The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-02-03

iZe, Marie Hill. Hope Dryden and
senate committee on agriculture
Frazier, Shipstead, and Wheeler
On the house side conservative
republicans are in control, and
the house committee on agricul
ture is loaded against us. One
prominent member of the house
committee on agriculture, Fort OF
New Jersey, represents a district
in which there is not a single
farmer, and yet Fort is the MAI
who does the most talking in the
sessions of the committee.
Solidly arrayed against the Nc,
Nary-Haugen Bill are the political
forces back of Herbert Hoover,
the milling interests represented
by Sydney Anderson, n time
Congressman from Minnesota, the
grain trade represented by d. D.
Tenney of Minneapolis, and the
powerful cotton exchanges deal
ing and specializing in cotton.
Our barrier at Washington is
this house committee on Agricul-
ture, composed of t%wenty-one
members. Individual members OF
Congress are ~powerless to act
until a report comes out of this
committee.
Probably we have our oppon-
ents checkmated. for if the House
committee reports any other than
the McNary-Haugen Bill, the SEN
ate will probably report u bill
and pass it. Our big job at Wash
ington is to pass the McNary-
Haugen bill, and if we cannot do
that, then prevent the passage of
any other bill.
This is the right thing to do in
the opinion of all the farm organi-
zation leaders who are connected
with organizations of actual farm
ers producing grain, live stock,
cotton, tobacco and rice. No other
bill proposed by any one will do
any of these three things:
LIST. Help build marketing or
CARNATIONS.
End. Make the tariff effective.
3rd. Raise the general level of
farm commodity prices.
Vice-President Dawes states the
farm problem to the writer re-
Gently in as plain, short, and sim
pie language as it can be stated.
'The farmer" said Mr.. Dawes,
buys at retail on a domestic
price basis which is made higher
by the tariff will on manufactured
goods which the farmer uses, and
by labor protected by an immigra-
ton wall. The farmer sells at
wholesale prices on a world basis.
What the farmer needs is legisla-
ton to make the tariff effective
for him, and organization SO he
can sell collectively with collec-
tive power to bargain for price, in
stead of individually, with no
power as an individual to have
any say about what the prices of
his products shall be-"
The McNary-Haugen bill backed
by effective organization of farm
ers will solve the farm problem in
the United States, because it will
advance the price level of farm
products to correspond with the
of freight, manufactured
labor, and bank interest,
all of which are now favored by
legislation plus effective
organization.
The farm organizations are
making a great fight at Washing
ION. The Corn Belt federation is
represented by F. w. Murphy,
chairman of our legislative COM
who had headquarters at
The Hamilton hotel, Washington,
D.. C.
We are raising funds for this
by an assessment on our
organization treasures n
by voluntary contributions Farm
ers and rural business men OF the
northwest, this is your fight. You
IAN help by writing or wiring your
congressman urging action, ana
by contributing to our delehse
'und. Contributions from Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota,
may be sent to A. W. Kicker, 4oo
Guardian Life Bldg, ST. Paul
contributions should be
to C. B. Steward, Lincoln,