Show OPPOSITION TO HAUGEN BILL Having been called on by the wheat growers op co-op cooperative marketing marketing association to give glye an of ot the McNary- McNary McNary bill Arthur Le La LeSueur Sueur Snout Sueur gen gen- gen gen- genral general eral iral ral counsel for tor or the the the association the following following- n to he measure which has las been pro pro- proposed proposed posed as a remedy for tor or the finan financial cial etal ills of ot the farmer armer is The measure is unsound and uneconomic for tor the following and many other reasons 1 It provides for tor an all extensive and fis fiscal at al system of making loans to cO cover er the entire i 1 States The Intermediate credit banks could do it much be beter ter and at no new expense 2 The bills bill's proposal for tor or sur sur- sur lus control provides for tor arbi- arbi fary Interference with Ith economic laws Jaws and questions questions the tho eu exacts exact's exact r t ef- ef ct of ot which which- cannot be deter deter- determined determined determined mined in advance of ot trial tria except pt to lO this extent that such expert ments in the tho past have havo always ended in disaster 3 The law laic a 1 encourages graft end nd speculation and otters offers no hope of o benefit to the farmer tanner in his It for tor contracts to tobe tobe tobe be made by the board to sell ell re- re re- re remove re remove move or dispose of ot the surplus or of a basle basic commodity but the per per- per ions tons Ions with with whom the board con con- contracts tracts acts are necessarily the same persons who would otherwise be customers an and of ot course they will prefer preter to contract contract through though he he board her the possibility of l 1 loss ss s 's is eliminated The mar mar- market mar mar-liet ket Is therefore more apt to be restricted than extended so BO far fara faras faras as a the the producer Is concerned 9 The law Is Impractical and unworkAble unworkable In this It Is political tn In Its very constitution and a po po- political po- po political organization is not adapted 10 o industrial or economic it Th ThI Thi w I hull hub trend or of his taw in III the h lon dir of ot tilt th lii most vicious menace America faces aces today that today that Is Js the encroachment of ot political Govern govern- Government ment mont over Industry and business Govern Govern- Government Government as well as ns human rights ment is now meddling in a hun bun ways as with hundreds of or mat matters where government becomes a pest Instead of ot a sanctuary for or human weal G 6 This measure taxes the five basic commodities for or the benefit of all ali all agriculture It there tore there fore ore discriminates 7 1 The law is probably unconstitutional unconstitutional because the tha taxing pow pow- power power power er of of 6 congress cannot be dele dele- delegated delegated gated to an inferior or or any other body and this this law confers conters un- un unlimited un unlimited limited power po to tax producers of the five commodities 8 Under this measure all the cost is cost of ot disposing a surplus taxed b back ck against the farmer with a tremendous overhead ex ox- expense expense pense added No to benefit can ac- ac accrue ac accrue crue to the farmers b by employ employing ing a federal farm board to lake take money out ot of one of o tho the farm farm- farmer's farmer's tanner's ers er's pockets to put the balance of It in another after arter paying them them- themselves themselves themselves selves B end and nd thousands of ot ot others ers fancy fanc- salaries for tor doing it 9 Even Eyen though h the board succeed In disposing of a surplus to better advantage than would otherwise be the case It Il would be bd merely bidding for tor or an Increase of ot acreage and a greater surplus the succeeding year year The onIt sound method ot of S solving Ying the surplus problem it IC there bo ho one Is for tor operative co-operative marketing to become fairly general and for or the co operatives to control the phys physical ical Zeal means of orderly so that advantage may be o taken taken takeno of actual market conditions and It if a surplus then at any time oc- oc oci occurs occurs oc occurs i curs It can be bo temporarily with with- withheld withheld withheld held from market To turn a sur sur- suri surplus sur- sur surplus surplus i plus pro problem lem over to such an agency as the federal farm arm board tor for disposal is to make o of the 1 surplus a constant menace to fair air prices and to prevent any real progress towards a real solution This opposition to the McNary- McNary McNary-Haugen McNary Haugen bill coming from a form form- formers formers orm- orm ers operative co association will viii do much to cause the farmers to more carefully analyze the bill bUi before giving it their endorse endorsement ment mont |