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Show PAGE SIX THE JOURNAL, DISCUSSION OF LIVE ISSUES A DO FARMERS NEED PRICE own partly or largely their fault. There has undoubtedly been a good deal of speculation in land, and too heavy mortgaging of farm propei ty as the con- sequence of prosperity, but there have also been numerous natural and economic causes concerned with the farmers hardships, and there seems to be little disposition to aigue that the government should do what it can to ameliorate conditions for him. The principal question is what form this proposed re- should take. Various mealief sures have been suggested the Norbeck bill, which, some of its opponents argued, would benefit only the fanners of th; northwestern states, and not all of them; the McNary-Ha- u gen bill, which at one time seemed fairly certain of passage, but whose chances are now dubious ; war-tim- e rather bill', the Norris-Sinclaconceded i generally which, it has practically no chance at an. The farmers themselves are net united on what they want, but the proposal that comes up- con g tinuallv is that of various forms, its m one of and ir - price-fixin- The idea that seems to have gained most general currency, and the one that is partially, at least, embodied in the McNarry-Haugebill, is that of basing of farm products on their prices n trade practices and class lation. TRADE RECORD FIXING LAW? Samvel Adams, Dikkctob Gcbebal, Uscle Sam's Votebs, Washington, One of the greatest problems that has been before the prsent Congress is that of relief for the The agrircultural interests. fanners of the nation aie suffering as they have seldom suffered before, and it is not much of a solution to say that is is I Friday, May LOGAN CITY. CACHE COUNTY, UTAH past 10 years was treble that of the Canal it decade preceding the opening of the canal says the Trade as m the jecor(j suggests, pbe National City Bank its open- 0f New .York, that the gateway from all opened by our Panama Caaal has had much to do with this big in- - In the 10 years' dnoe the open legis- of the Panama ing . is 3 times as mack decade preceding ing. Merchandise parts of th' world nrl PorUtion uted to E grope, Canada and crea4 portation of the products of other Latin America. Nearly a partJ of the worM ported lince the opening of The principal articles of the 000,000 worth of foreign products dollars worth to iho rami. ' which we imported and . wheat prices are fixed by peon, coolie and peasant labor, and so long as they are fix ed to apply as well to this country as to apply to our exportable surplus of wheat, the farmer is brought into competition with the lowestjpaid labor of other lands. It is impossible for him to continue in business and to maintain an American standard of living under such conditions. 7. Tariffs to benefit industry have largely put the farmer where he is they have been so large as to bring about the disproportion between the rewards of agriculture and the rewards of business. To readjust this b! a method similar to that which caused the trouble is fair. 6. World $77,-billi- on re-e- x- ld other parts of the world in 1923 were india rubber, wool, silk, hides and skins, furs, fibers, tobacco. Foreign merchandise exported fruits, coffee, sugar, and art works, from the United States in 1923 ex- The total of the group vegetable ceeded that of 1922 by more than food products which atd was double that includes fruits, coffee, tea, food oils, $10,000,000, of the year in which the Panama grains, vegetables and raw sugar, Canal was opened and the World was in round terms $20,000,000 in War begun. In fait, pur exporta- - 1923. Of coffee alone the total of foreign merchandise in the exported was nearly 34 million 10 years since the beginning of dollars, most of it coming from 1914 is nearly a billion dollars and Latin America and passing To is 3 times as much in value as in Canada, Mexico, Cnba and limited the 10 years preceding 1914 which quantities to Europe. The $5,000,-wmarked by the double stimulus 000. worth of bananas to the trade, the opening came chiefly from Central America of the Panama Canal, and the be- - and were sold in large part to The $6,000,000 worth of ginning of the World War. The Canada. total value of foreign merchandise foreign hides and skins exported exported from the United States in were sold to many countries especi-th- e calendar year 1923 was $76,- - ally Europe and Canada. Of the sugar imported from Cuba 795,000, while the highest record of our prior to the opening about 1J4 million dollars worth was of the canal was in the fiscal year sent out in the raw state in which 1913 $37,378,000, against a little it was imported, and nearly $30,-lethan $24,000,000 in 1900, $13,- - 000,000 worth was exported in the 000,000 in 1890, and $12,000,000 in refined form and classified as " mestic merchandise since all ar-How much of this big increase ticks which are changed by the in our trade was due to manufacturing process in the United the Panama Canal and how much States are classed as domestic to the repression of the products in our export records trade of the European countries re- - and not included in the tables of suiting from