Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-15
PINE COUNTY FARMERS HOLIDAY
ASSOCIATION

Editor AskOv American:
We wish to advise you farmers who
stayed home Last Friday that our
meeting at Pine City was real sue
cess. About five hundred farmers
gathered at the court house to enforce
mortgage holders still are ignoring.
In stopping this mortgage sale it goes
to prove that the farmers have the
strongest moratorium law in their own
hands; only some farmers whom ma
ture, has provided with a wishbOne
instead of a backbone, think that by
staying home and wishing for bet
ter times will solve the problem.
We wish to extend our sincere ap-
probation to the business men of Pine
City for their fine donation in the
line of food and cash for the lunch
served at the pavilion. We also ex-
tend our thanks to Mr.. Schwartzwald
for the use of his pavilion. The meet
ing was called to order by N. P. Nede-
gard who explained the situation the
man was in that was to be fore
closed upon, and also the need of or
ganization. He then introduced Mrs.
Quasi from Carver county, who gave
only a short talk, due to "a bad cold.
Her speech was we'll received.
John Bosch was then introduced
and read and explained our legislative
program, stating that the program
means nothing if we can not make it
into law, and it is up to every farmer
to get into this organization and help
make it SO; he said the degree of sue
of organization, that if you have
money to drink beer you should have
money to save your home, that any
thing less than cost of production for
the farmer is economic suicide, and
until we get that and the Frazier bill
or something better we should con-
tinue to stop mortgage foreclosure
sales, the same as we have done. He
said Governor Olson will go to Wash
ington to try to secure more federal
money for drouth relief, and that we
should appoint a committee to call on
him for a conference at once. The
following were elected to serve on
this committee: Mrs. Thieman, Mrs.
Herrud, and Mr.. Herrud from Pine
City; N. P. Nedegaard, AskOv; and
Hjalmer Sandell, Hinckley.
The drouth relief program adopted
at the Ganite Falls convention is as
follows:
1. That the system of allotting re-
lief feed and hay is entirely made
quate and will prove disastrous and
will result in starvation of livestock
before Christmas. Unless the allot-
ment is increased to several times the
present amount, we feel that all re-
lief may as well be stopped immedi-
ately.
Due to the increase in price of feed
the maximum amount should be in
creased to SIS per month for each APP
plicant.
We recommend there be no dis
elimination as to applicants financial
standing, and that farmers should not
be compelled to borrow money to buy
| feed, but to receive the feed free.
2. We recommend that all county
managers and district supervisors be
| composed of bonafide farmers.
3. Due to the continued drouth,
we recommend that all relief feed re-
payments up to July 1, 1884, be can
| celled.
The Holiday legislative program
will be published later.
| 1t was also decided at the state
convention that each county elect a
committee to draw up a uniform farm
rent contract to suit that locality, as
there is very much discrimination as
to farm rent leases. The following
resolution was adopted:
| Whereas, farm leases as at present
drawn, permit the owner to secure
a mortgage on the entire crop of the
tenant as security for the payment of
cash rent, thus leaving the tenant
without any returns for his labor in
case of low prices or poor crop,
Therefore be it resolved. that we
petition our governor and the legis-
lature to enact a law, permitting the
farm owner to secure mortgage on
one-half the crop as security for the
payment of cash rent.