New-York tribune., 1922-12-10

sive price 10 the consumer or cause
the consumer to freeze TO death.
"The producer Of raw material feels
that the manufacturer fixes the price
he shall receive and also the price
the consumer shall pay. and holds out
undue profits TO himself.
"The farmer Of to-day wants 70 know
why the industrial and commercial
concerns are permitted 70 pyramid
their taxes and compel the consumer
to pay them; why under the same cir
cumstances the farmer is compelled 10
pay his tax, not from profit, but out
Of his original investment, most farm
ing enterprises having been conducted
al loss OF on a margin Of practically
no profit.
Facts About Competition
with the present system OF market
ing compelling the producer Of raw
products TO sell in competition with
world trade, with the industrial pro-
Queer able to control his market by
limited production and price agree
ments, like the Pittsburgh plus on
steel and Gary, Ind, plus on cement;
with the whole financial structure Of
the country built around commercial
and industrial banking, and with our
transportation system SO arranged that
the freight is paid by the farmer on
his own produce to market and also
paid By him on what he purchases for
mis- own consumption, there has arisen
an urgent and persistent demand that
an economical readjustment must be
made, and 50 far as such conditions
are remedial by national legislation
il is the duty Of those Of US who are
in Congress TO afford such legislative
relief as it is possible TO provide"
1t is in response to the imperative
need for legislation in behalf Of the
agricultural industry and the public
dependent on that industry for its
food, Mr. Dickinson says, that the
farm bloc has been formed in House
and Senate. lie says this is not m
evil, that it is not purposed to do any
thing not in consonance with the pub
lie interest, and that bloes always have
existed in Congress and out Of Con-
gress since the foundation of the gov
eminent.
Representative Dickinson says the
farm bloc already has achieved such
legislation and has "made the name
Of agriculture heard"
THE attention Of the master minds
Of the day." said Mr.. Dickinson. "has
been attracted to our cause. Otto Kahn
the most successful business writer OF
to-day, invites q representative Of agri-
culture 20 his home and with the big
financiers Of New York they sup to-
gether, and this farmer tells these men
Of the real problems Of the rural peo-
PIE Farming interests have been men
toned oftener and given more columns
Of space in the last year in all the big
dailies and trade journals than in any
other FIVE years We have passed mora
agricultural Legislation than at any
other time in the history OF the coun-
try.
"In answer to the claim that the
formation Of blocs is an evil, let me say
that they are rs natural as the flow Of
water downhill and have existed since
the formation Of our government.
'I want emphatically to deny that
the farm bloc Is promoting a purely
selfish program. We contend that our
problem Is to produce food, that when
We do so at loss we are asked 10
make a sacrifice in behalf Of some
other group. All we want is 70 make
farming a substantial business. paying
a living wage. All our legislation,
passed or proposes, has sought this
end. challenge any one TO show that
il is economically unsound. We can
show our influence in the passage Of
the cooperative marketing act, the
emergency tariff, the War Finance
Corporation, the grain futures act, the
hackers control act, all Of which haze
to do directly or indirectly with the
reward received by the farmer in the
oneration Of his farm"