Show EMBARGO WILL NOT HELP Washington Dispatch In the opinion of Senator Borah of Idaho those western senators who are clamoring for all manner of legislation to relieve the farmer who want more credits extended embargoes embargoes embargoes embar embar- goes laid prices regulated and the finance board revived are all proceeding proceed ing along impractical lines IllS ms own senator Horan Borah sam said The Tho situation of the wheat raiser I is a serious one He Is a victim of I Ithe ithe the tho hort sighted policy which obtains 1 with reference to trade matters in Europe I do not think the these there e is la very much relief in any of the proposed r posed legislation which I have yet heard of The remedy must come through I opening up our trade relations with all the nations and peoples of Eu Eu- rope Wo shou should d clear the channels of trade as s between this country and andRusia andRusia Rusia and Germany and all other countries There is a vast market there for our products Those people people people peo peo- by proper treatment and assistance assistance assistance assist assist- ance ca can buy their products and feed their own people This is the only way in which we we can get permanent relief for wheat raisers and the livestock people Inthis in inthis inthis this country Legislation would lie be temp temporary in Its effect If It had any desirable effect at all If necessary and it Is by no means certain that it would be necessary necessary necessary J essary we should extend y o a ae tj e them o 0 u uT uy Give them a chance and they will feed their millions who want our products thereby not only taking care of their own people and preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting hunger and starvation but affording a market for our own prod prod- Europe Europ is dying for the stu stuff which we are anxious to market which we should have and which we must have is there if by ordinary ordinary or or- business sense and economic sanity we avail ourselves of It It Is two years now since the war closed It is time to seek normality to permit the laws of trade to obtain and the nations of the earth to tt deal with one another This ought to be bethe bethe bethe the demand Legislation embargoes and so forth will not help us It Isa is isa isa a wrong policy shaped upon a wrong principle By W W. G. G Gentry L' L The above by Senator shows Borah-shows shows ws that whatever else ma may be said about him it must be admitted that he Isa is isa isa a man of sound does does his own thinking and refuses t to be swayed by popular clamor Many pu pubic men believe the same as Borah but unlike him are afraid to admit it The farmers and stock growers need no tariffs or embargoes to protect protect protect pro pro- pro pro- them Such legislation will only on on- only I ly work against them In the end What they need Is a square deal with the fellows engaged in other lines lines' of or business which they are not now gettIn get get- tIn ting A little over a year ago farm products products products pro pro- pro pro- ducts and cattle hogs sheep and wool was selling at at the highest price ever known in the history of this country If in one short year after reaping this great harvest of exorbitant exorbitant exorbitant tant prices the producers of these products have gone bankrupt as the papers would mako make us believe then there must be something wrong here at home so lets let's not lay the blame on the foreigner What then Is wrong with tl the e farmer and and stock grower No doubt some of their troubles can be traced to extravagance hiring extravagance hiring the other fellow to do the work work the the automobile automobile automo automo- bile and high price gasoline sudden sudden burst of prosperity which th they y could not stand But Dut this Is only a minor cause the main trouble Is they have hale been robbed by every profiteer In Inthe Inthe inthe the country and it seems that th the producers of every article In the country e e. e c pt farm products and live stock are profiteers The trouble Is not that farm products and live livestock livestock livestock stock are too low 10 but that everything else is too high Labor Is too high We still hear talk of 4 to 10 r F per ver day with hay 5 6 to 6 per ton and other things in proportion One bushel of potatoes will no longer buy the farmer a meal at his home town The binder the tho wagon and 25 sugar that cost costi i to produce the 3 overalls and 10 shoes and other things in proportion all havo have had a hand Inputting in inputting inputting putting the farmers and stock growers growers growers grow grow- ers out of business In the worst Cleveland days one cow ten sheep or 30 bushels of wheat would buy the farmer armer or stock grower a good suit snit of clothes It now takes three cows 20 sheep or 76 75 bushels of wheat to buy that same samo suit of clothes notwithstanding the fact that wool Is a drag on the market at 20 to per pound The cattle producers can enn hardly give away a a- a cowhide and nd this condition condition condition condi condi- tion has existed for months yet the price of shoes remain about the same In some states the farmers are now burning corn for fuel as ItIs It Itis itis is cheaper than coal The price of corn is not too low it is worth three times Umes more than a few years ago but coal is too high and coal producers are getting too much money out of their business All of ot this Is b Just plain American stealing from Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans and a tariff or embar embargo o against the foreigner will not prevent It nor bring relief relict What this country needs 13 a 3 an n en enforced enforced en- en forced law that will prevent a part partI of or the United States citizens citizen d i from from J 1 W V There seems to be no other way to protect the general public from unfair unfair unfair un un- un- un fair prices We need no law to boost prices What we need is an enforced law that will wUl compel the profiteer to reduce his prices and sell his pro pro- duct reasonably The farmers and need no protection In the tho way of tariff embargoes or reviewing war boards All they need Is a square deal which they are not now getting Give It to them and they will survive and flourish I |