The Washington times., 1922-03-04
Well! What a Shock.

Well! What Shock
q ENATOR CAPPER of Kansas, first-class Senator
~ editor farmer, publishes Cappers Weekly. The. {
farmers read it, believe in it, and this shows their
good They and the city people Of Kansas COM
bined, send Capper to Washington, and that shows
THEIR good sense. He is of the "farm boc rising
70 power, and proud of it.
This picture drawn by J. M. Baer formerly Congress
from North Dakota whose work you have often
this page, tells its imaginary story.
All through the war; when the railroads would surely
have gone bankrupt having exhausted their credits and
failed to keep up their roads, the Government took them
and guaranteed them profits all the way through
Baers cartoon published in Senator Cappers paper
shows how shocked the railroads would be if the Govern
ment should suddenly guarantee profit to the farmer
even moderate profits
Of course, Government going to do nothing of then
kind, and what is more, the farmers don't want it.
They DO want decent credits They would like the
right their farms of the billions Of dollars
for which their crops SELL And they going to get
that right for the farm boc is power that will have
to be taken seriously
AS you read Senator Cappers weekly which ought
do if you happen to be newspaper editor, you under
stand why the farmers had to form kind of
bloc" else step up the other kind of block and
be sold out by the sheriff.
| You read this:
farmer gets about cents pound for n cowhide.
| The shoemaker pays 81 a pound wholesale for sole
| leather The Central Leather Corporation reports
deficit after fixed charges of $12 100000 for the
| first nine months of 1921. corporation that
lose money in deal like that ought to be given
! BOBBY prize.
How would you like to raise hides and sell them at
cents poundi Out of whole cowhide the farmer
doesn't get enough to buy one pair of shoes-nothng
like it.
In one corner of Senator Cappers extremely wide
awake weekly you read what happened to Farmer A. j.
Kantz.
He sent car of alfalfa hay to the Kansas City market
1t held q 800 pounds.
This is the report he got from the commission mer-
chant:
''The hay sold for $1,000. War tax, freight,
| spucking' watching and the middeman s commits
sion amounted to $685."
This left the farmer 1861, So ton for his hay
1t cost the farmer So ton to have the hay baed $3.50
ton for hauling it to the railroad He also paid the cost
of irrgatng, cutting and stacking the crop. Allowing
nothing for the value of his land his time, Farmer
Kantz lost Just about So so a ton o his hay.
He cultivated the land, did all the work and all the
worrying He lost $3.50 ton. Everybody else-Govern-
ment railroad and commission man-MADE money.
Do you wonder the farmers have decided that they
had better DO SOMETHINGf
They are going to do something They going to
organize and They have learned from the Sen
atoral "farm bloc" that if they send like Capper.
Hiram Johnson Borah La Toilette and others Of the right
kind to the Senate they at last have their day. They
are going to HAVE it. They going to make the Gov
eminent take as much interest in farmers who actually
produce something it has hitherto taken in manpua
tors that produce nothing.
| The Government will have to help in financing and
with marketing 1t will be good thing for the Govern