Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-02-01

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belief. Still the bureau turned down
the proposal, regardless of the fact
that all these outsiders are paying. for
it's support in taxes. Now to my mind
it looks just little unfair for these
people to be taxed for the support
Of the bureau, and then have the or
ganization turn around and turn down
this proposition. And mind you the
Bureau had nothing to offer along
this line to offer relief. We all be-
lieve in the various cooperative Or
CARNATIONS, but we also all know
that it will take perhaps ten or fifteen
years before they will have grown to
be of much real benefit to the farm
, .ers. That will take time. But the
farmers need help now, this year.
j; Neither did I see any serious criti-
cism Of the way in which the War
Finance Corporation is being admin
istered. The farmers were promised
cheap money at seven and half per
cent, but instead of that the papers
are being drawn at 10 per cent, and
: I have yet to hear Of a cheap loan
| The large bankers simply got, in and
made a joke Of the whole thing. Such
things ought to be condemned thor
oughly and unsparingly, instead OF
ignoring and smoothing it over.
I also notice that the Bureau went
on record as favOring the repeal of
|, the Adamson eight hour law, in re-
gard to train crews. It may perhaps
/ be true that some of the railroad
| workers are overpaid at this time, as
compared to the farmers, but I for
one do not like to see a supposed
farmers organization make deal
: with the railroad interests to squeeze
the working man. Such things are
contemplate. The ones that should
be cut down first of all are the high
er officials Of our large business Or
CARNATIONS. There are men on our
railroads and in the large corpora
lions drawing five, ten, fifteen and
even up to fifty thousand dollars, and
more a year salaries. They certainly
ought to have little trimming be-
fore you talk-of cutting the wages
of a. workman.
In the Farm Bureau itself we have
the National President, Mr.. Howard
drawing about $4,000 year, and
other officials drawing nearly similar
salaries. How about cutting these
salaries? Our congressman, our gov
ernor and other state officials and
our federal officers are drawing prince
ly salaries. Our Federal Judges even
have the gall to try to ask for an
increase in salary. We need to econ
omize in these days as much as pos
ssible, bur why not begin with the big
fellows? But I have not yet seen
where the Farm Bureau said any
thing about cutting down these fell
lows. They picked out the little rail
road workers.
= The trouble with the Bureau is that
it is dominated and controlled in many
cases by the large business interests.
Any man can become member
whether he is a farmer or not, and
as result it has become weak and
spine-less on many questions. 1 for
one can see absolutely no reason why
expect, to belong to the Bureau and
have voice in it's CONTROL, as we'll
as in the determination of it's policies.
You don't see any farmers belonging
to the Merchants Association, the Law
yers Association, the Bankers Assocla,
ton, or any other purely business or
ganization. Then why in the name OF
common sense should the business men
expect to belong to what is supposed
to be farmers organization? The
fairness of this proposition should be
evident to anyone. There should be
no hard feeling about it. Even il
this county (MarshalH the new ar
ticles of incorporation which they tried
to adopt last fall provided that any
one could become a member. It is
things like this which make many
farmers suspicious Of the bureau.
I have made these criticisms of thu
bureau because it asks to be support
ed by public money through taxation
, and it is, it seems, about to under
take a campaign for laws to force
the commissioners to appropriate
! money for them. Now if they main
, tanned their organization themselves