The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-16
What the Farmers
Might Do

Importance naturally attaches to
election of men to public Office and
to policies of government flowing
therefrom as to taxation and other
subjects.
But whoever may be successful at
the polls, however he and his party
or associates may reduce taxation,
he and they help but little, II there
is q scarcity of money with which to
pay.
Cut taxes rs per cent, and have
little or nothing with which to pay
them, and the burden is still heavy.
One good way of relieving the
weight of expenditures is to increase
income; and when that can be done
and the expenses cut, too, there is
genuine relief.
II the political factors can cut
taxes and we can add to our income,
it will certainly constitute happy
eventuation.
Leaving to the official hand the
one job, where shall the rest of US
head in? What may we do to pile
up more income for our substantial
industries, which In turn radiate
profits into every home?
Is there not some practical plan
that could be worked out to protect
our wonderfully productive farms
from market-glutted conditions?
When every producer ships at the
same time, prices are bound to be
low until the market begins to alb
sorb. AS supply decreases prices
rise. Is it not possible for us-us,
not some state function, always en-
meshed in politics and more often
a: .failure-to provide storage facilit-
les at home so our products can be
held until there is q demand at q
profit? A storage organization may
solve the problem and it should not
be difficult to finance it.
Is there not something more to be
done in the production of dairy pro-
ducts? Dairying is the great meal
ticket of agriculture, and sure one.
1t is also wonderful consumer OF
heavy commodities, such as hay. The
more dairying the better price for
hay sold on a market freed from
Cutting in proportion as dairy
herds utilize that product.
Should we not get behind such
projects as the American Falls res
ervoir, which would bring many mill
lions for distribution in Idaho?
Should we not lend our support to
mining, to timbering, to the live
stock industry and to every line OF
commercial and industrial endeavor
in our state?
Idaho has everything right now
unless it is the one big item of
spirit. Let's head for that-down
the highway of self-help and CO.
operation.
Another Man Agrees
While the editor of The Idaho Re-
publican was in Boise recently, re-
porter was sent to interview Mr..
Trego regarding the series he pub
lished last spring and summer en-
titled, What the Farmers are Do
ing" and the lady reporter on re-
ceiving a simple statement of the
work pronounced it an unusual pub
lie service and wrote column about
it. Alexander Mcpherson, formerly
pure food commissioner for Idaho,
and later agricultural superinten-
dent to conduct the educational
work for the settlers on the Twin
Falls tract, read the interview as
published and then wrote the follow
ing letter:
Twin Falls, Idaho, Nov. IA, 1922.
Mr.. Byrd Trego,
Editor, Idaho Republican,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Mr.. Trego:
saw reported interview you
gave to The Boise, Statesman with
regard to the work you were doing
to assist the farmers in your vicin-
ity, and say to you in all candor
that this work is so important that
you at least ought to have gold
medal from your constituents, II
nothing else.
1t is we'll known fact that the
| farmer does or should make his en-
tire living from his garden, chick
ems, etc., and any practice that
would prohibit farmer from hav-
ing a good garden, to my mind, is
criminal. If you can succeed in cor
recting the methods of the irriga-
ton companies, SO that the farmers
can have early water in order to
raise a garden, you have conferred
an inestimable favor to the farmers.
In my travels over the state, /
find considerable criticism with re-
CARDS to the times, and yet to me as
an investor, I believe that this is the
time to make investments for the
long swing. Property Is at its low
est possible ebb now and still as
sure as the waves Of the sea keep
coming in, the prices and values will
rise again. Hence, investments
must be profitable.
On account of past mistakes
where securities were sold to un-
suspecting investors in the east,
predicted on irrigation contracts,
| etc., who did not know these were
really construction securities, but
realized this later, that they must
pay for the mistakes Of the pro-
moter, etc., has given southern
Idaho a black eye for securities OF
that character, yet having learned
how to handle such matters we need
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