White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-30
DOES MIR. BRISBANE NO CREDIT

Who will supply the food for the
nation ten years hence? Would it
not he wise TO let in agricultural
immigrants that our laws shut out
8 = Foreign farmers should be
admitted-o:herwise the millions
of farmers drifting to the cities will
starve with the rest of us.
This is a quotation from Arthur
Brisbane, but it does not do Mr.. Bris'
bane credit.
Less than 10 per cent of the for
eigners applying for admission are
farmers. The rest of them are rush
ing to cities and entering factory or
other employment, many of them be-
ing traders, small merchants and
others who in centuries OF practlce
have lived upon their wits
The effect is that instead of allevi-
ating an alleged i'll immigration only
aggravates it Bringing more for
eignars into the United States, ac-
cording to the deduction from Mr..
Brisbane's remarks that is perfectly
fair, will increase the millions to
starve, rather than feed any millions
that are here and would starve in a
smaller company
If immigration conditions were as
they were thirty to forty years ago,
when the bulk Of the immigrants
were from Ireland, Germany and the
Scandinavian states, the argument
would be good. But no amount OF
argument will make black appear to
be white, or change a hollow into a
hill.
If Mr.. Brisbane can show that the
laws are shutting out farmers who
wish to come in, he will have a leg
to stand on He fails to show or make
a pretense of showing that the farm
ing class is applying for entry. His
argument is based on a palpably
false premise, amounting to none at
all.
There is no need to worry about
anybody starving ten years hence.
The laws of compensation Will at
tend to that. Today there is a vast
overproduction with low prices for
products and the main reason why
men quit farming and move to The
cities is because of the better re-
Enumeration in city employment. As
time progresses and lorg before the
alleged starvation era arrives this
condition will right itself. If farm
products really become less than the
J1@ao-l fA, YL1, -, -nta4, mill no ,,D
and keep going up until the people
will be attracted back to the farm,
called thither by the chance to make
money where now there is none.
Look, for instance, at today S beef
prices. What ground therein is there
for this starvation talk. 1t is mere
poppycock. Beef is go plentiful and
so low in price that it cannot be more
than given away. 1t is but item
of many. Some products which hap
pen to be scarce or fashionable to eat
bring a good price, hut they are the
exception. When in that respect
things become normal then will
there be plerty to keep Mr.. Brisbane's
millions from starving, for there will
be money in its production, hui until
that comes it viii be absurd to ex-
pect farmers to increase prod uction.
be they foreign ones or the ones that
are here and are forced out of bust
ness by present inequalities.
On the other hand, look at he
prices for manufactured goods. Never
ever in war days were prices so high
for anything containing iron ,stee.
or metal OF my kind that the farmer
has to use. From table cutlery to
threshing machines, from ammuni-
ton and guns 70 road graders, prices
have gone crazy. While beef is low
and hides still lower everything
made of leather, from a latigu to 4
harness or from a thong to a pair
of shoes, is as high as ever and no
hope in sight of their ever coming
down.
Whoever imagines that letting in
more foreigners will cure these ills
has a terribly poor UNDERSTAND ding of
economic conditions. In keeping
them out there is some hope, but in
anything else than letting more of
them n.