Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-10
CURING 'THE ECONOMIC DISTURBANCE"

cures proposed as there are schools of l political medicfne-and that's saying | nouthfu. l
 One wants legislation to enlarge and simplify farm credits, so the farmer can borrow more money on easier terms
 One wants all dealing in grain futures forbidden, so as to shut off the specula- tors from speculatinG.
 One wants the tariff on all farm pro- ducts put up so high that no foreign products can possibly squeeze through it's bars.
 oae wants the railroads compelled to take all the wheat and potatoes that are offered and to carry them wherever told, instanter, and on pain of confscation if they don't. In spite of disastrous experiences with government management only three or four years back, some few still want government to take over and operate the railroads.
 Others want all regulatory laws re- peaIed to permit a return to the old days of cut-throat competition one week and monopolistic extortion the next. No great number seem to agree upon any one medicine. In the meantime, the patient isn't getting any better. We thought. year ago, that the murder ous deflation of 1919, and 1920 in farm products had ended and that farmers, as well as other people, had got started back | towards economic health. But it seems not. It is not denied by any in posi- tion to know the truth that things in the great farming states are worse than ever before.
 The Cincinnati Enquirer doesn't think legislation of any kind is going to help much. It asks
 What then is to be said of the fail | ure to produce the results desired? Sim | ply that the congress of the United States of America can not alter world conditions. | Economic disturbances affecting the globe are at the bottom of the farmers un- fortunate troubles"
 Ye-es; perhaps. That sounds sort O sensible at first reading out loud. But l Economic disturbances affecting the globe" don't seem to have a similar ef- | feet on the prices of manufactured goods or the wages of railroad brotheThoods, say. They don't seem to have any mark edly depressing effect on the prices of building materials or the wages paid to the building trades.
 have little good pine on my wood lot. I was offered $6 thousand for it on the stump, almost twenty years ago At that time I could buy pine lumber sawed, for $22 a thousand. Now, car get no offer of over s5 thousand fo1 that same pine, on the stump. But if want to buy some pine boards the lum, ber-dealer in town asks s9G a thousand 1 for them.
 Being but simple hayseed, of per
 haps not too bright mentality, cant
 for the life of me see why economic dis turbances affecting the globe" should D,
 responsible for knocking down the pric,
 of my standing pine trees while it's eff
 feet on sawed pine lumber is to boos
 the price moBe than four times. Such a condition irresistibly forces tn , question whether sauce for the goose is
 after all, sauce for the gander? Tn
 wisdom of the ancients is in that say 2 : ing, but, somehow, it doesn't seem t 2 fit existing conditions.
 There was once time when the mos talked about railroad manager in tn [, country was reported to have summed U his idea of railroad management in 9Th
 public be d-d5S' and when the adrnitte
 rule of all was to charge what the traf fic would bear" Yet in those reprehensi
 ble days the freight on a barrel of f1ou
 from St. Paul was only about half wha it is now.
 Again, can't for the life of me SC why economic disturbances affecting