The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-18
Bv William BOuck.

Dy W OOA~hs
Congress is just now in the throes
of another sham battle.
The daily and weekly propaganda
press of the country is paving the
air and throwing dust in the farm
ers' eyes.
They are much interested pro and
con in this years crop of bunk to
peddle to the farmers.
The very latest "Mumba-Jumba" is
the so-called "New McNary-Haugen'
bill. Is it any good? will it be OF
any service to the farmers?
Well, first go back few years.
About $3.50 years ago congress and
the propaganda machines OF the
country woke up and helped US far
mers get the railroads regulated, and
thew passed the law creating the
Interstate Commerce Commission"
from which has descended a whole
crop of so-called regulatory meas
ures. Is or has it helped the farmer
We rather CUES not, with big N.
Then we farmers were persuaded
by our friends that we needed help
financial this time-so congress got
busy. Our friends kicked up another
dust-screen, and we got the Federal
Farm CD Loan System, from which
has descended some of the most
vicious laws creating farm loan banks
and other monstrosities.
Is the Farm Loan System any hell
to the farmer today? Ask some fel
low in it. Now, we have tariffs OF
wheat and a whole lot more of sucl
functions which our money grabbing
friends said we needed-and do the.
help US? To say they do is to Great
a laugh among group of farmers.
Then we got a law regulating tn
packers in the supposed interest o
the farmers-and the great and bene
VIOLENT Secretary of Agriculture
the one whose judgment is made sU
preme in the enforcement of its pre-
visions. Is that law operating IN ia
vor of hog and stock raisers? n
intelligent farmer says or thinks S
Now the farmer is much lower
the economic scale than ever befor
He is rapidly progressing down
CREASED toboggan, and his friends a
going to admisister another strengt
ening pill, with plenty of Opiate f,
his mind. It's called the "New M
Nary-Haugen" bill and is being 81
emnly debated in congress and o.
as a real effort to help the farme
Briefly, let's examine its provi
sions. 1t proposes to establish boa
to handle the surplus CD produc
of the farmers of the u. S.
Here's how the board is to be a
pointed:
One from each Federal Reser
District in the country.
How appointed? By the presidel
A committee of five from each d
trict, elected by a convention of fal
organizations, chosen by the Sec
tary of Agriculture as representa-
of the farmers?
One knows what kind of farm
CARNATIONS Jardine would choose.
This committee of 5 selects a co
mittee of from which the presid
selects one. Same old bunk.
The surplus is handled or stored
sold thru farm co-operatives, or 81
other agencies CD as the board n
choose! 1t does not in the least 2
pose to disturb the present gambl
in farm produce.
This surplus is always a "my
cal" proposition. 1t can't be me
ured-nor its effect on markets
instance-at this writing, Feb, 1
wheat is low, about $1.15 to 81
over the northwest, below cost of !
duction at least 25 cents per bush
Yet there is no surplus.
1t appropriates $50 million dol
as a revaluing fund for the boarC
do business with.
Its results, if passed, will be to
spectators - Bears and Bulls =
gauge the exact measure of or
and other farmers produce,
thereby make it that much easie
depress the price to the farmer
raise the price to the consumer.
so much more opium for the far
It's the same old billy goat. It's W
than nothing because it create
hope in the farmers mind onl!
dash it to pieces and leave him I
discouraged.