The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-07
.,.atinued from page one)

Gradual change of base here in Mon
tana'. ,os been the immutable law
IIls .n H; conditions in agriculture
Of cna irao the tide of immigration
ever Sii' aver the passes of the Ale
poured G ;nto the Mississippi valley
gng 5 then pushed farther west t onto
ana I Great : Plains and up to the 1901
hI, Is. u famous mo- wheat fields of Califor-
Inc nee I@l now passed into history, with
MA nav farming following in their
wake. ouo If tbe fact that
-, tiV YEAR and this Montana VIII nave
last yea yea Seventv-five million bushels
P.Ou n%oot the far-seeing man OF TO-
o. VIII" IooT7ps that Montana has proba-
day roocbed its high peak of wheat
Oily , rC last year and this and that
9.o4 trsnd of the future will be toward
u .nrsrbeets. dairy products, Sheep cat
~ hogs and poultry.
uT Tho .oI economic laws that have meV-
ao iIv worked this change IN every
paw If the older states will of a GER
. gtv " nroduce the same results here
\; ;a| Montana, slowly but surely. :.
III T 1To has always been the one big
If the early settler, the new land
Eonosteader, and has then invariably
n;rar wav to the more profitable re-
s,r , from diversified agriculture.
In the canning centers in the Gala.
.;r ond Bitter Root, where peas anC
hons ta- O,' and cabbage ad strawberrie'
ore being canned by the ten Thousand
aaSas This year, you find no cause o
.amnlaint as to prosperous farm con
dtiOns. NJ,
tsna that is not true. We resent a
eigtby-five cent wheat market a
sgainst one dollar and twent cent
one and two years ago. l sold som
partnership wheat the other day fo
.enyenty-eight cents-agalnst my be-
ter Judgment. This year and last, W
sold our wool for forty cents and OF
lambs for eleven cents, and the sheel
men are smoking two-bit cigars.
This year, long two-year-old Ste
brings the rancher ninety dollars al
he is happy.
The sugarbeet farmers over in tt
Bitter Root and MissOula valleys e
pect under their contracts from sc
enty-five to one hundred dollar p
acre for their crops, and they a
smiling. But the wheat farmer has
big crop and a low price and is n
in a happy frame of mind.
On the other hand, some of the p
iticians are cOrrespondingly jOyo
over the wheat farmers tempora
predicament and are industrious
trying to capitalize his discOmfitl
for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
They are joyous in citing the pr
ent temporary low price of whe
forgetting the past.
And let me now say in passing a
Woodrow Wilson, in the official
ton of his speeches lat Chicago S
that Herbert Hoover did not fix
price Of wheat during the war, that
refused to even become a MEMBER
the price fixing committee appon
by President Wilson, that he haG
tnng whatever to do with it and
served as food administrator.
The wheat farmer has never
such wagonloads of free advice
farm relief" unloaded on him as
ing the past few months.
Farm relief" has been made
football of party politics, with m
3 Of the participants IN the game m
iy irving to play for position.
During the past two years, we
heard hluch of the famous Men
Haugen bill as a specific measur
relieve the farmer. Nearly every
seemed to be in agremnt as to
most of its provisions. The one
bone of contention and around v
the battle ragged the fiercest wa:
famous equalization fee" Pres
II coolidge said openly that he v
Ue glad to sign the bill, as passe
81 congress, if the equalization
was eliminated.
But Its leading proponents ins
ua' the equalization fee" be in
euIthat or nothing.
AS have been given to under
many Of the farm organization
ne country were divided in OF
Iegardlng it. The National G
was opposed to the equalization
a. as We're the Wisconsin Dairymer
5 o,.: and some of the Cali.
agricultural groups.
tos me OF the Idaho senator's,
~ ;Or bOrah, was opposed, and the
favor. ianVor; one of our Montana Sc
' nv 1Sr 1t and one againsa it.
izss ie Dill, as passed with the
dow tOn lee was vetoed by the
h. n. and congress sustained |
DOI;. is! was exactly what some
ppOnocians wanted. IN order N
hdiayta :, issue and permit Il
avri t. me president as an enc
Then, after he was nominate
a. Smith, who has been beral
c sr only real friend of agri,
IN" e q cut with a statement co
mo I p0 equalization fee and
bert ru1esldent Coolidge's veto
Hevo hoover is reported to a
norio uISt the equalization fee
actual practice N''U ana unwOri
Of 1 fbo SO the matter now stan,
ODpoS;,ss presidential candidates
"eouaii1oHt. to the much ts
ed TT aE57atiOn fee" of the now
1%cNary-Haugen bill.