the war cannot be de- - foreign merchandise exported. Most termined but the fact that our expor- - of this $30,000,000 worth of refined tation of foreign merchandise in the sugar, which was brought in the re-ti- on as 8. There is no question as to the equity of the farmer's claim Either his jeturn must be scaled up or that cf industry an labor should be sealed down. NO The proposed plan sim.pl adds another special privilege tc The those already existing. farmer's feel that the government has done something to other classes and want to have something done specifically for them. The question as to their right to relief is placed almost entirely on the condition of privilege accorded to other groups. Relief under this plan would very likely mean injustice to some other class. 2. A circle of privilege legist lation would probably beile result. No sooner does one class obtain some gifffrom the government than others demand something for themselves. The situation develops into a vicious circle with every economic inter1. ss do-18- Is The Keynote To Your Needs crude state from Cuba, refined in our own factories and then sent abroad, went to Europe, Canada,. South America, and limited quantities to Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Of the 554 million dollars worth a very large of rubber part went to Canada, with limited quantities to Europe and South America. Of the 3 million dollars worth of foreign furs passing to other countries, the bulk went to Europe and Canada. Of the 3)4 million dollars worth of raw silk! went to( exported, over one-ha-lf Canada and the remainder chiefly to Europe. - Of the wool imports nearly 8 million dollars worth was sent to other markets, chiefly those of Canada and the, European countries. Of the 67 million dollars worth of foreign merchandise exported from the United States in the calendar year 1922 (the latest year foe which details are available) 34 million dollars worth went to our neighbors of North America, 29 millions to Europe, 2 millions to South America, 1)4 millions to Asia and Africa, and less than a quarter of a million dollars worth to Africa The principal countries to which this foreign merchandise was sent, stated in order of magnitude, were Canada 24 million dollars worth. Great Britain 9 millions, France 6 millions, Germany 6 millions, Mexico 4 millions, Cnba 3)4 million, Netherlands 2)4 millions, and Bel-- 1 gium lyi millions, these figures be- -' ing of course in very round terms.' The United States now holds second rank as an exporter of foreign merchandise, being still materially exceeded by Great Britain, though our percentage of increase since 1913 is far greater than that of any of our rivals in this line of inter- PREPARE FOR 1 - - 58.25 foot-and-mou- th - 1 - ar peraj th 1 11 j beco- I i en-so- H - SPECIAL yz mains the principal function of government even in the most peaceable of nations. Our own federal , government in 1920 spent 93 per cent of its revenues on wars, past,- - present, and future, while devoting one per cent useful to scientific research and -- s. 1 b- MACARONI pkgs. Macaroni the wolf was tamed into the faithful dog and the .wild elephant converted tnto a beast of burden so man may tame the engines of war and extract medicaments from the most th A ,oc MILL IRC. , , rly - 7 Peas - HALF PRICE th bf-'ea- ,or $x .00 Extra Sifted Ladies Coats, Suits Dresses th is-mu- 4 Cans Price Sale . dis-strou- Peas for $1.00 J s oo EXTRA SIFTED PEAS 3 Large Bottles Strawberry - foot-and-mou- SEASON 8 Cans Extra Sifted $2.25 TAMED INVENTIONS pic-tured- FRUIT SEEDED RAISINS 10 Large Pkgs. Raisins $1 5 Large Pkgs. Raisins 5 lbs. Fancy Preserving SUGAB Onlyv. 25 lbs. Fine Preserving SUGAR Only. STRAWBERRY JAM Coming inventions cast their shadows before. Some of the mos useful of the gifts of pre-wpower purchasing science were first revealed to a procedure which would mean mankind in a malevolent rather the maintenance of domestic est continually battling to obthan a benevolent aspect- But prices on a higher level than the tain larger special privileges for even the most destructive agenfl McNary-Hau-ggworld price. Th& itself. Iri a woid. no solution is cies may in the course of time be bill has- - been endorsed by possible 11 such a plan ; it can without the ' breakfast sausages brought into the constructive Science by (By Service) in' many Jfafm organizations, only prove a palliative at best. About the time that it became on the plate beside them. Wool- service of the human race. As cluding the Farm Bureau Fede3. Various other plans havfc clear to' that the Uni- en .clothes would cos j) more and ration. On the other hand, it is bpert- suggested by experienced ted Stateseverypne disstated that' ftaVe wbuld t6 take a altogether it is a' harrow'iflg bitterly op 0 seel by oth'erS. Some farmers it is1 riot necessary to hand " .if ;! Mohler ease Was Dr.' the late ,in suspected, of, ttye' measures for retsoring seize Upon this one, even though with the Kaiser, unpleasantness a bureau chief As Jbad as all that? Well, hot asked 'that results of the tests the pis war balance between the it has been backed by powerful in- - the Navy Department gain- quite