Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-08-01
FARMER is IN TROUBLE
Cannot Get Sufficient Aid to
Handle Crops Price Has
Dropped on Commodities.

- AiiAiSs 41OIH all over
the country show that the farme,
IS again in a bad way. He doesn,t
Know what to do. Now, he cannot
get sufficient aid to help harvest
the crops. The other day, wheat
dronped below the dollar mark Il
IS now somewhere around there
trlfie higher or trife lower. IFS
swinging in the balance. The til
Ter of the soil is grumblinp and
ne has perfect right to prumble
The local labor bureau yolun-
teers the information that it seems
almost impossible to induce labor
to so to the farm. The following.
dispatch from Madison quoting,
the labor bureau employment head
there IS worthy of note:
Farmers do not need loans:
they need reduction of expenses.
Their taxes are much too high
and prices Of farm products are
too low. There's something wrong
when they get six cents for a
watermelon that is sold to the
consumer at more than a dollar.
Loans are of no value to them
when they cannot make enough to
pay interest. They only run them
deeper into debt. Their expenses
are so high that farming no long
er pays dividends. Taxes ON a 100
acre farm in Waukesha county
with which | am familiar, have in
creased from $40 TO $500 in the
last thirty years. And For Sale
signs are to be seen on farms all
over the state.
Farmers are offering fifty and
sixty dollars a month for laborers,
but are unable to get them. have
placed twenty-four during the first
three days this week, but that
doesn't scratch the surface of the
requests for help Wausau Record
Herald.
And on top of this, The Chicago
Journal of Commerce says:
This unfortunate condition of
the farmer has brought in its wake
a great horde of political demago-
CUES, professional agitators, and
sincere, but misguided, zealots who
are constantly projecting their I'M
intelligent and uniformed views
as panacea for all the ills of the
producer. The politician and az
ltator attempt to capitalize dis
content and unhappiness for their
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The I'M
informed, but sincere, friend of
the farmer is constantly presenting
plans possessing no utility value
Both classes have centered their
fire on the grain marketing sys-
tenn, the one activity which should
be deservedly free from criticism
and the only sevice rendered the
farmer which is handled at a NOM
inal toll.
"The farmers real distress can
be stated in a sentence-he is suf-
fering from restricted markets be-
cause of the financial breakdown
of peoples and countries who nor
mally buy his surplus
What is the solution for this
vexing problem?
Just as sure as the world is, the
farmer is going to curb production
next year. He is not going to be
foolish enough to SOW crop that
he and his personal family cannot
reap. 1t is a shame-it is sin
to let crops rot in the field. Amer
lea garden of the whole world
must not permit such thing.
Business and industry on the
whole are dependent on the far
mer's friends at all times; the rank
and file cannot help that the
wheat market jumps around at
times.
Right now, it might be we'll for
every Chamber Of Commerce in
every community III the county, to
take glance at the farmer S
plight. And if he is unable to get
the necessary help to reap his
crops, then perhaps these cham
bers can help solve the problem
temporarily at least each in its