Show V u y V y y V W V V Y W III ATTACK LAUNCHED ON COOPERATIVE MARKETING GRAIN DEALER I SAYS FARMERS MAKE MISTAKE Cooperative Movement I Laws Declared Class Legislation AUTHORITY QUOTED QUOTE I Speaker Bitter Over As- As As As On Wheat Middle MiddleMen MiddleMen Men MenDES DES MOINES Ia la Oct 1 1 When Intellectual anarchy reigns not een even the multiplication table is free from attack Charles Quinn secretary of the Grain Dealers National association association tion lion declared In lit a report to the a convention of the association tion fon here today Assailing congress nn l legisla- legisla legislatUre l el l tares tUre Lures for tor bowing to the will wit of s Mr tr fr Quinn I a Jeng hY report Asserted the tho time had come for or the the helpless helpless public to revolt political and economic ex- ex ex experiments Toppling have let loose II t flood of ot schemes for tor remaking the world he hG said And this world of abnormal times a a world I that abandons music for tor jazz jass art artor for cubism and the church tor for the movie will try anything RL RUl EWING AGITATION He Ho declared the agrarian unrest wag WIlS a part of the general disturb dl disturbance ance ince for lor the first time In te tet ears he ho continued has been on a vacation giving the country a t short respite But Buti i now ther there promises to bea renewal of Df agitation and a a plethora of I bills to to help the farmer despite the fact that congress de most of its last tw sessions to inch measures Almost unlimited credit was extended a tariff law practicallY excluding foreign grain was ivan pas passed ed a law now gives five gives the of ot agriculture control over ver grain erain futures trading and another nother law makes co co co 0 companies immune from the tho Sher- Sher Sherman Shernan Sher nan man trust anti-trust act Because operative co-operative market market- marketing ing rig of ot California fruit was found efforts are made to ap- ap ap apply ply ily like rules to grain train raised through almost the entire conti conti- continent continent nent Such policy sho s that leaders have not even oven reached the teething period In economise Mr Quinn quoted such authorities authorities ties as Professor T N Carver of Harvard university to show the tho fallacy of o applying to grain mar mar- marketing mar etIng the rules used for market market- marketing Inc ing ng fruit and other agricultural specialties APTER MIDDLE MAX MAS Leaders of the farm movement could destroy the middleman and replace him with a system far more oro wasteful and much less lees dem- dem democratic dm cratic he added pointing to of operative co market marketIng market ins Ing ug laws In grain states last win win- winter winer win winter ter er which he characterized as without precedent in the history of If class claas legislation After Atter Ing farmers Into these hose so-called so operative co-operative com corn companies companies anies he ho leaders would bind I them hem for tor ten ears to deliver their I products not to the highest bid bid doi lei del but to visionaries who vho know nothing of ot merchandising grain To ro strengthen their po position they would impose a fine of COO on anyone s vho ho would dare to tell the farmers that they had made a a mis- mis mistake mis mistake take ake The price to be paid pro pro- producers pro producers lucens was wall ot of minor importance It ri was simply to be the market rIco after all expenses of ot mer- mer merchandising mer S1 ore ere deducted It It does not seem scorn possible that these hese men calling themselves load load- loaders loader ers er 05 of a movement can an be un- un unmindful un mindful of the tho fact tact that their course is bound to be subversive to 0 the farming Interest of the na- na OF TUn But this is 18 an age a of ot turbulent thinking That explains why a anew anew anew new scheme for the destruction of ot the middleman is advanced In the morning and abandoned by night It explains unsound congressional bills that head the country down the tho road to It ex cx laws being jammed doan n do n the public throat laws to cure poverty po high pric prices 8 low prices farming risks Illness and war In previous agitations farm leaders blamed railroads and nd the theBold gold gohl standard Control of ot rail rail- railroads rail railroads roads by the interstate commerce commission prevented a a II repetition of nt the old Populist agitation and the money Inflation In Europe stopped a resurrection of the Vall WallStreet all Street dragon But someone hit Upon the train grain middleman and l he h becaMe becane the I |