The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-27

true farm situation and that the farm
er cannot change his business or pick
up and leave even though he pays
the full freight both ways and they
would no doubt espouse the cause OF
the farmer for much needed legisia-
ton if the matter of railway financ-
ing from time to time did not come
from the East where policies are die
tated. Their pointing out that there
is no need of Equality legislation for
the farmer is not in keeping with the
increase of 57%o in railroad rates ov-
er 1918.
Likewise a group of officials of the
American Society of Agricultural En-
gineers, of which the International
Harvester Company (whose stock
more than doubled in price in sixteen
months); the j. |. Case Threshing
Machine Company; and the Iowa
Railway and Electric Company, pub
lie utility, were represented, visited
the Black Hills with their panacea
for the farmers ailment.
The first two are a group having
monopoly of the implement bust
ness ana price their own products.
The latter groups up and promotes
light, power, etc, properties under
franchise on which a friendly COM
mission places a valuation, a return
on which frequently becomes an IN
due burden to the using public. The
suggestions from these people are
very misleading and purely propa-
ganda. Arthur Huntington, of the
Iowa Railway and Electric Company,
said: "Many farmers are So ineffi-
cient they can't possibly earn a liv-
ing. They are the ones who produce
the surplus that muddles the entire
agricultural situation" This is all
tOmmy-rot.
Even some of our supposedly friend
ly farm magazines published in the
industrial East are filled with mis-
leading articles on agriculture which
is more propaganda to befuddle the
minds of their readers. A long the
paid writer's contributing such arti-
clcs are: James E. Boyle, Professor
of Rural Economy, Cornell Univer-
SHY; Kaufman and Garet Garrett
ana even Patten, in the Saturday
Evening Postal propaganda.
Your attention is calie. to such
cases as in Golfers April 9, 1927
editorial: GIVE the falmer his due
or he'll take it" Farm legislation)
Here legislation is advised. October
p, 1927, editorial in Golfers: "His
salvation lies not in laws but in APP
plying to his work the marvellous pow
er which in every field science Is
making available" Apparently the
purchase Of more big powered ma
chinery is intended. This does no
substantiate the story OF tic man en-
g4ged in an intensified farming on hi.
20 acres so frequently pointed out a
browning success in agriculture, D.;
short time ago. Of course, the farm
er knows this is some more propagan
da.
Quotes The Journal
The Minneapolis Journal, July PC
1923, says, evidently with the tariff
in mind: eff this can be done TO
the manufacturer, he (tlla farmer
does not see why it cannot he dom
for him on his product. Congress ha
provided him with a tariff on grain
but this tariff is non-effective, be
cause there is a surplus to sell in tn
j world market. Liverpool fines tn
price of this surplus, hence the farm
or gets no benefit. There should b
way out He does not war; to b
treated any differently than his fel
lows in business are treated but h
; wants to be treated as we'll as the
are treated" For some time past III
Minneapolis Journal has fought thi
: very thing above advocated.
A surplus should be blessing, no
curse. There is no such thing a
world surplus or destruction of non
perishable products now or in tn
years past. 1t is not only common
sense but good business to have
/, plenty and to thank the good Lor
for same, and as in the past marke
! the surplus in the countries of tn
, world to a people who cannot and d
| not produce sufficient to take care c
: their own needs SO will gladly bu
{ what we may have to sell and thi
r would not be dumping either.
5 One hundred leading stock com
t panies in the United States hav
f gained 81, 100000 since Januar
= |, 1927, for a nine months perioC
b Some of the profits of As industris
: companies at least, is due to tn
: motherly care which gOvernmen
> throws around such little chickens a
the United States Steel Corporatio
and International Harvester Compa
D ny. The six and one-half millio
: farmers are merely asking for
e legislative act to combine them 5
4 they, too, may obtain the benefits O
5 an effective tariff.
e Distressed lands amounting 70 tw
: billions of dollars, according to tn
S government, in the hands of absente
|. ana unwilling landlords such as tn
e state, the Farm Land Bank, Life Ir
surance Companies, Trust Companie,
etc. TO say nothing of the unfortur
ate individual who bought a far
mortgage as a gilt edge Investment
IS truly a deplorable situation. Tn
borrower having lost his all and III
want. -i0 U09S III
About two years ago the Denart
ment of Agriculture made the STAT
ment that the average value of far,
ia IN In The United States is 2O96 be
low pre- War average, the New Enc
land States holding their own and
some instances showing a slight az
vance (due no doubt to small farm
ana ready local market for tbei
products in the big market centers
lakes on farm lands in the Unite
SGates are 1860 higher than 191:
LII. In the Ninth Federal Resery
DlsIrlct taxes on farm lands have II
creased l46% over 1913-1914 taxe
ms is true of the Middle West an