The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-01
STATES WELFARE Of
nation DEPENDS ON
JUSTICE TO FARMER
Pennsylvania Attacks Board
As Huge and Costly
Lemon IN Address
cRITIcIzEs RAlDRoAD PLEA
Says Farming Should be Placed
On Equal Basis with Other
industries

sedalia, Mo, Sept. l.-R-Asssil.
ing the federal farm board q that
huge and costly lemon" Gov. Clifford
Pinchot Of Pennsylvania said IN N
address here Tuesday that tho "wel-
fare Of America depends upon justice
to the American far,ner-tustice Is
the farmer himself understands JUS
tice-and not some alleged panacea
devised by men who neither know his
problems nor comprehend his point OF
View"
Addressing tho annual convention
Of the Missouri Farmers' association,
Gov. Pinchot urged the farm industry
''be placed on . basis Of economic
equality with other industries" ne
said the farmer. "foe years the or
phan Of American politics. should be
taken into the family and haye q
voice - to what type Of relief should
be. attempted"
The present tariff, he charged, ID
detrimental, to the farmer; he said he
believes in the equalization fee. and
thinks the dehenture plan -"lnques-
tionably has it, merits"
The Pe~tyasylvatta governor. djS-
cuse6d - = possibls candidate for thu
Republican pfoStdential n6gninatiOr
next year, criticised thu .rallroadS fol
seeking 70 tncrease freight rAteg 1t I
time when the farmer already 4
oveYburdened."a The. cost Of distribu-
ton Of farm products, he said, u
twicey Is high now Is u was before
tho Worldswar.
There are too many middle profits
between producer and consumer" he
said. ''The middleman regularly pays
the farmer too little and charges the
consumer too much. And he does Il
On the wartime basis, when wheat
vas selling five times and more PEI
bushel than It has been sold for Thu
year. !;
Better methods. Of distribution
could give the farmer 4 larger share
Of tho consumers dollar without cost
ing the consumer single additional
cent What we need, and need TIRE
mendously In that connection, u Il
take up the slack. Part Of the cost Of
distribution Is for freight. And It'd
b tho time chosen BY the railroads fol
piling hsavier. freight rates than eve1
on the farmers 3houlders. In my
opluion this Il Q time for reducing
ana not increasing the freight burden
OF tho overburdened farmer.
years ago when the farmer asked
Tor economic Justice he was given
moro credit. He needs credit now r.
help him carry this years crop. But
In general what the farmer needs TO-
day Is not more credit to 60 more In
to debt, but better prices the better
to get out Of debt"
Gov. Pinchot urged the farmer and
city laborer to stand together, but
! added he was not talking about po-
htical control. and I DO not refer Il
q third party. On the contrary, ! an
taking economic control for the
greatest good Of tho greatest number
which + the object Of Ill govern
ment"
The problem Of farm relief, he said
has been dealt With In congress not
a. the farmer wanted It handled, but
. "the city men decided It must be
handled. The farmers asked foE
the equalization tee. They asked for
tho debenture plan. Instead they
were given the huge and costly
lsrnoa., tho farm board. for which
they did not ask"