Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-11


Farmers Holiday Association have
been sent copies of resolutions
passed at the convention of the AS
ISOLATION held in st. Paul June 20.
Among these is Resolution No. 1,
which is pertinent to farmers of
this section and which is here
with published. The resolution
has to do with the Federal Feed
and Seed Loans and is as follows:
Whereas, the farmers of these sew
eral states have had crop failures or
partial crop failures over a period of
years, owing to drouth, and
Whereas, said farmers, almost con-
tinuOusly during period of fifteen
years, have been compelled to market
| their produce at price below the
cost of production, and
Whereas. the result has been that
the Indebtedness of such farmers has
| risen and the value of their lands has
fallen to the point where large pOr-
tion of such farmers are on the point
of losing their farms, and
Whereas, it is essential to the build
ing of a strong and self-respecting
citizenship that the farmers retain
ownership of the lands they cultivate,
and
Whereas, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration holds crop
mortgages on the crops of thousands
of distressed farmers, payable as soon
as their grain has been threshed, and
Whereas, there is at the present
time promise of an abundant harvest,
and
Whereas, it is likewise indicated
that the buShel price of all grains
will be low, unless fixed by the United
States government, and
Whereas, the processing tax has
lowered the price of the farmers
products by substantially the amount
of such tax with the result that the
farmer in truth and in fact pays the
tax and derives no compensating ben
eft therefrOm, and
Whereas, it is accordingly apparent
that the processing tax is not solu-
ton for the farmers problems, and
Whereas, the President of the
United States has indicated an in
terest in restoring the price level of
the years during which the greater
part of the farmers debts were in
Cured, thereby giving the farmer an
opportunity to pay his debts in dollars
of the same size as the dollars he
borrowed, and
Whereas, interest rates on the farm
er's Indebtedness have not fallen to
an extent at all commensurate with
the fall in price of the farmers
products;
Be 1t Resolved, by the Farmers
Holiday Association of the States of
Minnesota, Iowa. North Dakota, South
Dakota, and Wisconsin, in convention
assembled. this the twentieth day of
June, 1885, that we demand of the
Congress and President of the United
States, respectively, to pass and APP
prove laws as follows:
1. Authorizing the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration so to
administer the seed loan act as to
save men, women and children rath-
er than dollars, ard farm homes
rather than government balances;
and. specifically, to authorize said
Relief Administration at the option
of the farmer, to accept a bushel
for bushel in payment of such
seed loans in lieu of a money pay
ment at such time as farmers gen
orally receive cost of production for
the commodities which they pro-
duce for sale.
2. Repeating the Processing tax
3. Fixing the price of the farm
ers staple products at a level pay
ing the full cost of production in
Guiding a moderate return on the
investment and a reasonable wage
to the farmer and the members of
his family.
4. Authorizing federal loans to
farmers on real estate security on
the basis of the Frazier-Lemke
Bill.
5. Authorizing a suitable federal
agency so to control the volume of
money and the extention of credit
as. first to restore the price level
to the level at which the greater
portion of the debts of the farmers
of the United States were created,
secondly, to keep the average price
level stable and thereby eliminate
one of the main causes of periods of
| depression, thirdly, demanding that
those farmers having drouth relief
feed loans from the Federal Farm
Credit Administration have the
privilege and option to pay such
loans through work In lien of a