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Show FARMERS IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE Our governor-elect, who Is home after a meeting with the governors at Harrisburg. Pa . says the one big ques lion before the executives was Ihe measure of relief to be extended to the farmers of the country Utah farmers may be in position to weather the financial storms, but in other states the tillers of the soil are' on the verge of bankruptcy. Idaho farmers, wool growers and cattlemen are without financial means with Which to carry on their industries and I I the banks are so overloaded with pa ' 'per which cannot be converted thai ; ihey are without power to offer aid. At this critical lime, the government should step in and relieve the tension On Monday in Ogden cattlemen sold j 24 carloads of beef cattle at 7 cents a pound and lost $21,00u on the shipment ship-ment This is the story of every large I cattle raiser in the intermountain Country. The wool men are in even a worse Condltlon( as their wool has had but lit Lie marketable value. All ihree industries should bo as-I as-I Bitted by the government. |