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Show GRAVE INJUSTICE ! BEING DONE TO WHEAT FARMERS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 In the statement regarding the wheat stand-ard stand-ard the senate committee said it be-1 lieved grave injustice was being done the farmer and might "continue to in jure not only agriculture but the entire nation as well." "While entirely sympathetic with the hardships which present prices cause the people of the city," aid the state-1 ment, "farmers are no less concerned with their own economic situation. "The powerful machinery of the gov ernment is now being set in motion to, bring to Justice those who arc guilty i of conspiring to re-strain trade and .ce I cure undue profit' But it must be remembered re-membered that this drive is now coming com-ing at a time when the great staple products of the farm are rroing to market mar-ket and that In selling the wheat crop, for instance, the farmer is selling his entire season's labor. This is an experience ex-perience with which the farmer is very familiar and he Instlnctlvelj connects it with the interests which in the past have pyramided their profits upon his production at the beginning of the marketing mar-keting season Barnes States Policy. "Julius H. Barnes, of the United States grain corporation, openly states thai his policy to resell wheat, curtail our foreign shipments and 'us the re-j sale of wheat to help control the do-1 mestic market price against further advances.' ad-vances.' The result of such policy together to-gether with the manipulation of a sys tern of grades and standards has been to reduce materially the farmers' income in-come and to deny him access to a free market where be can secure actual cost of production. . "We believe city people should know that owing to manipulation in administering admin-istering the grades and standards together to-gether with the damage done by hot weather to the maturing crops, the winter wheat producers are receiving as low as $1 15 a bushel- not the $L' 05 which Mr Barnes gives as a theoretical theoreti-cal average and that this year's crop may average not over $1 50 a bushel net. "City people should realize that tho effort that is being made by the government gov-ernment to restrict all or still further reduce the price at the farm must Inevitably In-evitably lead to denying the farmer living wages. "We at this ;ime shall insist on a rhange in the whpat standards so as not to penalize every grower of wheat Hundreds of millions of bushels of It wheat ha', e been shriv eled tn extrem' : heat this season which under the pros nt trading and disr ount rule? may do' average ihe producer 1 n a bush''! Authoritative investigators have fourJ & such wheat to !) of Hie highest milling JK value and it. is unthinkable that farm era should sustain a loss of from 5" A, to 75 rents a bushel by reason of the 1 available standards that have been W I tablished This a heat in large meas-I ure will gu into the production of the J best patent Hour which has been sold 1 to the consuming public at price? I based on No. 1 wheat "The producers are thereby defraud ed and the consumer receive no ben" 1 |