Show AGI f Oi SC JED ED f organization n and be taxed up to 7 70 70 Well We'll sit It o out out t on on those lines Unes and believe beHove we will hang hans together where whereas where where- as the farmer will hang singly Now the farmer who thinks right hard has seen soen from past experience that his own organizations dribble dribbler fritter Critter and dissolve somebody In It weakens and In ll time a n dribble hero and a leak yonder and ami his organization tion Is 18 busted It Is la so 80 The farmer Carmer CarmerIs Is tho the poorest man of all to stay tied And he be sees against him a n well sewed sewed sewed sew sew- ed up nicely tucked in unit capably run and so compact that that maybe but few bonds if any dribble past at atthe atthe atthe the the bondholder knows that if It ho lasts out four four rounds he hewins hewins hewins wins the bout hands down The Tho consensus of opinion as we wo find it among the better more ful tul and pr prudent dent farmer Carmer is Ho Hoan How can an I get out of the busting sivo sive drainage district where it mh may y cost me up Ul to 70 7 into nto ml an individual contract for anything less And his whole is What less And i iI ItI if It f I sign up wilt Will ill neighbor John get a 1 a 11 better settlement than I got That That's s I what hes he's most scared of now Will I the fellow tellow who ho hangs bangs out ut get some some- things better They dont don't wa want t to stay at 70 0 And It if that 70 drainage drainage drain drain- drain I age association Is stayed with l b by bylaw bylaw law JM all aU of or that 70 JO may be he asked forin for forin in the tha next seven years the date the thelast thelast last Jast bond matures Now the tho farmer Carmer farm farm- er want that that He wants 33 years whatever he be can longer than seven His whole mind today day Is out of a bankrupt thing Into I a contract Just how he be will light is his main worry But that Is the swing of public opinion That Is the J objective of of the thinking king farmer armeT I It Is quite well settled too among the farmer mind that the h-e better farms must pay and will be e made to pay actual construction cost of r drain- drain age That this cant can't be evaded The the farms the tho- 1 I land and which neither eit er farmer nor Ilond- Ilond holder wants will go to pot and the I whole loss of the worthless stuff will practically be on th the bondholder u uness un- un less ess he le buys water forms a holding I company and puts outside men on onland I land and for which he has bought water And In the fight the bondholder can last out longer in the slug slugging because because because be be- be- be cause he has better wind wind and and and- a. a something to fall back on during thelong the thelong thelong long drawn out scrap Automatically if contracts n are e taken taken ta ta- ta I I ken whatever the loss Joss is on idle land falls taIls on the bondholder I So the offer of ot the bondholder that an indi individual contract co may be hed hod with them on any and all Improved farms which seek it ft is beginning slowly to be seen as fair just equitable equitable equit equit- able and right and a means to win out on Its a lot better than staying staying staying stay stay- ing hitched to an organization headed headed headed head head- ed for the rocks The whole thing Just now before the farmer mind is I I am afraid if it I sign up a better bettar I deal eal ma may be got by my neighbor And nd there the whole thing hangs bangs on that lat one hook of human nature As I Is supervisors bond I s and bond committee can assure the people the man who doesn't does does- does J nt t pay wont get a cent the edge on yOU ou then it will move forward and a lot of contracts be started And Anduce I once once uce the thought begins that the man mail mailho I who ho holds out wont get a better settlement sot sot- ement than the man who pays up then hen there will be a stampede toward tow- tow ard rd the contracts The farmer knows that his own supervisors wont discriminate against the he payer In favor of the non Slowly lowly but surely it is beginning to o be seen that the man who held heldack I back ack back forced the heavier load on theman the theman theman man who did pay That had all the I farmers stayed hitched and not laid back ack on oa the hold back straps the I load oad could have been pulled out for an acre spread over 20 years but mt when farmer John laid down inthe