The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-30
Tables Are Turned

creating q greater purchasing power
and . potent demand for what the |
farmer Sells even though what he
buys from the east In price seems
all out Of proportion to what the ag-
riculturalist himself receives.
For the most part, the New York
Times has been . free trade paper, 81
most intelligently edited, fair In it,
treatment Of news and probably,
viewed from Ill angles, Americas
greatest newspaper.
But even the Homer Of American
Journalism can nod.
In our humble opinion, this great
newspaper did some journalistic nod
ding or wobbling In . recent editorial |
entitled parity for Wheat"
The conclusion Of that editorial |
sums up the idea Of the entire COM
u,ent and Is o follows:
In other words, % far ~ par
ity" for wheat u concerned, we
Are precisely where We were be.
fore the AAA was established
though the spread between the
actual price and the ideal price
has increased from about 80
cents to nearly 20, making the
higher tax necessary. For the
rest. the only difference Is that
farm purchasing power has been
Increased BY the amount paid In
the form Of cash bounties. This
q unquestionably . gain, from
the farmers point Of view. But
taxing one section Of the public
specifically for the benefit Of an.
other win produce this result
whenever II Is tried.
This newspaper does not want to
indulge in any demagogic references
to Wall Street Or Big Business. Prob
ably The Times win agree that OIL
subsidy. excise tax, tariff bonus, pref
erential railway rates o. what not
should not benefit @ 4 class either
the farmer or the business man
whether hs lives In the Wan Street
sooe q struggles for . bare existence
In the windswept sections Of Main
Street In . North Dakota prairie town.
II The Times = speaking against all
government subsidies for Ill business.
then there = no argument.
But It must be admitted that much
Of our present economic maladjust-
ment = due to . disparity between
the market opportunities Of the vari-
Gus sections Of the United States.
The farmer was debated with q
vengeance following tho World war
while other industry was let down
much easier. Neither did the farmer
enjoy the price for his products which
the great industries received TOR their
efforts to make the world safe Tor
democracy" Farmers In the corn.
wheat and cotton belts were under
the Hoover scheme Of price-fixing.
Bars were let down to prevent the
farmers from profiteering during the
war. while nearly Ill other industries
were clrbed but little.
This newspaper Is not at all con-
WINGED that the processing tax Is q
proper economic arrangement. It be-
lteves there are many things wrong
with the Wallace Tugwell plan Of
augmentation. but It Is heartily glad
that the farmers are getting . little
easy money denied them during the
war and following post-bellum i'd
justments. Az long Is it Is Z govern
mental policy to spread bonuses and
subsidies around, the farmer and the
small businessmen in the agricultural
sections should not b overlooked.
They have been too long the easy VIC
tins Of the law Of Supply and Do
mand' about which % many learned
editorials have been written IN the
newspapers which serve tariff pro-
tected and heavily subsidized blsi-
- centers. The farmers, IKE Oliver
Iwist, 40 merely asking for . too
lae-dala1ed second halpins. Il i
sVen > lean one at best under the
AAA. MIRA Or other alphabetical
sbene6eas'' q the New Dsel.
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