Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
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4 Letter From 4 POeahOntas
County Farmer

AOuMly NaA nANI
Editor West Virginia News,
ROnOeverte, w. Va.
Dear Mr.. Editor:
The Bible says, IF the righteous
/ scarcely be saved, where shall the
CngOdly and the sinner appear??" II
/ the rich scarcely live, where shall
/ the farmer and consumer appear?
Under the guidance of the Brain
less Trust the 74th Congress passed
the Potato Control Law 1 wonder
/ what's next. The farmer under the
/ State law pays taxes on mis- land,
/ farm machinery, horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, hay, grain and potatoes
/ and a consumers sales tax on ev-
{ clything he buys. II he is so fOrtu-
nate as to have the means to buy a
car or farm truck he pays a con-
sumers' sales tax on it when he
buys it and then a good stiff tax each
year for the privilege of operating
it, and he also pays State and Fed
eral tax on every gallon of gas he
buys to run his car or truck as well
as a consumers sales tax.
Under the NRA National Ruina-
tion Act) we have the AAA latter
the Almighty Acre.. First: The
Wheat Control Law that cOmpels the
farmer or consumer to pay 80 cents
or every bushel Of wheat ke sells.
This goes TO the sO-called big farm
e. (who sits under the shade of
tree and watches the rag weed
grow) for the wheat he GOes not
grow. Second: We have the HCA
(HOg Control Aet), which cOmpels
the man who raises hogs to pay
process tax on every hog he kills
before he sells It. This money goes
to pay the man who murdered his
little innocent pigs in their infancy
and the nanny hogs who save them
birth, and for pigs he has since not
raised. As a result of this sOree of
numbering these little pigs by the
AAA the price of meat is now be-
yOnd the reach of the poor man and
his family. Pork chops sold last
week in Minneapolis for so cents per
pound and IS cents in Washington.
Breakfast bacon is so cents in the
town of MarlintOn.
Third: Now comes the Pea (PO-
tatO Control Act), which cOmpels the
farmer to submit to the dictatiOn of
the Administration in the matter of
raising potatoes. Under this act the
Secretary Of Agriculture imposes a
quota on each farmer, telling him
how many bushels of potatoes he
may raise. If a farmer raises more
potatoes than the Secretary of Agri- |
culture tells him he can raise, he |
must pay a penalty of As cents per |
bushel on every bushel of potatoes |
he raises, and in addition to this |
penalty he will be compelled to pay 1
a tax stamp Of y of a cent on each
pound of potatoes he raises in eX-
cess of the amount the Secretary of
Agriculture has told him he could
raise before he is allowed to offer
them for sale. For instance, if the
Secretary Of Agriculture tells a po-
tatO raiser in Greenbrier county
that he can raise 500 bushels of po-
tatoes next year and the farmer
plants what he thinks will produce
500 bushels of potatoes, then next
year happens to be a good potato
year and he digs 900 bushels instead
of 500. he will have to cash over to
the Government S5S5 before he is
to offer any of his potatoes
for sale.
Another provision of this law is
that each potato raiser is required
to put his potatoes offered for sale
in packages to be prescribed by the
of Agriculture and to
place on each package either an ex-
empt stamp or tax stamp, and any
one who makes sale Of potatoes or
pliers for sale, or any consumer who
buys potatoes without first being put
up in these packages with the stamp
attached, is subject to fine not ex-
$1,000 and imprisoned for
not more than a year.
Another provision Of this law is
hat if a neighbor knows of a viola
ion Of this law and does not report
he violation, he too. is subject to
inc not exceeding $1,000. This is the
irst time in the history Of this Re-
'ublic where it has been made
rhine for a friend not to report his
riend il he violates the most nefar-
Gus law ever placed on the statute
'oOks Of a free country. Who will
lare say "BTainless Trust" is not
he proper namel \
Oh. Liberty! Thou are fast fleeing
rom us. We would not be surprised
hat, before long. all Of US will have
D have in onr possession a Govern
lent permit and a roll Of regulation
oilet paper with a Government
tamp on every section before we
are enter a water closet. known
lese times as Franklin D." l
A FARMER l