as, bad perhaps as the com- be reported .to .him promptly. prices of farm products and the agricultural interests. ' 8t must ed the everlasting gratitude of plete absence of the breakfast The next products of industry are given not be forgotten tha a good all Washwas day, Fiday, Americans still could One have good by ordering sausages." t below, and in a parallel column farmers hemselvevs are a shipload and a ingtons holiday birthday many or two of machine meat and milk at a price. But it some of the reasons why the not sold on the idea, or that everywhere, but early Saturday on his would be a price that would came The simply guns value. doubtful of is plan the farm legislation enacted by word as a gentleman thatpersonal the message, Suspicions bill the disease his If pinch. farmer s contention is that the confirmed. the last The Bureaus Congress, ' though scale of selilng prices is out of farmers thought they had got would be paid when war was once really gets loose in this army was in ordered instantly declared to and induswould we have finally Congress pay to action. Three California coun alignment with those in through a valuable program, did provided the money to cany it country,' more for every quart of milk try. not work out up to expectation. on. were absolutely quarantin and every pound of meat that we ties YES 4. Middlemen would profit movement of livestock in the ed, Another war, of a different used, how' much more can only others was 1. There i3 diffeient price le- more than the farmers by the restricted, experiencvel for farm products and for in- scheme, say some of the farmer kind, is now waging in Ameri- be guessed at, but probably at ed men w'ere rushed to the scene milk 5 for cents least a quart dustrial products; this is unfair opponents of the bill, who call can territory and another burthe Government Print10 cents a pound for meat. tf action, tq the farmer, and he should be it a subsidy to millers to be eau chief, this time in the civil and Office in Washington broke ing protected from its ill effeeja. The paid by wheat growers, one to service, went the navy man even Not counting the milk thatice-is all records for service to the debill determines the meat packers to be paid by on$ better. He not only ordered manufactured into butter, McNary-Hauge- n partments by getting out 'what money prices should be for the livestock and hog growers his supplies without waiting for cream, condensed milk, cheese, bureau quarantine order over at would we and that have so on, agricultural products',to equal and one to the manufacturers a declaration of war but mobilizMohler told and night, Congress in purchasing power what the of cotton goods to be paid by the ed his forces and threw them at rate a billion doljars to charge that he would need a million dol; if disease w'e farmer received in prewar days; cotton growers. The millers, it the enemy the instant his pres- to lars more and the for probably include the manufactured milk, it then establishes a buying cor- is said, would export wheat in ence as known. ex share of the governments milmarkthe form of flour, rather than poration to maintain the Whats the war about, and who thac would make another but that he could not penses. meat increased lion. bill, to as For a such the yield export wheat at the world price. is the bureau chief who has the et at price hold up the campaign to wait for that purchasing power. It is 5. Economic laws work them- courage to order his army into we could add another billion and the money. ecconsider of selves out in time. If the farm- action without waiting for some- a half. In fact, we might adjusting merely a means This sort of business costs a onomic disturbances. ourselves fortunate if we got lot of ers price level is low now, it will one to tell his to act ? money. Men must be 2. It would mean $1,000,000,-- " eventuallv work back to a level No if you were in California off with three billion dollars, drafted to fill the ranks, for the 000 a year to the farmers and comparable to that of ether you would not have to ask what nearly as much as the whole Uni- Bureau has only a skeleton Government now everybody would share in their groups, and attempts to inter- the war is, for that is where it ted States disease-wa- r in costs us every year. We could organization Not increased prosperity says Gray fere with the course of normal ec is. It is a fight to out times. must salthe peace stamp only not look for much help from forSilver, Washington representa- onomic processes ofen prove dreaded disease aries and traveling expenses be eign countries- for the disease paid, but disenfectants tive of the American Farm Buin in livestock which from must be came 6. Farmers have done little to in nearly every part reau Federation, in discussing on a navy boat which takes its toll the Orient laborers to dig hired bought be and might the plan. He says it would have help thmcsolves, docked atMare Island Navy cf the world Our countrr keens trenches in which the condemn- the for believe we government because itsclf free helped them last year $325,000,-- good policy to require some evidence on their Yard iri Sap Fi'ancisco Bay. that it is wiser to