The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-09-04
RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by Prairie Elk Farmers
Union Local No. 1892,
Prairie Elk, Montana

empty is they got less money for
what they produced than they
paid for what they consumed, or,
to put it another way, they didn't
get money enough for their work
to buy back what they had pro
duecd. Hence a so-called surplus
has accumulated. Money that
should be felt in circulation as a
medium of exchange and a bal
ance of trade has been systemati-
cally drained out by greedy, grasp
ing and cunning individuals and
corporations by mean of exces-
siye and unreasonable profits, in
terests. ETC., and if now in the
Golfers of the eastern millionaires
to be loaned to foreign nations
TO cause future to slaughter
our youth. Millions of wage work
ers and their dependents are flirt-
ing with starvation. The farmers
are ruined and the small town
business man just barely hanging
on. and all this brushing should
ers with our marvels of science
and superior learning! 1t is time
to try something to remedy this
state of affairs. If this is allowed
to continue for another year or
two our schools will be closed, u
county governments will be unable
to function, our homes lost, and
ruin and misery will be every
where.
Whereas. Governments are hui
man instruments and got their
beginning when man could no long
err handle the situation as individ-
uals. When there is a Panama
Canal or a Boulder Dam to be
built the government has to do
il or it would not be done. Our
public schools, highways and the
mail service are by far the most
efficient enterprises we have and
the different government depart
ments are manned by just as hon
est and efficient men as are found
in private business. If our public
servants are corrupt and give us
poor service it is because we
stand for it. Hard as it is to do,
we have a way to get good ser
vice there.
Whereas, The price of bread
is practically the same now, when
wheat is selling for twenty-five
cents per bushel, a $ it was when
wheat was selling for $3.50 per
bushel. What is true of wheat ap-
plies to wool, cotton, and all the
way down the line. The selling
price OF the raw product does not
affect the selling price of the fin
ished article to any extent.
Whereas, Several of our western
states are hit by drought and to-
tai crop failure, their people, with
the exception Of a few favored
localities are facing winter with
out food for themselves and live
stock or any seed for another
year. These deserving people must
have food and if we depend on
charity for it they will be starv-
ing most of the time. The country
has been overdrawn for charity.
Organized charity couldn't handle
a few counties in Arkansas last
winter very good, let alone sever
al states. If we success-worshiping
Americans must despise the
grownups who have gotten behind
in the race we should have some
feeling for the children. 1t is no
fault of theirs that their parents
are the victims of circumstances
over which they have no control.
We have thousands of millionaires
in this country, congress has the
power to levy taxes, the constltu-
ton gives congress the right to is
sue currency, and there is no reas-
on why we should humiliate good,
Woodworking, deserving people
with charity or let them suffer.
Whereas. If, in the fall of 1880
the Farm Board or some other
branch of the Government had
had the power to fix the price OF
wheat at, say S1.50 per bushel
with a tariff high enough to pro-
tect that price, for what we could
costume at home, and power to
fix the amount each producer
could sell and to keep the surp-
lus on the farm where it belongs,
there would not be any problem
facing us to feed the drought
stricken farmer now. They would
most of them be in comfortable
circumstances and the local banks
and merchants would be able to
extend credit to those who are
not. And they would have the 1880
surplus to feed their stock and
for seed for next spring. Had
this price fixing been extended on
down the line to all raw products
there would not be any depres-
sion now. If the producer OF the
raw article gets a good price for
his articles he buys manufactured
goods, the merchants shelf IS
emptied. he orders more goods,