| Show WHAT JS IS THE MA MAilER ITER WITH I WHEAT FARMERS SAY ONE OWE THING BROKERS ANOTHER J Grain Growers Scout Claim of Over OverProduction OverProduction Over tion tion and Declare They Are Impoverished By Gang of Despoilers Politicians and Agitators Take Advantage of Econom- Econom Economic ic Conditions of Today T dayo Br nr GREr r BROWN TIM Thc all Lx I Ond II I Copyright 1923 CHICAGO July What 21 21 Wh t I is th the matter with wilh wh wheat nt Jor this Question asked with with In hundreds of oC farm tarm houses the nati nation in finan- finan tl finan centers and In th the councils of othe th major political parties there rP rp almost as miny answers rs as there t are arc classes propounding the When het went vent below te mark here this th la Is week ek the fact was as heralded as a sev- sev sev seventh day wonder In 1914 dollar wheat hent eau caused ed an ev even n greater creator hut hut- n ib hut in a different cense DoLlar Dolar wheat heat before the war ws th of the farmers ambi- ambi ambi It on but tJ da after vears o of In- In in-fl in ft lion tIon dollar wheat sheat heat brines cries Q c The farmer it i Is admitted has hns hasgood good grounds for Cor complaints Dut Ih ho Is also the victim of oC poor judg- judg m m mit lt Intoxicated by the war pre and immediate post war post v ar periods of othis hS l I prices ho he increased It n Sn greater than the world con 1 a I f now no is suffering be be- be be C of fact In addition many renters Mho ho became pros pros- pros pI rous through war nr ar prices tie to buy their own farms farm but Itle they paM sums sum far above the tho In- In in intrinsic le value of the land TOday tiey find they are ar unable to pro- pro i e v wheat heat on this thic thi inflated land secure n a n profit at the present liP rice of or grain The greatest sore sor spot to the farmer Is the tho fact that while he to undergo all the Sms of deflation Industrial lines lints av mot Int p been heen subjected to the th same ratton me I As a result he finds hi Income too meager in I lon Ion with Ith his outgo or the cost orl of which remains In the 1 of or Hit 1918 I A TOnS tIT GET BUSY I and agitators hale hae ha fl quick to learn lorn larn of oC the tho farmers and ha have hae e don donall don done t all ill the could do to keep It alive Laws lAU been passed to bolst bolster 1 up Ithe wheat market but these hae I roved unsuccessful The Th present II loW price of wheat heat can be at- at at to the or of agitators and politicians who belle believed belied ed th they ey were ere cre helping producer but instead oni In- In ned n-Ifor-ned ned horned the buers buyers of ol our wheat that we e e had an surplus Ihl Information scared oft off th the purchaser and the roar mar kt today lacks luck his flu flu- cuI Eu I have practically to normal and the Euro Euro- Europen Euro Pe pen of the surpluS wheat In America with the sole soleM sol M of o Great Britain face currencies today lct rt t lct their buying power a a recent estimate by i t to the Int In-I In In- In in institute of agriculture showed the th world worlds s crop OO bushels buhel In L Cal ess of list It year and tle te English hn held requirements would I lie e only O bushels this year ns as I iS bush bushels ls last lasty lasty I y tr lr The chief cause of the low pricel of wheat h at Is production over 0 er Ii Jq It ItI I ny ny wonder onder that h wheat at is selling J nl at a xum Remedies for or the situa situation lion tion are offered b by ma mav people but most of them are artificial suggestions It t Ink takes demand l to 10 toI II I cep ep up the price ice of wheat heat and andi the tho d grain arel are cst st method of or handling the crop Unrestricted speculation and andt andla t I la 13 10 government in business will he Ip the tho farmer more thin any any- anything anything any thine thing else Ie All of the foregoing r represents a compilation of views le les ies s obtained In the Chicago Chicago the center enter of the rids rid's rain n-rain today market market today Other OtherIe Ie lews ar are held in rn oth other r Th farmer for instance v t gh gie e a penny for e everything set Bet n ilO-n this far f r in this dispatch In Inan Inan Inan an effort to get the tho farmer s ro- ro re lon i 2 correspondent in I I was asked for III reply in rather I language e h epan ngan a as s God help the rich the poor I n be beg bee 11 IH SPOILERS BLAMED Dr The rhe Wichita correspondent re- re rc-lorts rc lort Ort that hat tho the farmers belle bellee e n a of des despoilers are le lefor for the present low price Inter Inter- Interviews views with 10 farmers representative n- n tall talise wheat heat heat growers ers from frona differ differ- different lit cut sections of or Kansas demon demon- demonstrate demonstrate strate strato that the farmer Carmer dos does not be- be beHe llev be-llev He the over oer production theme the tul typical al view of the farm lt is set dow nin fin this wi wise Every Jivery very few years sears ear the tho Industrial tem through the manipulations of oC the despoilers get the jim jim- jim jim-ja ja ns Capital flies tiles to coer co cov er Cr tac- tac fac factories I tories lose close and labor goes toes tramp tramp- tramping In ing across the country seeking honest empo employment ment and listening to the ho of over over production y ly iy despoilers while the the- country at large becomes become sl cic unto death The rhe able editor looks into the base and Ith ith I oaI 1 like gravity announces that If the farmer raises raise less sheat heat ond more cockle-burs cockle It If the Im- Im Import Import im import I port In tax on putty be 10 somewhat or on the tho free fre list the Amer Amer- AmerIcan Amerlean American ican lean farmer will III hae ha money money to tiow at the that bIrds birds that mortgages to ard will pa like Jlko II a tu hideous nightmare and the farmer gaily his Mi hl plow like unto nm nin all his glory clory rM CL UM IL i To the farmer farmers of or the wheat belt bolt who ho keep In touch with actual tI II the the cry of over oer production is but buta buta buta a tale told by an idiot full of and aud furs fun nothing r Ir Jr r at tho the Sarnia am time tim this cry Is raised there thiro comes figures from tIe the fh five fie e marketing centers d f f the United States refuting IL it At the ne newly nely ly south south- southwest west wAst w heat producers conference hd in Wichita this week Clayton II 11 H Hide de one of the largest a heat in m Oklahoma gao cavo ga 0 the following figures on the cost of heat production on his farm tarm the of computation being an acre Cost of or labor 2 2 rent 4 4 board c In Insurance urance tOc repairs to ma- ma machinery ma machinery chinery 2 c threshing 1 80 SO and sped aced 1 1 or a n total of 1 10 0 15 an anac inac ac e c actual cost of production With an average a of 10 bushels t to the acre and the present price prie Of SOc a buhel the farmers of oftie tI ii a southwest est bid did fair to a losing game came to the tune of oC 2 p r acre Perhaps these figures account for bythe the vigorous phrase used by the Wichita correspondent At any I late ate the and he ho middle man hold bold views a widely separated I are the POl polo poles s of the th earth cirth re- re re girding what Is li the th matter with icat The Th ultimate consumer Is lithe thE only silent element clement In the th con con- conI con I ro erey He H has lit to pay ply the tho price no matter what It may be I 0 |