In Ini I Ith th he the harness and balked Farmer Dun Dan had to pull pun tho old wagon out of the thel j mud at 60 a yank and and maybe in moro more ore For a moment touching another er r phase of ot this question the tho pubIc pub pub- I lie He Ic mind ran for tor a short time to the appointed self savior the tho champion of f the people But now now nov it is seen no supervisor has done more than his duty and that he had to do what he did couldn't have prevented it and nd nd had any champion of of ot the people been in office lie he would have havo been I to levy the tax which I Nhen hen Imposed on the valuations is isho the ho sum required to be bo levied to meet I 1 the tho ho budget the people like it or not And that mandamus I pro- pro ceding eding will compel any my set of ot supervisors supervisors super- super visors to levy just as was levied It Isn't the tho fault of ot the supervisors they hey must do their duty Public opinIon opinion Ion ou Is agreed on that And a better I feeling Is general for tor the tho supervisor j i Back Dack to the main topic the farmer farm tarm- or er sees quite plainly the boat he ha is I In Its It's leaking and sinking If It he wants to get to shore in that farm he lie I must hail ball the tho boat boat Ills Ills first mort tc o wont let him lot the boat till fills 3 I V f lIt l t taxes beyond the th danger Ih line e 0 the of ft the fourth year lie He lie must then ke e p It t balled bailed down to to the tho fourth 1 y year yearline ar line or get out and swim to another another an an- other dob of dirt That's agreed on Tile TIe only question Is simmered down downto to a Hew can we best get longer time easy easy as pa payments and nul nulan pan man paddle his own canoe to f shore For were we're in nn an mess Awful mess mess IS Is light awful tight awful up UI to seventy great reat big dollars against a Supreme Court Decision and a 1 uni tied lied bunch b of fighters One One re redeeming fe feature ture that comes in th the farmer who is under the Federal Land Bank and several of ot them have called in this office and ly talked it over feels that he ho sta stands ds as good a chance as any it if not better to 10 be handled right treated treated treated treat treat- ed square and picked uP up and given I II long iong time to pay payout out in F For he lie feels feel s I this bank will if It the security and InI in intent In- In tent of honesty is there pay all th the e I hack tax tax-es to protect the mortgage all all the future ones to get way fro from froma m a district which is already a ruin I and give the landowner a contract t i to buy t from om tho the bank hank at 33 years o on n amortization 1 I Not t that at the other loan companies may not do the same thing but the lead will b be ho t taken by this ban bank Ie and andall andall andall all of oC those borrowed from it who I really want to pay will be given the way and means moans to do so The The man under a shyster loan Joan weak both hend he lie and nd the man he owes wes may not bebla be I ably abla to swing as good a deal as s the tho borrower backed by this bank with bank with ample capital already us used d to long times limes loans and full fully aware that it itIs Itis Is f necessary to do so to save both farmer end and themselves from the first st lien o of oC a tax I As repeated to us by the by-the the majority of careful prudent men both farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers and money lender agree The j liability which 1 the landowner himI himself him- him I self vo voted e on l. l his bis land taxes up to VoiT cioe O levied And it Is agreed I by all that the good farm cannot and must not evade at least actual construction con con- cost cost Now work out how as to UI tinier interest l raW rate lenient contracts contracts con con- J tracts to rave pave the farmer from ruin so that each Improved farm Intent on itself do the saving can so SO so- r whole aim is the best beat terms obtain obtain- I able j Public sentiment is s no very much 1 J In favor of ot the Smoot bill bili cr c cr 1180 It It may be too lot latr rt and It lt Itis is saddling on n the governs t garbage gar gar- bage can In which we C c t. t our losses And it Ina may bo be too by the time the big areas arMS Laten v La av 1 ten their slice out cut o t of or it ve YO in m. many y years J ge get to a diky j iN If 1 tie tic confessed Lv Lu red md lol Ot this For when ar r C coi L dc