The Sidney herald., 1961-06-14
But he said he will listen?

and appoint them and discharge tbaro
as well. And they will get UP to $50 per
deim and expenses only as long as no
thinks he needs them. Besides. if will
look rather silly to consumers to see
about $50 different so-called commoditv
groups on the government payroll. each
writing it's own ticket on how much IN
get out of the Federal Treasury, unless
he pretendS to listen!
But if, in fact, these hand picked COM
mittees were actually 10 have the power
worthwhile to ponder Congressman
Charles M. leagues question which he
posed to Freeman why not let every
other group, union or corporation. write
their own ticketS?"
But why, then. is such a fuss BEING
made that the farmers" will wri4e
their own program commodity by
commodity!
This is a deluSion - pure and simple
These schemes are going to be Thought
up," "Written-up" and "preSsumed-un"
by the Secretary of Agriculture. The So
called farmer committees are advisory
only = and their advice doesn't have TO
be taken. Remember - these committees
are all appointed by the Secretary from
nominees by his machine who. when
elected, are on his government payroll,
too.
Is the commodity bY-commoditY ap-
proach sound?
That depends on the purpose the plan
nerS have in mind. Let's take wheat
$1,000 4hA ~Ahn~0A fA- wI@-L
three -price system, now advocated by
those favoring H. r. 6400. This means
the Secretary will set one price for CITY
folks, another price for exports anc
another for feed grain. Feed wheat
would be priced cheapest and Thrown
ON the market from the West to depres.
feed prices in the Middle West. This
would stimulate the production of porl
and depreSS the prices for cattle in tht
Great Plains or poultry prices in the
East
Each of these commodity group
would be forced to demand a plan T.
compensate for its losses. Thus, eacl
would be forced by government actor
to finally come, for economic reasons
5 hat in hand, for a Federal handout
: That's a dream situation for those VIII
want centralized power! And Congress
, men would be hard put to veto the plan
against their constituents when tn
: government got them into the mess i
the first place. So, Step-by-Step eac
: group would be forced to take subsidie
e that come from the US. Treasury an
e the consumer would pay the bill - wit
more taxes.
n This doesn't make sense!
J. 1t does to those who want to fore
farmers = Step-by-step, commodity-b.
commodity - into the position of d.
handing more Federal aid; to for,
farmers to become completely depel
dent ON and subservient to centralize
% government, instead of the market sy
ten.
lie Keep in mind, the Secretary of Ayr
S. culture is asking for complete authorit
IS that will permit him to regulate the si
"a of farms, the amount of income IL
rs practices to be employed and who shou.
n go into agriculture. In addition, IL
D. proposal permits the disbursement
o. Federal funds for loans to buy up vir
,e ually any or all marketing or procesSir
lg facilities in the name of cooperativeS.
Aside from the d~ictatorial socialist
10 aspects of this scheme. isn't il expensive,
rs No has given any estimate of cos
1g Furthermore, no budgetary procedul
ry by the Congress is provided for. This
back-door financing at its worst = al
obviously at its biggest.
al But will Congress actually buy III
ty legislation - pass il?
to Time will tell. 1t lis hardly conceivab
that any reasonable person will be for
n DIT Hnwu 49, 1rox 1900 In
OF who somehow feel you can make Socia
ne ism work. Most of them know bette
But whether the farmers and consume
o. know it whether they will mobili
IS against any army of hundreds of thou
&c andS of government propaganda agen
C and employees - is open to oueStio
ny But the planners will try to win part
p the scheme i'm any case.
,es How do you predict that?
'or Ueft-wingers have a standard techr
que: ask for the impossible and cor
promise. Then they always end up wi
ial more power than they had and the pe
ey pie end UP with less!
40 What are some of the features OF !,
he so-called Agricultural Credit part OF =
"a bill?
as III d nutshell, IL puS government
tic. the way into farm finance and
m strikes a blow at our system of prone
He ing thrift and savings in the process
nhe How does fhis happen?
bic Perhaps a few examples will illuc,
the ate the point. Under current laws :
government can provide loans in oar
eral, only to those who cannot obts
Inc loans elsewhere at rates prevail;nn
h the area. This device, designed to p,
vent government from competing -
~ private credit or wrecking the w "
petitive credit system, is "out the W. ~
dow" in this bill. !"
Instead, under H. r. 64O0 tbo G,
rotary will decide if the farmer 90
a loan locally with an interest rate u
ing is reasonable" If interest Is nv y
ose sonable, according to Freeman the =
rover gets the money from the FL
Y courtesy and permission of HUMA