The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-10-14
UNION PRESIDENT
TALKS ON ISSUES
TIL NGLY CRITICISES
HERBERT HOOVER, LAUDS
ROOSEVELT

City, national president OF tn
Farm Union, and formerly Okla
homa state president of the Farm
Union spoke to nearly a Thousand
people at the Coliseum, and nc
doubt a vast radio audience, since
the address was broadcast over
KICK.
Mr.. Simpson talked for two
hours and his speech was inter
rupted several times by enthus-
iastic cheers as he brought home
forcefully some important point.
He talked at length on the legisla-
ton for farm relief which had
been attempted, but which had
failed, and c~ontrasted it with the
abundant help there was for the
manufacturer, the transportation
companies, banks and insurance
companies. He said that the Farm
ers Holiday association was start
ed by the Farm Union because re
medal legislation had failed to
pass. The two measures which he
mentioned in particular were the
Frazier refinancing bill which
would have allowed the farmer to
pay 1h% interest and 1h% on
the principal each year, and the
Swank-Thomas bill which was de-
signed to help the producer get
cost of production plus a slight
margin. The Farm Union present
ed the ultimatum to Congress to
pass some remedial legislation by
the 4th of July or the farmers
would call a strike. The wanted
bills were killed, and it was up to
the farmers to organize their holt
day association.
Mr.. Simpson cited the fact that
about 600 out of 500 banks in North
Dakota have failed in the last few
years simply because the farmers
have been selling their products
below cost. Other business firms
JAILED for the same reason. Selling
below cost of production has
farmers, businessmen and
,ven Uncle Sam on the verge of
bankruptcy. He said that the farm
IFS we're not going to be respon-
ible for such a condition much
onger.
Strike Defined
Mr.. Simpson defined a strike as
a courageous minority making a
owardly majority be good" A
trike is brother to a revolution,
Or a revolution is the minorities
rom all organizations getting to-
ether and overthrowing the gov
rnment because that government
oesn't protect them. Answering !
nose who object to trough stuff =
connection with strikes, he said
le reason for rough stuff is scabs. $
every n belonging to an organ !
,ation or occupation were to strike !
would be no rough stuff, but !
le strikers could control the sit '
alton without violence. He refer z
ID to the famous Boston tea party
) a classic example of a strike >
of unfair taxation. Christ L
imself, when he drove the money y
hangers out of the temple, in !
Ilged in trough stuff" and He I'M II
,ubtedly would sanction it is this l
~ and age. !"
All laws and government, consti- U
ton and court decisions, are set
, to protect human rights, and T.
hen government and constitution
il to protect human rights, he !
id, then the human rights. or the I
,ople, have the right under the =
institution to trample them in the u
st. :,
Bigger Deficit Than Europe D
Regarding the United States def a,
It, and the governments soft N
arted policy toward making Euro Y
countries pay their just debts, a,
:. Simpson said that the United
ates has a deficit of $4,000, 000,- r.
while the deficits of all the peo- =
J of Europe combined does not
ual half that amount.
He outlined the Farmers Union
IN of taxation, which is based on of
ility to pay rather than placing d;
percentage ad valorem on COM fir
Ability to pay would be ba
5ed on net income at the end OF ca
year. When people have not ur
income to pay taxes levied in.
On them they must pay these Or
.es out of their capital, and af-
a series OF taxes paid out of
)ital, the capital itself is used
Every tax sale in the United to,
he gave figures show Pc
how much land is being sold for vi.
inquent taxes-means q farmer Dc
a business man who paid his be
out of his capital until he Da