The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-22
Bankers Farm Orea1
Finds Prevention -
EvictiOns Is Illegal

Leetonia, Ohio, April 12.-Some
time ago / wrote a criticism of a
speech made by C. A. Dyel, legis-
lative agent of the Ohio State
Grange and the Farm Bureau.
This speech was made at the So
called Farmers Institute" at Sa-
lem, Ohio. 1 sent this criticism
to a number of local newspapers
and all of them published it.
Among those who published it was
the Farm and Dairy, local farm
journal.
Along with my letter, the editor
of Farm and Dairy made an edi-
torial comment in which he criti-
cized two of the demands l had
stated should be made by the
workers and poor farmers for the
duration of the crisis. The de-
mands are: ~ the reduction of
salaries of government employees.
including the president, members
of congress, state and county Off
Gals to 100000 per year.
/ (2) The prohibition of evic-
lions of poor farmers and unem-
lployed workers for failure to pay
rent, interest on mortgaged debt,
or taxes.
The editor, Mr.. Carlton F. Chris
tan attacked these measures in
the following way:
The first measure he said Is I'm
practical because we cannot get
Competent" men to run the af-
fairs of "our" government for
$4,000 per year.
To attack the second measure
he took cowardly refuge in the
Constitution, but revealed the class
he represents. ''TO deprive the
landlords of their rent or money
lenders of their interest would be
unconstitut AOnal" he maintained
and therefore any such law would
be Immediately voided.
then made him the reply below
which he did not publish. Instead
he returned it with the comment
following the reply.
Leetonia, Ohio
March Is, 1892
Mr.. C. F. Christian, Editor,
Farm and Dairy
Salem, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
Since you have made an editori-
al comment on my reply to Mr.
Dyer, you will doubtless be willing
to publish my answer to your
comment.
First of all the question as to
whether people willing to work
for 100000 per year can be en-
trusted with the affairs of gov
eminent. Now, if our high-priced
politicians were running the gov
eminent in such a way that uni
versal satisfaction prevailed and
were able to show a surplus in the
treasures of city, state and ma
tional governments you might rea-
sonably question the advisability
of cutting the salaries of the poll
ticians. However, in the face of
widespread discontent,-with in
creasing numbers of unemployed
wage workers and destitute farm
ers demanding relief and every
local and state treasury and the
treasury of the National govern
ment facing heavy deficits, il
seems to be but the logical thing
to demand that the salaries of
the politicians shall be cut as one
! means of meeting the needs OF
/ the situation. When seeking Of
flee, politician never asks fol-
the opportunity to do anything
T else but serve the "dear people,
Here is an opportunity.
When the Wall Street crash oc-
> Cured "our" high priced president
announced that everything would
I be all right in sixty days. Almost
, any factory worker having seer
the speed up, the belt system, the
( piecework system, ETC., would have
Q known better. Well, sixty day:
have come and gone fifteer
times, and things have not grown
; better but steadily worse. Since
that time Mr.. Hoover and hi:
! cabinet have drawn from the pub
: lie treasury one million five hund
red thousand dollars in salarie!
d and expense" money. In the
:, thirty months since the Wal
Street crash the dual house O.
! Congress consisting in toto of So.
: members has appropriated to itsel
/, approximately eight and one hal
t million dollars, at the rate O.
t $4,000 per year each and $10,OOl
r extra for senator's and $4,000 ex
ira for representatives. Now,
n ask you, could Congress possibl,
\ have done any less to relieve tn,
misery of the masses or to star
! the wheels of industry if they ha,
been paid $4,000 per year each in
1 stead of $4,000?
e Ostensibly, to help the farmer
# Congress has placed a tariff o.
wool but the price of wool wa
n never lower and the poor farme
i never found it as hard to buy
suit of clothes. There is a tar