The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
REJECT LEAGUE
AS AID FOR
FARMERS
Wheat Conference Sees No
Good for Dirt Rollers in
European TangIe.
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pert OF the United States food al.
rainistration during the war and is
universally recognized as this eoun-
try's supreme scholar in the econo-
mic problems connected with the
growing and distributing Of food
stuffs.
Congressman Anderson of Min
nesota, was in the chair. Governor
Hyde Of Missouri and Governor
Nestos Of North Dakota, and Gov
ernor Preus Of Minnesota, and SenA-
tor Copeland Of New York, and
Senator Capper of Kansas and
President Barrett OF the National
Farmers Union. and President Brad
flute OF the National Farm Bureau
Federation, and a host Of other cele.
brities were on the floor. including
many leaders Of commerce and OF
and Of transportation.
At them, with a fatally convinc.
ing effect, DR.. Taylor shot the
crushing facts regarding the Amer
lean farmers present international
situation. AfterwArd, In state
ment to this writer, DR.. Taylor put
these facts into the following con.
else conclusion:
Europe cannot take, and can
not be made to take, except through
famine, our present SURPRISES Of
wheat. Europe's imports Of wheat
In the period just preceding the
war were approximately five hum
dred and fifty million bushels q
year. She now is importing fully
as much, and more. Her imports
Tor this season seem likely to reach
500 bushels. Yet we have our un-
Difficulty Not Abroad.
'"The difficulty is not in Europe.
The difficulty IL here. In the five
years just before the war our aver.
age wheat acreage In this country
was forty-nine million. In the last
four years 1t has been sixty.five
million.
''our surplus of wheat grown
from that enormously increased
is beyond Europe's peace
time requirements. No settling Of
reparationS. No refunding Of the
debts, no stAbilizing of
no balancing OF Govern.
Europe to take 1t from us.
Moreover, Russia is beginning to
resume its sending Of food stuffs
into Western Europe. Already
Russian rye is beginning to pene-
trate Western Europe and IL being
sold there at price lower than
any that American rye can profit
ably touch.
''The recovery Of Europe will
not mean at this time increased
imports Of wheat from the United
States. It will mean increased
crops Of food stuffs within Europe
Itself and increased and improved
Of the food stuffs
from one part Of Europe to another
We want to export wheat to Europe
on q war time scale. Europe will
buy II on a peace time scale and
from the point Of view OF efficient
economical European reconstruc'
ton.
Land Now Expensive.
Meanwhile, and additionally, our
land has become expensive while
land In Canada, for instance for
wheat purposes. Is still cheap: The
Canadian Pacific railroad will sell
wheat land to you today within
ten miles Of its line, on the fol-
lowing terms: Twenty dollars an
acre and annual payments amount
Ing to never more than per cent
on the purchase price and giving
you the land in full title out Of
these payments In thirty.four years.
at IL going to be cheaper for
to buy the wheat grown on
such land than to buy the wheat
on the expensive land OF
the United States.
'"The way out for the American
wheat farmer is not through Eu-
rope. It is through proportioning
his efforts to the needs Of the
American market. 1t is through
the demand In the
American market for wheat prod
ucts. It is through growing and
selling only those grades of wheat
that will command a satisfactory
price. 1t Is through better control
Of acreage and better control Of
the product from that acreage.
His salvation is not international.
It is domestic" Swayed by the facts
in DR.. Taylor's speech, this confer
ence abstained entirely from all
those recommendations regarding
Europe which have characterized
previous considerations Of the Amer
lean wheat problem. It said moth.
ing about credits to Europe. 1t said
nothing about American political
help in the settling of European ma
tional difficulties. It came here
anxious about Europe.
1t went away abandoning Europe to
her fate and combining itself to rec.
dealing strictly with
internal measures.
The delegates will now. depart to
their homes and carry with them
the facts which they have learned,
and 1t is totally safe to predict that
when Congress meets next winter
the idea of American participation
In European affairs will stand out
on its own merits as a peace idea
and no longer as an agricultural
economic idea. In it's agricultural
aspect, this conference has
killed IL.
(copyr,xht. Washington Press service.)