spend a few ed animals aree buried and the 000 on wheat alone. From disease the the Yard Navy million dollars occasionally than 3. The necessity of price re- part that they are not merely for . There got into a herd of hogs, from to isr-- no compro- , is a It genersubsidy. , is real seeking have to suffer the loss of paid enough. adjustment to there houses the at slaughter is that farming Wheat should have sold for ally accepted West Berkeley and from there to many millions or even billion,! known to have the disease is $1.50, not $1, and corn 16 cents suffering very largely from inefevery year. herds. killed, the skins slashed with a bushel more, on the basis of ficient management, and the dairy This is the fourth time in 25 is who in Oh, well, interested knives, the carcassees covbe not should whole sharp pencountry j)re-wpurchasing power. sick cows and pigs? years that this scourge has in- ered with quick lime and all ineffifarmer's the alized for 4. The plan is simply a tariff Not so fast. T)o you think 20 vaded the United States. It came buried in a trench six fdfet deep. measure, designed to make pro- ciency. 7. The net effect would be cents a high price for a quart of in 1902. in 1908 and in 1914.1 It is a public measure and the tection possible for agriculture; or 45 cents a pound too This outbeak has caused great-- apprased value of the animals whatever money is lost on the merely to lead toward further milk to pay for good roast beef? er lossees than those of 1902 and destroyed is borne equallv by the much levels still and inflation higher exportable surplus of wheat, in Ho much more .would you like 1908,. but it is Government and 'the more desi priees: It which must be sold at the world to Because more you will serious as the oni of 1914 which state a back to to real pay? rable preto get back allocated be would price, 22 states and paidt Before President Coolidge had go spread over 'the entire crop. It would not war purchasing power for all of certainly have to pay, or disto the District of a chance to affix his its respects if move to stimulate the without, signature involve expense to the govern- - us than ever gets a firm foothold, in Columbia before it was finally to the bill appropriating the ment, since the government ment toward higher price levels ease the cattle herds of the United stamped out. It has been confin- money asked for, Mohler had would merely act as middleman,' in this way. States. The disease does not af- ed to one state, California, and obligated the government for a The best 8. half remedv at is Amand the added expense to beto more than the million dollars erican consumers would mere - wy measure. If the stabilized fect human beings, and it is not there it bids fairchiefremain, Washin bureau cause a us. let is a dollar ofteen fatal but good thing, that congress intended to give among livestock, the people would ly mean that him. Next he asked for a milbe bearinga cost that now rests have it for all the people, and it is one of the most highly con- ington was ready and watching and because he did not wait un- lion and a half more and confor innot known diseases specialized and it merely group. tagious on the agricultural entirely terests. spreads like a forest fire in the til congress gave him tlje money gress promised it readily with no UTAH IDAHO CENTRAL most unaccountable ways if it is to go ahead. That man was Dr. objection from anyone exceept 5. Protection is afforded oth RAILROAD WILL HAVE not held in check. Cattle which John R. Mohler, Chief of the one irascible member. is er interests. Labor protected Bureau of Animal Iudustry of EXCURSION RATES it run a very high fever, Mr. as Thousands of animals of all get law, the immigration by TO OGDEN ON DECORSALE me-lame and has slobber profuse- the United States Department kinds have been slaughtered and Silver points out; industry its tariff. The farmer has not ATION DAY. FINAL RETURN ly. Often the hoofs drop off. of Agriculture. buried. After several flare-up- s Adv Fat cattle lose flesh rapidly and About noon on Tuesday, Feb-- the disease now appears to be had epecial favors of this kind, LIMIT JUNE 2nd. milk cowa drop off in their milk ruary 21, Dr. Mohler received an Under control and the federal but the conidtion he now faces An with a flow or stop milking entirely. makes some sort of action nec- official te.legram from California and state veterinary forces in electromagnet If the disease were allowed to describing the symptoms ofj the battle zone are now easary. Agriculture has as long, llat face has been design-muc- h sick cows in a daily in gaged in a grim effort to destroy right to compensating fac-- 1 ed bv a Chicago man for the spread over thee entire country, tor as other groups have to handling of sheet metal it is doubtful it we could evpr get Alameda (kninty irfjalL traces, of the disease ar THE 100 national trade. rid of it. Most of our herds would have it every now and then, none would be safe and the amount of meat and milk produced would be very much less than it now is.' Not only would there be less milk and beef but less mutton and jamb. less ham and bacon, f ewer .pork chops and sparer ribs, and buckwheat