Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-03-01

Congressmen and senators, especially those from the
agricultural states of the Middle West and Far West, are
being deluged with letters from their constituents, urging
that something be done for the relief of agriculture, and
many of them adding that there will be open revolt and
chaos if things are permitted to go as they are much long
err. Some of the letters are said to carry an air OF pa
thetic hopelessness while others are filled with suggest
ions of what ought to be done. Most frequent among the
suggestions are those relating to initiation. Many OF these
farmers and real estate men seem to believe that If the
government would only print more money, things would
come around all right again.
A number of these letters were printed recently in a
metropolitan newspaper and the same edition of this pa
per carried a statement from William Green, president of
the American Federation Of Labor, to the effect that
there are now more than 100000 jobess workers in the
United States.
1t is passing strange that so few people seem disposed
to link together the plight of the farmers and these twelve
million idle workmen. The farmers are in their present
condition because of the prices of the commodities which
they raise and have to sell are so low, they can no longer
pay taxes and interest on mortgages. The price of these
commodities is so low because there is no market for
them. The reason there is no market for them is that
there are twelve million American workers who have no
jobs. If work could be found for them they would soon
eat up the farm surplus. The price of farm commodities
would then go up and the farmers be able to buy the pro-
ducts of the workmen with the result that the vicious
circle of deflation would be reversed and become a circle
of constructive effort.
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men who profess to believe that what we ought to do is to
lower our tariff barriers still further and SO add to the
flood OF cheap foreign goods which is even now IN a great
part responsible for the millions of idle workmen in Amer
lea. That there is such a flood can be gathered by any
person who will take the trouble to visit some Of our
stores and take a brief inventory of the goods on thel
counter. The foreign invasion has been made possible byI
the fact that a depreciation Of currency in many nations
has enabled their manufacturers to surmOunt our tariff
walls which were built when most of the nations of the
world still had sound money.
The internationalists who revel in this flood of foreign
goods say that we must take it so that the foreign worker
can buy the products of our farmer. The answer to this
argument is not hard to find. The foreign workers are
paid so poorly and in such cheap currency that they
would be able to buy little of our agricultural products it
SO inclined. 1t is difficult to imagine an Oriental worker
who lives on a handful of rice and a cup OF tea per day,
buying any American ham or porter house steak, even If
he had the money which he hasn't and never will have IT
he works twelve hours a day year in and year out.
Wouldn't it be a lot better to stop the holes in our tariff
walls, shut out this flood Of cheap foreign goods and turn
the task of supplying our people over to the idle work
men who would buy good American meat and grain pro-
ducts, and good American butter and eggs, if they had
a job?
One optimist declares that business will start up again
soon because nearly everything which the people had in
1929 is now worn out and they must start buying again.
the trouble is that the old reliable head of the family is
about worn out, too.
One Of our friends says he is going to save a lot of mon
ey this year by patriotically declaring to his ambitious
family that he won't go to France until the French pay
us what they owe us.
If Mr.. Roosevelt wants his administration to be a real
success he should appoint to his cabinet a Secretary of
Agriculture who can give us two dollar wheat and five
cent bread along with ten dollar hogs and ten cent
sausage.
Some astronomers say that the people on Mars are try
ing to attract our attention. Maybe they want to borrow
some money.
Remember the good old days when spending the eve
ming in the kitchen making pop corn balls was considered
real sportf