Phillips County herald., 1922-01-13
Farmer Is Working
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time is right now, II he expects to
join in the prosperity which the farm
-er. is bound to experience soon. Good
times for any industry you can name
will not prevail until the farmer him.
self Is making money.
Governor S. R. Mckelvie of Nebras-
ka, thus warned jammed roomful Of
business men at the Denver Civic
and Commercial association stock
show luncheon AS principal speaker
at this important annual boost event,
the governor-farmer-publisher of Col.
orado's neighbor state electrified his
hearers with an eloquently expressed
volume OF real truths.
The farmer, Governor McKelvie
said, enjoyed his war profits with ev-
erybody else and chucked all unne-
cessary work when wheat raising be-
came super-profltable. Now he is
back doing solid, faithful work and
will be the first to emerge upon the
real era Of prosperity that is gradu-
ally coming.
Before the farmer today, would
say, there lies an era o, greater pros
perity than he has ever known in
years." said Governor McKelvie. "And
1t will be permanent. The country
wasted money by millions of dollars,
nv M I.,r ad Inv-t,. n
the war. The savings of the people
supplied this cash, so It will be saw
ings again which will rescue the sit
ration and the farmer is busy making
the land produce"
The farmer. the speaker said, is not
broke. He has his plant and is do
ing two shifts day. He will never
go on strike
Decrying the organization and ac-
tivities of an agricultural bloc" in
the U. S. senate as subversiye of in
dependence that should exist among
the people. Governor McKelvie called
for the solution of present economic
problems along lines followed during
the war. He continued:
II submit to you that the one who
would obtain an advantage for the
farmer through class movement is do
ing positive injury to agriculture un-
timately regardless OF anything tenn
porary, any temporary benefits that
may accrue.
Il consider the outlook auspicious,
/ consider it favorable. do not
think that the era Of prosperity will
be Immediately upon us. ! think 1t
will be only gradual return to nor
malcy. normal. prosperous conditions.
ITO the farmer would say. and to
the live stock man would say that
l think that they have less to worry
about than anybody else. and ! think
that We will have an era of greater
prosperity than he has felt in many.
many years. permanent prosperity.
The farmer. has liquidated his costs.
He has gotten back to prewar con-
dition. he has hit the bottom. he has
begun to climb upward. and the climb
is going to be gradual but permanent
During the war we wasted $751;
0o0,000.000. II is going to have to be
paid. From what source do you think
II viii come? From the operation OF
the mints? Never. 1t will come
from the operation of the individual
who applies honest labor to the po-
tential resources OF the land. creates
new wealth and then stores II up MS
We have done heretofore. and the
greatest natural resource we have Is
the land and the farm owners and ths
man that operates the land, conse-
ouently he is the fellow who is going
to get this new wealth. The demand
for 1t. the necessity for II. for this
wealth. Will return to the farmer
first, and then we will feel n reiec.
tion of the benefits that the farmer
felt"
Governor McKelvie said that II he
had the power there is one thing.
one remedy. that he would prescribe
that would give the country prosper.
ity tomorrow. II would be n rsadjust.
ment OF the values between the raw
products CT the farm and the finish
I'd products OF the factory.
"The trouble with the farmer now
is not that his corn is too low IN
price, nor his wheat too low In price.
Nor. his cattle or hogs or sheep or
dairy products are too low In prlce.r
said the speaker, THE trouble Is
that when he sells them he can't ex.
change them for enough Of the things
he has 10 buy. His corn Is not 80
much lower In price than II was be.
fore the war. and yet q win purchase
less than half the things the farmer
has TO buy that II would before the