Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-11-16
THE FARM STRIKE
THE FIRST REPEAL
10 STATES ARE WET
THE TAX ON LIQUOR
WILL BUY HOGS
INFORMING THI FARMERS

IItslutHl is anxiOu
for the dissatisfied element to I'M
derstand what has been done and
what Is expected to result from his
farm policies after a thorough test.
With the processing taxes now in
effect. administration advisers be.
lieve that the next two months will
show Improvement In prices of many
agricultural products.
The Bureau of Agricultural &c
onomics. surveying the outlook for
1894. says that farm income will
likely be better. and, at the same
time. estimated the gross agricult-
ural income for this year at So
100000, 900 or twenty-four percent
above that OF 1892. Further i'm.
provement is expected during the
next twelve months, depending
largely upon improvements In heavy
industries. such Az iron and steel.
Reports from Iowa. where belli-
cose farm strikes have pickefed
highways in a threatening mood,
indicate the danger OF violence,
although Milo Reno, leader OF the
strike. says that the people have
been admonished to carry on by
peaceful picketing In the strike"
However, he thought lit weld
perhaps be impossible to prevent
action similar to the burning of a
railway bridge, the shooting at a
froinI+ train md rfhor {hxnn4r ~
violence.
A railway bridge. near Sioux City
was burned shortly after pickets
failed to stop a freight train, and
trainmen reported a bullet fired
through the window of the caboose.
The bridge sight Is near the scene
of a dozen battles between the
strikers and truckers within the
past year. Indicative of the temper
OF the participants, the sheriff of
one county had the courthouse an
der guard, at LeMars, where last
April a district judge was abduct-
ed.
Milo Reno charges the President
with breaking his prediction pledge
to the farmers and attempting to
nbribe the farmer with dOleA.'s He
insists that farmers have but one
course left to pursue, that is, to
strike with all the power they pos
sess" and warns that 1t will be a
long, bitter struggle" BY contrast
Governor Floyd Olsen, of Minneso-
ia, one Of the five Midwest gov
ernors who were unsuccessful in q
personal plea to the White House
stated that he found Secretary Wal
lace and others In Washington sin
cere In their desire to speed farm
relief. He indicated that an early
conference would be held to pre-
pare plads for congressional legis
lation which would include Federal
pr~ice-fixing, marketing control and
a system of licensing farmers with
definite limits as to how much each
could market.
Repeal OF the Eighteenth Amend.
ment, accomplished by the addition
OF the Twenty-first Amendment,
marks the first time In the history
OF the United States that an amend
ment to the Constitution has been
abrogated. Moreover. the campaign
for ratification OF the Twenty-firs
amendment has taken about ten
months, compared to about thirteen
months to ratify the Eighteenth and
much longer periods to secure the
ratification of other amendments.
When repeal becomes effective
only nineteen states will be Legally
wet territory at once, unless. other
states adopt new liquor control laws
as t~wenty~nine states now prohibit
intoxicating liquors within their
borders. The wet states, as we un-
derstand it, will be New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, pennsylvania,
Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware.
Indiana, Louisiana, Washington
Wisconsin, Arizona, Montana, Ne
vada, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois
California and New Mexico.
Even after repeal goes into effect
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