The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-19
REWRITES FARM BILL
Sanger. N. OAK,
Jan, II, 1888.

Editor. Tribune:
II you will be kind enough to give
1t space I would like to re-Write that
Farm Emergency Act you printed in
full in your issue of the 18th inst.
and couch it in plain farm English
50 that we farmers can more fully
understand 1t. You asked your read
ers to study the bill and as proof
that one did I submit the following:
Sec. 2. It is hereby declared (a)
That the depression in prices for that
part Of farm crops that Is consum-
ed in this country. (cause Of depres-
sion unknown to us), the effect of
unsettled world conditions upon FORE
Ign markets for the part of our
farm crops that is surplus and must
be sold abroad, and the inequality
between the prices for agricultural
and other commodities, have together
given rise to conditions in agricul-
ture that have at last engaged the
thought of the nation.
This impoverished condition Of the
American farmer has burdened and
INSTRUCTED the normal currents Of
commerce in farm products to such
an extent that his grief and poverty
are being felt by other, more import
ant industries, whose Affections ma
turally create q national emergency
that demands immediate COMPRESSION
al action 50 that we can get relief
from this farm emergency and there
by facilitate the recovery, mot of
the farmer), Of industry, the rail-
roads, employment and the bankers.
(b) That 1t is the policy of con-
gress to tell the dumb farmer how to
IAN his farm operations to make
them meet the changed world condi-
lions. Of which the farmer in his
protected position has no knowledge,
and to aid In restoring him to a So
cial station on par with coal miners.
bootblackS and newsies and then. If
need be, incidentally correct the in
equalities between the prices for ag-
ricultural and other commodities.
(c) That the provisions Of this
act are made applicable solely to
wheat, cotton. tobacco, rice, hogs,
dairy products and peanuts because
these are the basic agricultural COM
modities Of America, since they all
must be processed before consumed
and because It is well known that we
produce an exportable surplus of each,
peanuts In particular.
Sec. 3. (a) The secretary of agri-
culture shall determine when Is the
proper time In the year to begin mar
keting each Of the several mentioned
commodities.
(b) Producers Of these selected
products shau be entitled to Adjust
ment Certificates on condition they
comply with the terms Of this act
and In addition are willing to do
whatever the secretary OF agriculture
tells them to do.
(c) These Adjustment Certificates
shall cover the portion Of the pro-
ducers crops that r. consumed In the
United States, the surplus must be
dumped on the markets at world
prices In order to stabilize the market
depression.
In respect to most Of these staple
products. certificates shall be issued
on first sales but It Is hereby cum
ningly provided that In respect to
cotton the secretary, at his discre-
ton. may pass the issuance Of the
certificate over the first sale Of UNI
sinned cotton by the negro farmer
and issue II on the sale Of the ginned
criticize by the white man.
In respect to hogs . sale to feed
e., no matter whether he intends to