The Washington times., 1923-10-29
MEYERS IS
JOKE, HI:
SAYS
Declares Commission, Now In
West, Has Made Laughing
Stock of Administration.
BY TOM EVERRITT,
Cosmopoaitan News Service.

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United States Senator Burton
X. Wheeler of Montana, today
declared that President Coolidge's
Warmers relief. committee" who
are now touring the West for the
alleged purpose of helping the
farmers solve their problems, have
made a laughing stock Of the
Coolidge Administration and
ought to be recalled to Washing
ton, where they can do less
HARM"
Farmers Deluded, He Says.
The farmers relief committee.
thus assailed by Senator Wheeler.
are Eugene Meyer, jr., managing
director, United States War Finance
Corporation, and Fank w. Mondell.
Of Wyoming, recently defeated for
election to the United States Senate.
Wheeler charged that Meye.c and
Mondell are attempting to delude the
Farmers into the belief that they are
not bankrupt; that the insolvent
all the wheat that they can produce
and that all the farmers have got to
do Is to hold on to their crops until
the prices go higher.
Meyer and Mondell may fool
some Of the bankers and business
men who take their Icue from the
Republican administration prompt
ers," said Wheeler, 'but they will
not be able to 'Coue' the farmers of
the country
Wheeler said: According to re-
ports reaching me from the West,
d 'Coue Special composed Of Eu-
gene Meyer, jr.. and former Con.
gressman Frank w. Mondell, de-
feated candidate for the United
States Senate, is touring the North
west, telling bankers and business
men that every day in every way
the bankrupt wheat farmers in that
section are growing richer and
richer-in fact, that as q result Of
the benevolent attitude and foster.
ing care of the Republican Admin |
istration, the farmers have at last
come into their own
Quotes Meyers Statement.
Eugene Meyer is quoted to have
said in a speech at Billings, Mont,
the following: 7 have been in Mon
tana q good many times, have stud
led conditions here, and know much
about the State. The President is
interested in knowing the facts and
getting reports from the people.
spent three months in Europe be-
fore the price Of wheat dropped.
studying what could be done.
went to every big wheat-buying GEN.
ter in Europe. ! met bankers,
wheat dealers, and even the millers
and bakers. I found that anybody
who wants to buy wheat is able to
do so.'"
Senator Wheeler continued: "Of
course the bankers, the wheat
dealers, the millers and the bakers
are able to buy all the wheat they
want. But I would like Mr.. Meyer
to tell how the million and a half
unemployed in England, the hundred
of thousands in Germany, Austria
and in Central Europe, who are
literally starving, are able to buy all
the wheat bread they want. The
stupid foreign policy of the Repub-
Hcan Administration, combined with
the ridiculously high Republican
tariff wall, is preveting foreign coun-
tries exchanging their manufactured
products for our raw products, such
as wheat and flour.
''It night interest Mr.. Meyer and
Mr.. MondeIl to know that exports Of
farm products from the Unitea
States steadily decreased during the
first eight months of this year, as
compared with the same period last
year, and this in the face Of the
statement by Mr.. Meyer that the
bankers, grain dealers, millers and
bakers of Europe can buy all the
wheat they want.
Logical Holder of Wheat.
"Mr. Meyer is reported to have
said further, Who is going to hold
the wheat? The farmer is not ac-
customed to hold it. No one wants
to carry the wheat. There is just
one place supposed to carry wheat,
and that is the speculator; but are
they here in sufficient numbers TO
carry the stocks? claim thew are
not big enough to hold the crops
dumped on the market. VINO is
going to carry the wheat. then?
1.-The logical fellow to hold the