The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-06
INDICTs ALLOTMENT PLAN
Bismarck, N. D.,
Sept. ], 1888.
Editor. Tribune:

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it has hedged US around with
III kinds Of red tape, making It al
most impossible for farmer to COM
bly, with the various rules and regula-
ions. And, while it may be fair to
,ome, it Is grossly unfair to others.
Very few farmers know to q Ger
tainty how much wheat they produc-
I'd in any certain year. When to this
IS added the demand that various
sales must be remembered and the
amount Of dockage said wheat con-
tained, how much was used for home
etc. 1t Is easy to see
what the farmer Is up against.
Gross discrimination Is running
all through the scheme. The
fact that each county Is limited to its
actual production during the base per-
lod, and no allowance Of any kind
made for unfavorable conditions Will
work hardship on many. Farmers
should demand an allotment based on
what their farms are capable Of pro-
ducing in favorable years, and not
merely that part Of the crop left them
after drought, hail and pests have
taken their toll! And, If they can't
get q fair and equitable allotment,
they should refuse to join until the
big wigs in washington wake up!
Then there is the ruling that the ten
ant who pays cash Is given the whole
allotment while the share tenant is
only given q share Of the. allotment
fee. This is unfair because the share
tenant is going to have to pay Tor
every acre taken out Of wheat and put
the crops for home consumption IN
addition to losing good part OF his
allotment fee. Believe me. we know.
AS yet we haven't learned whether
or not the man who is buying on crop
payments will have to give half the
allotment to his mortgage or not.
but the chances are he will. and Il 50,
this would also be unfair In the ex-
IRENE. Anyone who IS trying to buy
q farm on the half crop plan knows II
is practically impossible to pay out.
The MORTGAGE gets one half the crop
free OF all expense and it just about
takes the other half to pay expenses.
Those farms which were rented on
q cash basis during part OF the basic
period and the tenant has moved TO
an uncertain address will have to have
their allotments figured on an entire
" different basis, If they are to take
part in the plan. Already there Is q
lot of complaint Of unfairness and IN
equality by those farmers who nave
taken preliminary steps to join the
scheme. And there will be lots more
A farmer Is in danger OF pehe
prosecuted for perjury If he signs q
contract, unless he Is absolutely Ger
tain he has given correct data IN every
particular. But when farmer does
his own threshing who IS to know the
truth? Any plan that expects farm
ers in any given community to act
the mart Of snoop and inspector on
their neighbors is bound to have q
rude awakening. And certainly sucn
tactics do not make for harmony III .
farming community.
Mighty few farmers are going 70
soueal on their neighbors when they
see the big town farmers, all the
landlords in the country and the TEL
low who farms fifty thousand acres
net the same allotment In proportion
as the poor devil who depends on MS
forty acre farm for livelihood.
That which was so widely heraldeo
as q farm relief plan has turned OUT
to be lust another relief plan for the
biz fellows and, as the Tribune TOLD
ne q few days ago, the small farmer
viii probably not care to join and y
will be more profitable Tor the Dig
fafmer to join the plan. :,
But our guess Is the small fellow Is
the very one who needs help most. ana
since the government Is taking no
hand in the speculation and gamonng
That is lowering the farmers market
daily. wiping out every cent OF profit
he hoped to make, while at the same
time prices are rising on every mana
and wages are being set by the gov
eminent, the farmer Is being grossly
discriminated against on every hand.
And the increasing Of the processing
tax will not help the farmer who Is
barred for any reason from joining
the allotment plan. A simple state
mont as to the past years farming
operations which every farmer still
remembers, together with q statement
Of future plans, should have been all
that was required Of the farmer-not
this going back into ancient history
digging up data which lies in the past
and which no doubt has been COM
pletely destroyed. .,,,.
Al farmers have often said: We
want to join the plan but we don't
want to risk being sued for perjury. !
They want to join the plan. for any
scheme that will give the farmers q
few needed dollars Is going to be big
help in these hard times, but If they
cannot produce the desired inlorma-
ton how can they?
Farmers and farmer organizations
as well as the business men In the
towns and cities, owe it to themselves
to see that rulings and regulations OF
this plan are made less severe. They
must do all they can by writing their
representatives In congress to have
some or all this red tape set aside and
. fair and impartial set Of rules used
In their place. Unless they do this .
lot Of farmers win not b able 70 Join,
much 8 they desire to. And with mil
lions OF farmers outside the plan pro-
ducing all the wheat they possibly
can raise, the whole scheme will crum-
bic Is have 90 many before 1t. The
plan has much to commend, the idea
behind It to take out Of production
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