The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-10-30
DEMOCRATS ATTACK
FARM MARKET ACT
AND OPPOSE BOARD

The farmers of Montana should
take note of the fact that Senator
Wheeler, in his zest to show that
his free trading colleague, Sena-
tor Walsh, is able to take care Of
the farmers alone-though he has
named no plan-attacks the farm
board and the farm marketing act,
Republican officials at the state
headquarters stated in an inter-
view recently.
Wheeler knocked the farm act at
Froid, in a political address. The
farm board and the farm market
ing act, back of which is the gov
eminent and revolving fund of
half a billion dollars, is the first
step toward the withdrawal of the
marketing field for livestock and
. farm products from middlemen to
hand it over to the agriculturists,
Tom Campbell, one of the larg-
est grain growers in the world, in
vited by Russia to advise it on gr-
ain farming and marketing, has
just said that, if it were not for
the farm board, the prices of wheat
and other grains would be lower
than the great surplus of 250,000,-
600 bushels has carried it.
Lewis Penwell, for 25 years well
known sheepman and partner OF
Senator Walsh, said within a few
days past at Billings that the du
ty on wooden rags and wool in the
tariff law passed against the vote
of his partner, would soon raist
the price of wool. He also said that
Montana stockmen already havt
been able ottake some advantage
of the farm boards provisions
through their cooperatives.
The farm board will eventually
put the farmers in control of the
growing, marketing and manage
ment of farming and livestock
raising in the United States. Pres
ident Hoover is pledged to contin
ue it in operation. He has not los
faith in it.
It is viciously attacked by tht
grain and other middlemen. These
middlemen control the marketing
of the products they do not grow
they take 70 cents out of every dol
lar the consumer pays the stock
men or farmers for their products
the middlemen's business is Wortl
billions of dollars and enriches tht
men who control it. In the farmers
and stockmen's hands it would en-
rich them.
The farm marketing act, backed
by half billion dollars of govern
ment money, aims to give it t.
them. It belongs to them.
Senator Wheeler, in fighting tn
farm board because it is a repuhli
can measure, fights the stoclkmel
and farmers. He and Walsh, VIII
has automatically kept silent thu
far on the farm board, are both en-
emies to this attempt of Presiden
Hoover and the government to ali
them.
Two conditions show the farm
board and farm marketing act ar
valuable to the farmers, the tire
mendous opposition offered to i
! by the middlemen who own tn
grain elevators, warehouses an,
all the phsyical means of market
| ing, and the business of market
ing and who want to keep the far
! mers in bondage to them, and tn
radical and interested politicians
! like Wheeler and Walsh, pretend
ed friends of the farmer, who seel
merely their own profit and try t
discredit it because it does not a
once bring in the millennium.
In attacking the farm board
Senator Wheeler shows himself DO
tn a demagogue and an enemy o.
of the farmers and stockmen o.
Montana. He campaigns for Sena
tor Walsh, and his utterances have
the latter's Endorsement, which pl
aces Walsh also among such enem
les.
1t was not enough for both Wa.
lsh and Wheeler to fight the tariff
which protects the products Of
Montana's farms and ranches, but
they must even oppose the only
government machine ever set W
which aims to give the farmers
control of their own marketing
field.
| MORROW SAYS HE WILL