deals deals deals' i iW W with tl the bond ond l. l they wont 1 I admit we can pay oar Oil we Vc must all I show we cant But quily on fop op of or that we must tell Uncle mu r roe 3 I can and will and by hokey pokey ere vere a- a to Th The gOV lt plight Might dig up against us our very ov o ow ore re re- I marks said as to our inability to p. p y y yI I drainage bonds and say if It you cant can't pay them how can you pay us for forthe forthe j the very vary same amount And we must put up security eV even n to to borrow barrow from Crom the We all know w eat would go on it u the government grab bag were open toa to toa i a general snatch Uncle Sam may say Bay Business demands that I l' take up only going concerns concerns that arc are successful successful not not those alre already y yin j in hot water I have enough trouble i as It is So no one particularly is holding their waiting for this good ogre ogle to waft Uncle Undo Sams Sam's wand over their troubles troubles for for the PRESTO CHANGE A you troubles If It it comes good goad and well if it it do doesn't doesn't does does- s- s nt well we'll have to work it out our- our selves A bill Is before the Legislature to I provide provide- that if a farmer can can buy a abond abond bond at a discount he can buy his I Way out of his own drainage district I ad Hl be bo free tree from Its Hen lien That is looked e upon by the careful careful I saving farmer as the best pla planner yet and many are laying for four that ch chance chance i to use a savings account to buy u u. bond an and turn it in to the county county I I 1 o treasurer for freedom from tram tho tax lien Tho contract for tho the man who is l not strong enough to to- buy a 1 bond bond bond- p. p bond for the man who is able to buy his way out There Ther you you are in inn inn ina n a n nut shell shall The trend of public opinion is la away away away a- a way from Crom the wit the wit nit agitators V to ard and his 1118 better They want the fife best most competent biggest men of the community in as supervisors men who can sit at a conference table with heavy weight bankers and help holp with something tangible not destroy destroy- ors orB of oC the best we wo could do at a n given en on time The swing of the public mind has been quite pronounced From Om e e Ironic radicalism which talk talked d re- re repudiation re re- I or at best their own figurea figures figures fig fig- ures urea in settlement it is now around a counter of otter offer Cor of an acre a year 2 amortization Why that t six sta Weeks weak Jek X ag ago would n 97 have hav vi be bP n TO Today it it Is Isn Si a p peoples oPle committed r aim IQ to we ks s ago they radicals had bad the upper hand In Inthe inthe the tho meetings an and 1 Not on your life I They'll take less than that ThoI The Tho swing Is now now that the people will J Judd I add udd 2 to that besides 3 interest And And rather than lose out In litigation litigation tion sign up for th the offer first made on time 8 8 o of which 6 G is Interest a and d 2 amortization I The aim aim now is An individual in contract T Terms Terras rIDs as as favorable as poss poss- ible Time as as long as as possible pass pass-I LenIency Leniency Len Len- lency in casp caso of continued drought For the the C farmer plainly sees that thad his own made farmer drainage I or organization or- or n is hurting him because his own neighbor wont help pull Hes lies laid b back cle in the collar resting on the hold back straps shirking on the the load And the farmer Carmer wants no more of ot this Joint stuff stuff nix on that that The Tha touted much Richfield settlement set set- et wont want do us any goo good here SU Suppose that today we could get geta a settlement settlement for for or coutie tle dollar cash Who can pay it Certainly not the fife I poor poorman man No Nobody Cd but the rich far tar oner mei We couldn't raise 17 of ot a disturbance ance on the North Tract Tart t to to- to day dav to say nothing of or raising rasing I or a about out 1875 perman per pcr perman I man for men men So So the swing l now OW o of the public mind is to an ai individual contract with the farmer lip up to at 5 57 instead of the offer of atS Tho The people are arc 3 1 g getting tUng calm sanity is at the helm hahn radicalism Is checked an and each now s that sees th es-th t he must musi must ge get out as best st he lie can on his own merits and on oil the merits of ot his farm |