The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-05-17
Wyoming Officer
Answers Letter
FromLocaI Man

LOCdl Mdl1
IN answer to a letter from a
Hardin man who opposed his
views on subsidies Or a meat
! tax. Reuben ". Anderson, preSl-
dent of the wyoming Farm
Bureau Federation at Pine
Bluffs, Wyo., recently repileoa as
MANY thanks to you for your
Setter and the attitude therein.
You disagree with me violently
in the GOOD old American man
ner and you do it like a gentle
man. i
I certainly sincerely sympa-
| thize with all of you people on
a fixed income. 1t certainly
takes all the thrift and 1ngen-
| uity you can muster to make
both ends meet:
we should not forget that all
classes of people have their
| troubles. T am not alone when
it comes to trouble. Because of
a fast rising operating cost, ag-
| r%icultural net income has drop
ped rapidly the last year. Corp
| Grafton income has risen Is to
| 800 in the same time. Within
| the last 20 years several farm
| er-rancher outfits in my neigh
borhood have gone broke and
lost all they had. This same
thing by the thousands all over
the United States. ~
The question is, will price
| regulations and rationing help
| either YOU or myself. The people
of the wyoming Farm Bureau
Federation firmly believe that
the more governmental regula-
| ton we have the less you and
T will have to sell or buy with.
Everything you wish to buy
| will be regulated and soon there
will be nothing to buy. Have we
forgotten the last time so soon?
The signs in the buther'S win
| dow, 'No meat. Where are
your ration stamps?" When you
had to see this man or that one
in secret, to grease his palm to
get what you wanted.
During the last year there
were 500 reports of price regu-
| lations coming into the OPA
| office every day, being broken,
| and several thousand not re-
ported.
You say you favor a tax on
meat. Will that make it cheap
er to you? They will hire 100
900 empoyees to enforce this
tax. Will that help matters
any?
England, a democratic free
| people. have had price regula-
| lions for several years. You say
meat can be bought for 47c per
pound. In England that same
meat will cost you much more
and you can have only Ia pound
per week. One egg per week is
| all you are allowed under their
carefully regulated economy. Ev-
cry farmer and rancher is told
exactly what he can raise, what
he can sell and for what price.
how and when he can SOW,
with quotas for him.
IF he does not do so good and
| governmentgEi inspectors feel it
was his fault they take over
his farm andahe shifts for him
| self. -
You might say that is fine,
he had it coming, give some
J one else "a chance. Perhaps
| but it has rot helped the fixed
income fellow-iust made it
worse for him because he can
not buy what he wants at any
: price because it is not there to
buy. -
There is no place on earth
where an hours labor will buy
as much food as in the good
old .USA. An hours labor will
buy 200% more food here than
in Russia, 1000 more than in
England. On the same diet as
| the Chinese we could feed 500
million people in this country
with our present food supply.
Why a socialistic government
owned and regulated economy
to supplant the American way?
Under the free enterprise sys-
tenn we produce more steel than
| all the rest of the world. Eng
land owns the coal mines, gov
ernmental controlled. They pro-
duce one-fourth the coal per
man that we do with John
Lewis control.
The line of least resistance is
to ask the government to take
over everything and they are
ready to do Just that. Two
thousand additional civilia n
employees are being hired every
| day by our paternal Uncle Sam
| Governmental u lation is
| coming so fast it takes our
breath away. What can we do
to stop it?
If it continues to increase,
you will soon be told who you
can work for, where you shall
work and for how much. You
will be rationed a little of this
and that and our grand Amer
lean wcy will be Pore.
The scheme is always the
same, in every country where