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Show AS I SEE IT The Eisenhower and Benson administrations have the farmer and livestock men in the gutter. And it doesn't seem likely that we are going to get any help from our Farm Bureau, Farmers Union or the National Grange. I see that the National Grange had their Convention in California lately. They came out against any tax cut for fear of inflation. Of course that would help the farmer and livestock peorv'e. The big farm bureaus have ok-eyed ok-eyed the free trade policy of the Eisenhower Administration. You know Benson claims we have a great surplus of cattle here In America. Yet our import of cattle and livestock products were up 30'. c this year. We haven't a surplus sur-plus of sheep, yet our foreign neighbors have demoralized our market. There seems to me to be a lot of double talk and no action to remedy the situation. I am sure that there is something some-thing they could do that would he.'p the situation. At least they could put a floor under the price of commodities such as they have under wages and many of the manufacture outlets. The big steel companies raise the workers wages and Immediately Immed-iately raise the price of steel to cover the wage Increase. But the poor farmer has to keep struggling strug-gling to do more himself as he doesn't get enough from his crops to pay wages and taxes. As I see it, the farmer and live-stock live-stock people should vote against any free trade and demand that we have a fair trade accord inp to the cost of production. Wc should keep our American markets mar-kets for the American people. And stop sending billions of dollar? over to our foreign neighbors It order to have friendship there. think that this money could br used here for water and road do velopmcnt. Clarence Lamoream |