| Show i I I vA I VANS N OF f LVE VH MU H HI HIGHER H PRICES Howard Blames Capitalistic Monopoly and Organized Labor for H. H C. C L. L W WASHINGTON Aug 16 Unless Unless capitalistic monopoly and organized labor cease profiteering In goods and wages the next cycle Of the seasons will effect a condition of ot living Jiving now I undreamed of the senate and house agricultural committees were told to today today today to- to day by J. J R. R Howard president of ot the Iowa farm bureau federation Mr Howard appeared as spokesman for the committee recently appointed at a e a of ot farmers from Iowa Nebraska Indiana Ohio and Illinois Denying that tha t the farmers were re- re for present conditions Mr Howard said The high cost of ot living Is not d due e eto to lack of ot desire or effort on the part of farmers to produce to the their physical ability The tarm has as not struck walked out or otherwise slackened In production has He In Increased Increased increased In- In creased his effort 1 his ils operations operations operations opera opera- to the limit of ot physical p ability and financial credit mid striven to feed teed the world b be the world would fairly gladly and recompense him In Instead tead l he finds those who in their eagerness to find an answer on page 2 t. t WARNS OF EVEN Continued from page 1 1 where there Is non nope none to shun the real reat facts of ot the situation point to to Wm kim im with scorn and malevolence saying Thou art the culprit DUE TO STAGNATION The high cost of ot living Is due to toa toa toa a stagnation In production of manufactured manu manit- goods and prepared stuffs stutts Every jabor abor strike that shuts down any plant engaged In the preparation preparation preparation prepa prepa- ration of ot foods or the making of or clothing that that shuts down a a. mine or ormill ormill mill adds ot the high cost coat of or living If IOU capitalistic monopoly wants enough food tood produced that it may be fed red If It the ilie nothing do-nothing dawdlers want enough food produced so that they may occasionally eat let them stand forth now at this time when the farmer must determine his 1920 food production program and declare by deeds deeds cutting cutting out of profiteering In goods ana and wages going honestly to toI I the business of or preparing and purveyIng purveying purvey purvey- I ing the necessities of ot life ure going honestly honestly hon boo estly to the Job jol of or doing a 0 full days day's work for a full days day's pay their pay their willIngness willingness willingness will will- willI I to cooperate Failure of or these I forces to do this now will be a boomerang boomerang boomerang boome boome- I rang that ere the next cycle of or the seasons seasons will effect a condition of or livIng living living liv liv- ing now undreamed of or MIDDLEMAN BLAMED Mr Howard said the high cost of living was due to extravagant profits of ot middlemen failure of ot the American Ameri Amen can people to practice even ordinary economy In public and private lire life life and Industrial stocks Exportation of ot I food god clothing he said Was no nomore nomore more a It contributing cause than the heavy exports of or manufactured g goods I and machinery of which the farmer is a Il heavy he purchaser An embargo on foodstuffs to bring down t the e high cost of living ho he said aid will will be a as demoralizing to American agriculture as the embargo placed 1 on foodstuffs w was s to French agriculture In the tho time of ot Louis XIV Mr Ir Howard alSo deplored the veto of the act to the repeal daj daylight light saving sav say ing log law and said the presidents president's statement in his veto message In ef of- of feet placing agricultural production second in importance to industrial production would discourage many farmers and probably result In De Decreased e creased production on tho the farms farma |
