The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-07-11

planned to wreck the whole crgani-
cation, in which event there would be
no need for any directors. What 9th
er reason can there be? They were
elected for one year. Their terms of
They were all aware of this and yet,
did net make a move to continue on
the board, because they thought that
when they had finished their dirty
work there would be no need for any
board at all.
Second Call Amusing
The calling Of this second primary
is very amusing and will establish a
very unusual precedent. In the fut-
ure. if the directors do not like the
results of a primary election, or if
their own names do not appear on
the ballot, they may simply send out
word to the membership that THERE
WAS NOT SUFFICIENT INTER-
EST SHOWN, or that the MEMBERS
DISPLAYED POOR JUDGMENT in
naming candidates, and then call for
another elections. This new election
system might also spread and revolu-
tioniZe our present political system
1t would be just as fitting for Gov
ernOr Dixon and Attorney General
Rankin to tell the people Of the state
of Montana that the result of the
August primary did not meet with
their approval and then call for a
second primary election on Septem-
Der 1. Is it not a real calamity that
a great organization like the Wheat
Growers should be in the hands of a
man capable of such childish con-
duct?
TRADE Against Nelson
The TRADE of Cresap against Aug.
Nelson, whom he accuses of drum
ming up trade for the equity" and
thereby attempting to take some of
the Montana wheat away from the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce is
conclusive evidence that Cresap's
anxiety for the grain gamblers is one
of his chief considerations at this
time.
Now Chamber Stool Pigeon
When Jewett wrote Cresap a little
over a year ago and told him to lay
off criticizing the Minneapolis grain
gamblers, that letter certainly did
the business. He not only ceased cri-
itching them, but he now defends
them. He also flies into a rage when
anyone comes into the state who
might injure their business interests.
1t is this friendship for the grain
gamblers that is destroying the pow
er and usefulness of the Wheat Pool
in America today. Any man of or
binary human intelligence should be
able to understand this. The purpose
Of the Wheat Pool is to control the
actual wheat to such an extent that
a fair price can be obtained fer it.
1t costs about 10 cents a bushel on
every bushel of pooled wheat in Mon
tana to operate the Montana Wheat
Growers Association. The Associa-
ticn must force the price of wheat
up 10 cents a bushel above what the
farmers would otherwise have receiv-
ed before it will pay it's own way,
and the profit or gain to the farmer
must come to him if at all, upon the
increase in the price above the ten
cents per bushel operating cost. In
other words, if the Association forces
the price of wheat up only 10 cents
a bushel, there is no profit at all ia
the wheat grower as this is all alb
sorbed in the costs of operation. The
only means or power that the Asscr
citation has for forcing the price of
wheat up is its control over the pool
ed wheat. When the Association
joins the board of trade and handles
its grain through the grain gamblers
organization, then the power of the
pool is absolutely destroyed and it is
poWerless to raise the price of wheat
the fraction of enc cent.
Cresap says we must work through
the Minneapolis Chamber of Com
merce because that is where the bio
mlllers come to buy wheat. This Is
a confession of complete surrender. If
the wheat growers associations of
America would leave the grain gamb-
lers absolutely alone the millers would
buy from the associations because
they would have the wheat to sell
That was and is the purpose of the
wheat pool.
Cresap's attitude places him in the
position of a stool-pigeon to the
grain gamblers, and unless the asso-
Citations are taken out of the hands
of men like Jewett and Cresap who
prefer to deal through the grain
gamblers, thereby defeating the pur-
pose of the pool, there is no question
but what complete ruin will come to
the whole pooling system in the near
future.
Farmers will not continue to s,lp-
port the pool at a cost of 10 cents
, a bushel in order to pay Jewett a
prlncely salary Of $4,000 a year un-