The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08


as trespassers, they will produce,
for they must. If they stay on
the land there must be schools
provided; this will keep up taxes.
No, the farmers will have to
go, so schools can be closed, so
townships can be consolidated or
disorganized, the roads abandoned
so the counties can be CONSOLE
dated and court houses junked.
Taxes must be reduced so that the
rent money the owners receive
from Uncle Sam, will after pro-
viding interest and principal on
the bonds, pay larger income on
the money invested in the farms.
And as result, the grass will grow
in the streets CT the villages; the
little merchants and business men,
broke, will go to join the crowd
of HARMLESS farmers, and jobless
workers; the horde of the unem-
ployed.
Now, Mr.. LOdahl, there is no
surplus of food or fabric in this
country, or the world today, and
there never was-that is if we
mean, surplus over what the
people of this country or world
would consume if they had the
means to buy, to get, what is pro-
duced. In fact if the people had
the means of consumption, there
would actually be shortage.
There is not enough food if all
could eat what they should eat,
nor enough cotton or wool II all
were allowed to wear what they
should wear. The surplus is made,
and made larger and larger, be-
cause the workers are consuming
less and less of what Is produced.
And though less is now actually
being produced yearly, the surplus
still grows larger and larger.
This years wheat crop is the
smallest since 1893. The crop last
year was small. Yet the surplus
: of wheat grows and is so big that
) the price falls on this years short
r crop in spite of the initiation and
; cheapening Of money.
; ALI of this proves what We have
set forth above.
Now then, Farmer Lodahl, what
/ does acreage reduction crop re-
r duction really mean stated in its
+ simplest terms?
| It means reducing production
!, to what those who have the money
!. can eat or consume, to what those
few who have jobs and wages car
2 consume-There are people still al
: work-and making those people
d pay higher or monopoly prices fol
a what they can consume, so that
e those farmers still on their farm
a producing food, cotton, wool, etc
the rich farmers-can get ;
e profit price out of what they pro
o duce."
n The factories now under tn,
National Recovery Act, by code
: under the very same theory, ar,
) reducing the manufacturing o
o goods to what those who hav,
e money or jobs and wages can con
= sumo, so that the big factor,
: owners, like the rich farmers, cal
e make a big profit out of thos
5, who are still able to buy, by pro
o ducing and selling less. And wha
a of the businessless businessmen
e the clientless professionals, tn
!. the HARMLESS farmer, the jobles
It workers? How are they going
S eat, to get clothes, to have fur
If niture or homes or even to hea
? them in the winter? There will
It no food or clothes for them, 70
/ we are not going to raise it O
st manufacture it; for acreage reduC
Ell lions and factory production re
duction means that we are not gc
r ing to raise food, or make clothe
he or anything else for those ths
p can't buy. Now we have the foo,
W and the clothing, but the worker
" can't get the money to eat or wes
g it; then we will not have the foe
re or clothes for those who can't bu
" it, and so they must starve and 9
to naked.
IS All of this, our friends, is Il
r. sGAIa- noo10 radoe;~r. -