The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-15

farm people.
To illustrate: If all the laws for
agriculture were eliminated from the
law books today, wheat would go to
| 25c a bushel; cotton prices, corn
prices, and tobacco prices would come
| tumbling down. Meat products and
dairy products would not go down at
this time because of a great demand
abroad for them; and because that de-
mand calls for the products, the price
stays up But it is only staying up
because the government is buying
those products and giving them away
to foreign countries under the Lease
Lend Act. That is a temporary econ
omy, and that is a false economy, and
will only last so long as the present
war emergency and the aftermath of
feeding hungry, Europe exists.
Big business is still in the saddle;
w business is reaping and will reap
tremendous profits during this emer-
gency Big business wrote the pres
ent new Income Tax Bill, which
passes too much of the load on to the
low-income people of this nation. The
low-i income people were not effective
ly organized to speak for themselves
on the Income Tax Bill and with their
views absent, the congress listened
more to the big boys of big business
and wrote an Income Tax Bill which
will go down in history as a shameful
imposition on the unprotected people
of this country. There is nothing we
can do about that. The bill has
passed and the President has signed
it. The President asked for fair
income tax bill and the congress gave
the nation an unfair one.
Now, let's get back to the farm
family Mans eternal struggle is to
maintain the home for the wife and
the children. The home is his castle;
it is his United States; it is his coun-
try; it is his democracy. To the ex-
tent that he is protected in that home
and the nations laws make it possible
for him to do a decent, hard days
work and receive a fair return for it
Ito that extent, he has security; he
has a democracy; he has a United
States, and he is good citizen. And
we want to talk about that home Sc
curity.
First of all, let's quickly dispose
of the present laws for farmers, which !
provide credit needs and price pro-
lection. There is much ado about |
pattiro Q6O IF paritv Joano On five |
of the many farm commodities. The
Farmers Union asked for 1000 pro-
gram instead of an $3.50 program, but |
we testified that the philosophy was
and would not last We |
are not opposing $50 loans on five
send, but they should have been 1000.
We supported the $50 rather than
have nothing, but we insisted that it
ought to be 1000.
We also testified before the con-
gress that the programs could only be
that one day, congress,
in a spasm of alleged economy, would
write off the present programs as too
costly and too burdensome to the
Treasury of the United States. Labor
loes not depend on an $50 loan for
It's annual wage and then ask con-
sress to appropriate, as subsidy, the
1870.
Now, let's get back to the home,
where we can talk to father and
mother about their home and whether
,r not they are going to live there
many years. Surely, we haven't for
gotten the terrible years of mortgage
foreclosure which were responsible
or making so many of the okies who
vent west. Fifty years ago, we called
hose people who went west pioneers,
celebrated in song and story. These
after years, as the mortgage invest
nent system foreclosed on the farm
IS result of low prices, we forgot the
IGNORED name of pioneer and we call
hen okies. Having no land to settle
IN in the far west, they live in tents
nd huts erected of tin, or whatever
material the family could find to shell