The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-06-21
Farm Relief Wall Street Brand

setting up for themselves the highest r,
Tariff IN the history of the country. u
The issue for the first time has been a
completely clarified. The issue of the s
debenture, the word itself, is destined
to play an important role in Ameri- d
can history. 5
The Farm Relief Bill as passed by t
the House follows almost word for v
word the testimony given before the
House Agriculture Committee by Fred
b. Wells the head of one of the larg I
est grain elevator firms in the coun-
try the Peavey Company, one of the s
moving concerns in the National Asso-
;iatiOn of Elevator Operators which
maintain headquarters and a power
full lobby in Washington. Mr.. Sid
ney B. Anderson, formerly member
of Congress land of its Agriculture ;
Committee, now the president of the
National Elevator Association testi-
fled before the Senate Agriculture
Committee. 1t is significant that
while the Senate Bill did not follow
as closely the demands of the grain
levators as did the House Bill, the
provision in the House Bill which fav-
ored existing grain elevators and
marketing facilities as against new
cooperative organizations, and which
was stricken out by the Senate, has
been reinstated by the Conferees.. 1t |
is equally we'll known here that the
appointments which President Hoover
is to make to the Federal Farm Board |
will have the approval of the Mime
apolis and Chicago grain ring. This
ring has already got control of prac
tically the whole carry over of wheat
and it is now depressing the market
to buy up this years surplus at rec
ord low levels. Whatever influence the
new Farm Bill hay have towards
} raising prices-and 1t may operate to
some degree-will then react to the
benefit of the elevator ring. This
, group through its close association
: with administration headquarters has
been able to secure advance informa-
ton of various sorts during the past
two weeks which have already Melted
: it millions. Among these was the
'leak" that Hoover was to send Red
S Cross representatives to China to con-
n slider the possibility of sending wheat
TO thaC country.
This is the time for some plain
n speaking to the thirty odd millions of
: American farmers most of whom
e have looked to Washington and to
r the new administration for relief. 1t
e is doubly the duty of newspapers cor
n respondents to speak forth Since the
u chosen representatives of the farm
II ers have been so much a part of the
g great fraud that has been put over
Is on them. The whole business has
he been a piece of political legerdemain
IS When the agricultural issue became
i so acute five or six years ago thai
IN the industrial and financial interest!
,e saw that it could no longer be 81
III fenced, they took possession of thu
G movement and put their own trustee
&c henchmen at the head of it, men lik
In Haugen, McNary, Capper, Borah an,
at others. This is time honored de
TO vice of politicians. There comes t.
ell mind another striking instance. Whe
IS the movement for Workingmen's Com
re- -.lsation became so strong in Ne,
ir- York State that it could no longer b
OF resisted, the National Association c
Manufacturers, the large open sho
lc- organization of Big Business, too
ne possession of the movement and il
up supporters in the State Legislator
On wrote their own bill. They have sine
set boasted of this accomplishment. Tn
la New York Workmen'S COMPENSATE
ne Law is hardly worth hill of beans
Ils The same has happened to the FAR
ne Relief Bill. 1t has been written b
at the enemies of the farmers and the
lie henchmen in Congress. Perhaps tn
we characterization Of such men as M
u.s. Nary and Capper may appear a
n C. harsh. Let it be noted then that b
me sides the deal just put over by the
les N connection with the Conference r
leu port, these same gentlemen voted Fl
llu Lenroot In the secret vote at the r
au cent much discussed executive sc
VI sion. They further voted only la
III Friday to confirm the appointment
nu- Joseph P. Cotton, former counsel
ohe Doheny to be Under-Secretary
Us State. This took place in another S
'ne cret session. The confirmation
Cotton was earlier pushed through
en- n none other than the great god Bor
nc himself. 1t was later recalled a.
finally pushed through in an exec
low tive session. During the war, Colt
mel served under Hoover as head of o
Tor division of the Food Administered
[iu- and his work met with the most
In ter opposition from the farming 81
WIN tions. His acts so favored the G.
by cage packers that formal complai
De- was made before the Senate Afric
zen ture Committee. This man, McNa
70 and Capper, Borah and other so-cs
the ed farmers representatives, appro
III without a turn of hair.
is The farmers have been deceived a
SEN defeated by the same interests VIII
'uid ave been in control of the COVE
the ment since the Civil War. The p
tne gram of this group is to industrial
re- agriculture. They have no interest
Win maintaining the individual farm
lVof During the course of the debate S
ouio urday, Republican leader Watson
MY Indiana SO far forgot himself as
.ner say, praising the Administration Fa
pos Bill: at is fine Bill. We will ma
ar great MANUFACTURING indus
200 of agriculture"
eea This is their program, industri;
~ zation of agriculture, a colony
i1s Big Business. The farmer should
nan = H. so be for the disqualification of
~ riculture but not under the regime
ene Wall Street.