Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-04-17
THAT PAIN m our NORTHWEST.


recent Saturday Evening Post Garet Garrett has Ium
lasting article entitled "he Northwest which is
conay the standpoint of Republican who is seek
ing find apathec administration but as an IL
nator been greater than single candle power
30 get far.
To sum up his article whole of the pain in the
northwest the himself with possibly touch Of the
During times the farmer should have foreseen that the
unfavoae and should have turned deaf
to the wheat Left to the law OF
supply and demand which he cites the cause OF the present low
price of wheat the price would have scared during the
price received for his product would have
compensated him his labor though he harvested only
crop the lawmakers at Washington Democrats in the
majority did the price of wheat and they fixed
price thus rbng the farmer of what the law of supply and
demand would surely have given him.
The over prices manufactured articles began fall
prices products dropped unprecedented level in
comparison the price machinery and the of labor The
manufacturers legislative body and
protective tariffs high enough protect all American
manufacturers tariff placed upon wheat but in this bill
in the interest of the manufacturing mers
the rebate joker which practically nues its effectiveness and
places the farmer in competition with the whole world while the
manufacturer protected The whole scheme of the tar
system protection for the moneyed interests while
the farmer is the prey of every special interest.
Recently the tariff wheat increased but the joker
still there the effect of the increase is nothing
and be paid in cash and has been the
problem the find cash crop which be sold
before time fair price and which viii yield sufficient cash
to pay off these urgent demands.
most places in Montana butter cream eggs poultry
with perhaps porkers living the
be sold sufficient quantities furnish the cash required Then
the time the shipment of his cattle to the
Chicago market to strike that market when isn't guttedHs
grain viii be sold low because grain buyer the state knows
that the farmer must have In other words the farmer
placing his each time 20 to shot and twenty times
he gets beaten He playing poker against stacked cards.
cold decks, dealing second and slipping the cut.
In Montana many ranches suited be dairy ranches
Too far from market bad roads, insufficient water heavy
prevailing winds and sudden changes climate Under these
ditons the rancher raise grain he farms at ALL
In the Belt Valley there is hardly ranch where they have
pracced diversified farming for twenty years scarcely
ranch where there stock cattle hogs dairy cattle chick
geese turkeys etc. still with the markets they are
farmers have had difficult time get by during the past
few years
Doubtless Mr. Garrett visited the triangle but conditions
there not typical of the state and while the lot of those ranch
has been absolute ruin the lot of splendid farmers Of
the favored portions of the state purebed
dairy cattle the usual thing where purebred hogs high
being fattned every RANCH where there
ce month and wheat raised only safeguard should
The markets for other produce fall
only rigid and long hours work lifting them of
the shadow of the indebtedness brought by conditions
The farmer does not need help except the absorption his
into long term debentures With this an even
reak with the manufacturing districts will emerge right
to protect and increase the price of evyhng the
he world considered just The Mr. describes
trained the of money years stealing
of the west The government which will send
ack to Of the billions which the conditions shifted
the west to the east and which many people suspect
ally came to rest in profteer's pocket.