The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-01
SPEAKER URGES.
F AR M AID IN.
ADDRESS HERE.
Secretary CT Peoples Recon
struction League Flags
MELONS, Tax Plan

teprat!ng, while agriculture j. DIS
the American Federation Of Labor
is only about two-thirds of what 1T
was at the post war peak Benjamin
{. Marsh Of Washington, ID. e., exc
cutive secretary Of the Peoples E'-
construction League, tn" 'feopI"
Lobby at the national capital, sand
in an address last night on the court
house lawn.
Mr.. Marsh, who is making a tour
of the country in The interest Of
arousing IA demand for farm lcgtaIa-
s.on spoke TO a large crowd.
"The plight Of agriculture cOlnpcl&
very careful consideration Of nation
al legslution' Mr.. Marsh said
Hits MELONS, Plan
THE Mellon su-cai!cu TAX rcduc-
ton plan ignores tn" vast majority
of the American people. % per cent
u them with incomes below 5000
/. j. an effort to untaX the rich, and
compel the common people to pay
not only the current costs of federal
government, bat the cost Of the war.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon,
wants to repeal the federal estate
tax Every year four to five bll-
lions Of dollars, chiefly in large
sums, passes by device No state
can collect heavy inheritance or
estate tax, and no state should.
Nearly all great fortunes were de
rived from over the nation, and
many internationally.
"Of the nearly eight billion dol
lars spent annually by federal, state
and local governments. almost three
quarters falls on farmers, wage earn
ers and others too poor to be liable
to the income tax. and costs them
double what the government receives,
or about eleven billion dollars a
wear. Surfaces on incomes and the
federal estate tax must be retained.
One per cent of the population has
nearly fifteen per cent Of the ma
tional income.
"Our american tax reduction
plan is 20 repeal the D0,OO0.OUU Of
internal revenue taxes on tobacco.
admissions to movies. shows and
clubs. on automobiles and parts
thereof, which are chiefly paid by
those with incomes Of less than
$1,000,
Packers Seek Monopoly
"The Big -Four Meat Packers. doing
business Of two billion dollars !;
year, are the largest food combine in
the world, and do two-thirds of the
business done by 49i meat packing
concerns. They are trying TO have
the packers consent decree, which
kept them out of unrelated lines
r"i sid" 9" they can a"lin eatab-
-, Il, |, Ian,
.r.,>s lhey own most of the stock
yards and nine tcnthS of the retrig
orator cars, and are virtually i'm
mune from any government rcgula
ton, so they can at will break every
cooperative association in the ma
zion.
Legislation must be enacted t
compel the meat packers to dives
themselves of ownership Of stock
yards and refrigerator cars, an'
vesting administration of the mea
packing industry in the federal trad
commiv";on. which can be made t,
serve the people as in the past.
IL KS on ..haruinctur"d product
must be reduced. for the presen
protective tariff policy is brecdin,
war, smashing the foreign market
for farm products. fostering inctfi
cheney and protiteering and costn,
farmers and wage earners at ieas
two billion dollars a year Farmer
put at least seven dollars into thu
protection pool for every dollar the.
can take out and wages are loves
in most highly protected industries
an 1922, the surplus and undivid
ed profits Of manufacturers of wool
en- and worsted goods were SIT ,S22,
946 of manufacturers of cottoI
goods, $33l,57O.8l5, while manufac
turers of metals and metal good
paid in dividends in 1922 $S50,3l5,
90
Tariff Gold Brick
The president refuses to instruc
the L. S. tariff commission. although
he has packed it with tools of high
ly protected manufacturers to inves
tigate the cotton. wool and meta
tariff schedules Farmers show thci
production costs Manufacturer
won't, which proves the tariff a gol'
brick for farmers.
"There are at least million to-
many farmers producing themselve
into poverty and widespread unem
ployment, but in spite of this tn,
not "licn immigration in 1924 wa
GG2,772, the largest with three ex
ceptions in our history, and thi
year the net alien immigration il
estimated at about half a million
We are being flooded with MeXica,
poems taking jobs at Sl.25 da.
which morally belong to American
at American wages. In 1910. 3d.
per cent Of the population over tel
years of age were on farms. BY 1872
it had fallen from onethird to abou
one-fourth,- 26.7 per cent. and
per cent is ample. We should shu
off immigration completely for 4
least five yelrs. if we are to hav
peaceful adjustment of man powe
from farms to other industries
Every alien immigrant into the Unit
ed States is an understandable inter
ference with our internal affairs.
1.-THE federal government must pa
off part Of the debt incurred b
wheat growers during and since tn
war, due to government keeping tn
price down. Otherwise we shal
have another epidemic of bank fail
nres. That price fixing cost %hea
growers about ,50O.000,0O0.
should be stimulated that improve
ments on land in states where sue
payments are made TO wheat grow
ers, should be exempted from tax;
ton, so wheat growers. not Ian
spectators, would get the benefit.
Farm, LegislatiOn
"Congress should create govern
ment marketing cornoration I
handle staple farm products, to &C
as shock absorber, when there ar
severe fluctuations, and must Great
a system of crop insurance, to whic
the Federal Government contributes
"Ford is too good and Morgan to
bad, to get Muscle Shoals. 1t an
all water power belong to the pee
pie and congress must create a pull
iicly owned giant power system.
"Congress must enact legislatio
definitely giving farmers the leg:
right to limit production to the d.
rnand at q fair nricaO