The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-11
COOLIDGE ACTION
PLEASES GROWERS
EXPECT RESULTS FROM VISIT
OF MYERS AND MONDELL
TO NORTHWEST

That the wheat growing farmers
of the State of Montana are looking
for great good to come from the
proposed visit of Mr.. Myers and Mr..
Mondell to the Northwest, is quite
generally agreed. Dwight R. Cresap
president of the Montana Wheat
Growers Association, in an interview
shortly after receiving the news
from Washington expressed salts
faction, and a hope that much good
would result.
Favors As Cent Tariff
eve are glad indeed sair Mr..
Cresap, that President Coolidge is
giving the problems of the wheat
growers the consideration which the
Importance of the industry deserves.
We understand that the president is
very favorable to raising the tariff
duty on wheat coming into this coun-
try from Canada, from its present
level of 80 cents up to As cents per
bushel"
"If this action is taken soon," Mr..
Cresap continued, ''many wheat
farmers may be encouraged to stay
on their farms who otherwise will
doubtless leave the state. Montana
farmers this year have raised one
sixteenth of the entire wheat crop
of the United States. Three-fourths
of this is hard spring wheat of the
highest milling quality. 1t is sensi- |
BILE and just to give these pioneer
farmers proper tariff protection
rather than to have their farms
abandoned, thereby forcing the
drawing of our hard wheat supply
from Canada.
GAS an encouragement to Mr.. Coo
lidge, various organizations of busi-
ness men, as well as of the farmers,
should be active in urging the neces-
sity and Justice of increasing the tar
iff protection materially now. The
wheat growers need to be given i'm
mediate concrete assurance that it
will be worth while for them to con-
tinue to produce wheat in sufficient
quantity to prevent eventual impor-
tation.
Mont. Wheat In Demand
'"The character of wheat produc-
ed in Montana is such that there is !,
a consumptive demand for all that
.an be produced, at prices which will t
.efiect decent return to the grower. {
t takes two seasons of a farmers {
lard work and time to produce it. Fc
rhe ground must be summer fallow- I
ID for a full season, thus rendering J
,ne-half of the Montana wheat grow
rs acreage out of reach Of lmme- Z
late income all of the time. There t
re places in the country where 1T t
night pay to talk of a reduction In s
creage. But not so in Montana. t
There is already shortage of hard t
Milling wheat in this country, and t
With proper protection the grower
f that hard wheat could be kept on t
he job with profit to ALL" y
Should Wire President v
eve have sent the following tele- h
ram to the President: lv
President Coolidge, a
d. c. {
We urge the justice and prudence
raising the tariff on wheat to at b
,ast as cents now, otherwise hun C
reds of our farms will be abandon II
and we will be compelled to draw O
ur hard wheat supplies from Can II
da. We commend your action in p
ending Representatives to our state
, aid us in perfecting our cooperat- p
e marketing organization.
sDwight r. Cresap, Pres.
Montana Wheat Growers Assn" "a
1t would be we'll for commercial
nd farm organizations throughout :,
lie state to wire to the president "
nd to our representatives along this
lme line, as this is the most effect
e way we have of conveying our :. ,,.
iches in the matter vi