cakes woiild look lout of place uv, OUR ADVERTISING Foreign Merchandise Exported From The U. S. D. C. 30. baneful drugs. mans most Steel, work. metal, made its appearance in Never before has the world the form of swords aud spearheads for the killing of man. seen such feverish activity in it for the scientific investigation and inNow we employ skeleton of skyscrapers and vention as during the Great War never such liberal governmental steamships. Petroleum was first employed support ; never such enterprise on the part of as Greek fire for getting ships and on fire. Now it is employed hs! the citizens. And so it has often fuel for the propulsion of ships. been in the past. Mars has The horse was employed upon always been able to enlist the the field of battle long tfore energies of man with more suche was Rut to work upon, the cess than Minerva or the Muses! harvest fields He ;wW. iQrfet Shaw.i'Wboi' sometimes assumes hitched to a war chariot and only the role of the devils disciple, later was he set to the humble has in his Man and Superman and useful task of pulling a plow. put into the mouth of Mephisto-phele- s a caustic comment on war Judging by the Egyptian and a as to mans inventive chariot the stimulus Assyrian inscriptions was the first wheeled vehicle. powers. but has developed in the course "I have examined Mans of centuries into the cart, the wonderful inventions. And I tell carriage , and the you that in the arts of life man most efficien of the invents nothing pbut in the arts ancient road builders, more effi- of death he outdoes Nature hercient indeed than most modem self, and produces by chemistry peoples, were the Romans, and and machinery nil the slaughter their famous system of high- t of plague, pestilence and famine. ways, connecting the frontiers I The peasant I tempt today eats of the empire with, the forum and drinks what was eaten and of the capital, was designed for drunk by the peasants of ten armies, not agriculturists-I- t thousand years ago; and the has often happened in his- house he lives in has not altered tory' that what was designed t o as much ih a thousand centuries kill is retained to cure. Many of as the fashion of a ladys bonnet our modem medicines were em- in a score of weeks. But when he ployed by savages for poisoning goes out to slay, he carries a their arrow points. Strychnine marvel of mechanism that lets and aconite had this ill omened loose at the touch of his finger orgin. 'Another arrow poison, all the hidden molecular energiobtained by the Ravages from es, and leaves the javelin, the cassava juice, is hydrocyanic arrow', the blowpipe of his fathacid, which in the hands of the ers far behind. In the arts of modern metallurgist extracts peace Man is a bungler. I have of the gold supply of seen his cotton factories and the the wrorld. i like, with machinery that a Arsenic, winch during the greedy dog could have invented Renaissance was the fashionable if it had wanted money instead poison is now used for the more of food. I know his clumsy typelaudable purpose of poisoning writers and bungling locomm plant pests and the parasites of tives and tedious bicycles ; they man. are toys 'compared to the Maxim Distilled alcohol, introduced by gun, the submarine torpedo boat. the alchemists under the mis- There is nothing in Man's inleading name of the elixir of dustrial machinery but his greed life, has done untold harm to and sloth ; his heart is in his the race. Yet w'hen our gasoline weapons. surrly runs short, alcohol may But as wo, have seen, the prove to be our main reliance for bright ideas that have been autos and airplanes. Once - the struck out of mans brain in' sh world stops drinking it will have of conflict may persist to ' alcohol to burn. . enlighten the raco, God hath, "" IVe owe our wireless to the made man upright but they have late war, and the art of aviation, sought out many inventions for wrhich played an- important the purpose of doing injury to part in that conflict, has not yet their fellow-mebut often, found a place of importance in these like Balaams curseJ. have, civil life. turned otit to ibe blessing; : Government itself is a war we may regret that Though baby, born from the need of science should sa often show her unified control in time of danger-Th- sinister side, yet w'e must agree earliest rulers were .the that civilization does 'sometimes chiefs who defended theiri? folk go forward by riding on a against attack or led them on self-sacrifi- ce , car-Th- nine-tent- hs the-cla- - n, - e pow-derca- rt: predatory raids against their neighbors for the procurement Kansas Slate Teachers' of booty, especially women and lege has more calls for teachers children. of mlisic, with other ' Government, once started as a subjects, than or any other comjvar measure in' emergencies, bination. proved useful for the maintenSixteen thousand additional ance of order and the promotion seats are to be provided for Chof the general welfare, and hence icago school children in 1924 by came to.be regarded as iudispen-siibl- n 4jie erection othe 16 buildings to civilization Ktii v'nr tv juTiCTmder construction. 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