The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1962-07-26
Editorial Comment
PLIGHT OF THE SMALL AMERICAN FARMER

he IS
has been so classified equally many times
He has Hck, Hayseed Sodbuser dumb smart
and even intelligent He has been CLASSIFIED as
Sponger Lazy Shfless Independent AMBIGUOUS ana even d
good citizen occasions
Yes there me like the farm and ne even look
- H. the firm He was the guIbe guy county fair with
the high pants ceuOd collar blue denim sn
and who suicoat he owned the one
81 for his wedding He was the guy bought
ali medicines fancy gadgets half dozen hambur
gers slipped the to the imported ex
Otto dancers after telling good the cattle
or hog
He was the guy got up to bed with
the after putting in Il to 10 long hours OF hb,
and harvesting who ne cleared fve
or six hundred dollars year of home
grown produce fruit and vege
tables with homecured hams bacon and
possibly couple of sogaon crooks OF
or saiedown meat barrels of flour that's the
guy and counted his blessings during the long
had had successful year and re had done
L al on
He had of subsidies. alOmt eminent
controls dream that he or r. dren would he
raised wha he and much as he wanted
to He with his neghbOr and his = town And
he tell who the Seer G. Agriculture was
Maybe there wasn't any for all he knew"
Today we find ourselves in peculiar circumstance In ha
we have asked for and gotten what we don't like and don't want
Take the American farmer instance few years back
when government extending helping hand ana II sun
is the farmer was 10 hold out his hand and accept the
giyeawsy or and is called Not that ne didn't
need all know appeared at the time TO be the only way
ne could operate What he failed to realize In spite
of the many warnings that when the government throws any
money into the kitty armu of strings attached
provision that will have the final ayso in whatever
operation il is preserving"
particularly the government was pay
ing production in phase of farming
industry Then when the war was over and with everything
and production and paying high wages
we found living high off the hog but with diminishing
market with a surplus of everything
thing considered by the government or many
OF the producers for government responsible in
tracing involved in increased production was
that plans day when the inevitable cut
hack 1929 and $780, had been complete
that circumstance about in some
different Nevertheless the government and we
supposed that government found ourselves
high pocketfu deyaluaed dollars and all the
equipment world produce So the governmental
experiment began and is still going despite the expense
and failures of both parties.
Yes today we find the small independent all but
gone wohorse farmers 90 40 go po
tato grain farmers: half dozen good milk
and chickens Rarely even find
down pork hams and bacon
garden vegetables pile of sand the root cellar
floor You can't find a root cellari
Today is all big operation with two. three and four rac
and trucks Old Dobbn he is just horse
for and the old modboad pillow is found
only in agricultural Everything the farm is highly
mechanzed pretty much automatic And why not? We
world and beings Of auto
mstsi
We have mortgaged fruits of the abors of
themselves and what be
free way of mortgaged the wealth
children chdrens children Now,
is How long continue under such policy
bankruptcy individual purpoe7 How long
choose individuals? This truly
something TO think about
How long can We remain Well. let's face 1t WE
FREE And haven't been free the first
day helping the farmer the businessman and all
przes gave up unsupectins and unknownsy
possibly that the day