The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-08-23

Of AUGUST /, addressed to Charles
r.. McClave, president Of the Nom
tara Flour Mills Company at
Great Falls, Mont, and signeq
Jointly by N. L. Towne, uresident
Of the Montana Farm Bureau
Federation, and John g. Paugn,
president Of the 0allatin County
Farm Bureau, is published here
with for the information OF the
general public:
ssWe note with considerable In
terest q July 9th article In the
Montana Press stating that your
company has gone to court 70
avoid payment OF the processing
tax on wheat. Since the wheat
processing tax makes possibcle the
wheat program under the Agrt-
cultural Adjustment Act and since
the FARMERS Of Montana have q
vital interest in that program, We
hereby take the liberty OF express
ing to YOU our opinion Of this
latest Of long series OF actions
m voir part to discredit and
destroy that program.
! 'sFtrSt, may we express OUT,
selves as being slightly skepticai
regarding the closing sentence IN
your quoted statement. court ac-
ton has been reluctantly, taken,
not from choice but from neces-
sity.' Is 1t from necessity, too,
that you have repeated. assaled
the wheat adjustment program IN
your monthly news letter? Was
it necessity that caused you, In
your August, 1894, letter, to ut
teriy misrepresent the wheat Dro-
gram to the people Of Montana
when YOU ATTEMPTED to show that
out Of every dollar collected In
processing taxes the farmer got
onlv 81 cents and that the other
48 cents went to nav overhead
administrative costs Of the pro-
gram? i, .ss,a3 Al s3E
"Was it necessity that caused
you to infer in your May, 1885,
news letter, that the adjustment
program is like the Brazil scof-
fee experiment the breakdown Of
which has caused such dire re-
suits? In the first place you
should know, since you are such
an exuonent, Of Straight think
ing that the Brazil coffee pro-
gram set q very high price on
coffee and made no provision for
the excessive produc-
ton which such high prices
bring. The adjustment program
attempts to achieve parity prices
for certain basic commodities and
tson q sstraioht thinker, shos,ld
~ CHA ~ sea 'tha difssre,,ce he-
twee e t,,e twn ~ ~ =
'" go ".s 49, -. 80. r., .... =
aou say. Ieaoy tne cTts :.n
INNS INNS " ,,, NY ~ tha rrc,,,,st y
Ior SUBSIDY tUr sne e.! touu uu =.
s s thev are askino for an adj.
J;t,croi s,,S,a,dv fnr thew have
innU an,nveI snecioi rnvernment
Tovors NJ wou ~ hich tariffs
And NM sreat ~ New E.nciand,s
cotton min dif,,cn,ties as though
thev were caused bv the adjust
ment nropram inst ta keen the
thinking straight, here are few
figures: m 1900 New England
had 1911 active spindles con-
suming 1909 900 bales Of cotton;
the south had 1883 spindleS con-
Stunning 1 sos 900 bales. In 1925
New England had 1875 active
spindles consuming ONLY lists, 900
bales, while the south had 1882
spindles CONSUMING 4. 400 900 bales.
And don't YOU think that rayon
NAV have had something to do
with the cotton diffaculties?
..Evan u,hen Il. q necessary ia
t,,rn r. Sar M cotton r. draw
tsa rfnI oeneraiities 10 $condem,
tha Mhaef nrnSrann IN tha inter
sst ~ stro irht thinkinp the ven
ere,it;ae shn,,id Ia hased ,,nnn
facts ~ - =
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III SPY t. ~ xoa y. ca .1sat p.e
IaIed stateMent We uss assums
INA tnat your a.saSA az. In tas p,S e h,'f
~ ~ Wy u tlle collss = IVY
an0tner eHort Oh yOur 1917 .so
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