which has just had
the approval of the president, and
which robs the farmer both ways-by
increasing the cost of what he buys
and diminishing the demand and. con-
seuuently. the price of what he has to
sell.
Half of Copper Sold Abroad
1.-The situation is not different as to
copper. Normally so per cent of our
copper output goes abroad. The mines
Of Butte are open and the smelters in
! this city are running today because
Germany has again begun buying cop
per. But she can pay for it only in
the goods she produces, having no
gold, and the new tariff law was de-
signed to shut her products out of our
market. How long, under the opera
ton of that law and the international
troubles in which she is involved, and
which our government does nothing
either to solve or to alleviate, she will
continue to buy is problematical.
Montana is paying pretty dearly to
help the interests that finance repub-
Iican campaigns, and they propose, if
rumor is to be credited. to flood this
state with money to elect a republican
senator. Indeed, it is said that Mr..
Riddick found favor in certain quar-
tiers in the primary contest because it
was understood or believed that. by
reason of his intimacy with Jim Wat
son, VIII Hays and other Indiana poll
! ticians. he could get the funds. Why
not? Is not the party committed to
that kind of thing by according New
berry n seat in the United States SEN
ate. it being admitted that at least
I S195. 900 was spent in securing his
nomination, most of it contributed, if
not by himself, by members of his fam
iIy. The very magnitude of the sum
suggests. as the evidence amply
proved. that much of it was used cor
ruptly. SO much credit is due to those
republican senators who voted to I'M
seat him that ! am moved to revive
your memory as to. who they we're
Borah. Capper. Jones of Washington,
Kenyon. Ladd, LaFollette, NOrbeck,
Norris and Sutherland.
Riddick's Bonus Attitude
1T is to the credit of Mr.. Riddick
that he answers promptly all letters
sent him. What Montana representa-
tive in congress does not? 1t is to his
credit that he is diligent about commits
SlOnS WIN WHICH HIS CONSTITUENTS
charge him before the departments.
No man in either house excels my col
league, Senator Myers, in either re-
spect. But what is he going to do
about the great questions that come
before the United States senator He
is going to stand with President Hard
ing. The president has. up to the
present, evinced no keen desire to see
a soldiers adjusted compensation law
enacted. Win Mr.. Riddick stand with
him against the service men or against
him and with the boys who barred or
offered to bare their breasts to the
foe?
"Partisanship aside. upon what basis
, does Mr.. Riddick aspire to represent
the people Of our grand state in the
United States senate? What record
had he in the state before he was
elected to congress? What distinction
has he achieved in congress? His rec
ord there is a perfect blank, so far as
the serious work of the house is O
cerned. He has had no part whatever
in any of the legislation of congress,
not local in character, as will appear
by the record, and if he ever perl
formed any service before any commit
tee of either house, it was so trifling
in character as to have passed un-
noticed even so near by as the other
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