Show Liberty J b tb CIT of Brotherhood I F Farmers W Watchdogs dogs on the Job I It is 11 a o peculiar as ar fact that t in considering erinc the e relation of the farmers farmer product to the tJi he mart pay par for commodities notice node it Is rarely taken of the fact that the average farmer has resting on his shoulders the burden of a mortgage It is all very well nU to theor theorize theorise e that farmers are prosperous when price of the products he must buy are brought within range of the prices price I paid for farm products These TheM an see elements and may be brought t to o reasonable equalisation The tangle ome I however because ltd e der tJ the f I problem in terms term of commodities es those thorn sold Mid and three those bought ob t. t when the tho vital element the mortgage interest fall into to entirely a different erent class clus The mortgage and the tho interest spell actual cash that must be wrung from the tho profit profits of the farm and at specific periods and lId while the tho money market may fluctuate and be of importance to temporary borrowers the sum mom total of mortgages reI remains the same and the tho fixed interest remains the tho same If the fanner farmer ever is IJ to get rid of his hi old man of the sea sea then some consideration must be given to this thi fact In Ia 1910 the farmer had to p pay y from every he be received to take care of his interest alone In 1920 he had to pay 1150 to meet these demands In 1922 he bo bad had to give up 1410 out of every hundred received It can be I seen en that a lowering of the price the farmer must pay for commodities does docs not by any means solve his problem I Lets Let's End Loafing of Idle Dollars I When one of the young can caD stroll up to the roulette table in Havana lIanna as reported by a prominent Austrian business man recently take out a bun bundle le of 1000 bills place one after another on the same ame number lose ten times in succession succession sion and then calmly turn to the fascinating fox trot while timo time is il kept by the popping of champagne corks at the tables around the dance floor it is time for some of our to put on their thinking caps Ten thousand dollars to a Vanderbilt is a mere bagatelle of course ourse but when this kind of money waste is set et down si side e by side glue with the enormous demands s made upon middle class producers pro pro- charities until becomes becomes be be- lurs to contribute to the country's country giving comes S a burden cn then it assumes the aspect of a near saturnalia Ons Business men particularly those struggling to get a foot foot- Jol Jod t lire are the sufferers Examples of this kind of spendthrift income tax that has nonsense have brought about the onerous taken out ont of the world worM of trade and thrown into taxable non that could well welt be used millions millions of dollars for fur the expansion and development of American industries The nation cries cris aloud 11 for revision ion of our tax system for the tha theo o life lion tl of the burdensome surtax but our lawmakers find their excuse in the tho popular approval that gathers to them as a result of any move that seems to show them willing to soak sonk t the rich TWe are rich men and rich men however Some are of or he the young OU you up Vanderbilt variety but there are have made their millions b by financial and commercial activity of or of a n worthy diameter character men nten who in the making of their fortune have built up the tha prosperity of ol the tho country 4 |