| Show THIS a n d THAT BY SAM SABI HILL 1 A BULLION BILLION DOLLAR SALES TAX ow low were off in a new direction i ar w th ill the assurance ss urance that we are go arg to have to pay a billion dollars more inore for what we eat cat sull and wear d abing the coming year than we paid for them during the pa past year i r thereabout there about this is the news conj in the so called farm arm relief i i ze measure asure as it now stands some time ago walter lippman I 1 in discussing this then prop proposed oseO I 1 1 iio Io asure stated that the pAi rosal c aried enough dY namIne to blow up lip the democratic parl we don t i laim lai n to bo be a and w wa jont raim im to be as blie as sume sum senators 1 I 1 conr on ss r claim to be on ell the i lie ether hand wod wed art of hate hale e as SLI SL I ind baird es as sous ot of them actually are arc it requires no prophet nor a greit eat cal of 0 wisdom to see that two and two make tour fout apparently however a number a considerable num ter ier of our law makers haten yet learned leannea this simple little fact act and now that this farm relief measure is fairly sure of its place in the sun we are going lippman one bettor tor we predict that it carries enough dynamite to blow up both parties TWICE this measure gets the cart before 0 1 oi o f p wid anil cioth cart and horse upside down it Is based upon two false and misleading assumptions Ili first it Is founded upon the assumption that we have a perpetual and continuous surplus ot of things to eat and wear with no of 0 second this rs is substantiated by a further assumption that the masses have the money with which to buy mr air average citizen at least realizes that this assumption Is false lisa hes broke dead broke V hat then will be the result of artificially forcing farm arm prices up ward mard in advance of purchasing pow i e nhat would happen should an Ir force come in condace with an immovable object no ich animal you say agreed i oneth one thins ilig would have to pop sure thing and dont kid yourself into believing that something going i ik to pop in this case Is ancone an one actually believing that farm prices can be successfully success lully rals rd d while fifteen million workers ith th forty tire five million lion dependents ire are without employment or ca can anaona wonder why farm prices are 0 o unreasonably low while lille this condition exists give laborers jobs aud pay checks and there will be io 10 farm problem no farm surplus lecause labor will then be atle able to luy buy what the farmer produces give the farmer a market tor for his products and he in turn will provide a I 1 market for the wares of labor isalt it about time to realize that a lve ivo for one sore which means salt ir r another is a dangerous application it about time for somebody to remark that tho the world was made to live in and start working from that standpoint the night before napoleon arrived in st helena while standing on deck gazing at the stars he said to the man beside him somebody made all that ind nd somebody did dd but apparently few of us have the courage to retson reison wily WHY lets take just one concrete example and see it if there some bome thing radically wrong with the farmer be beabes jes what alla ajla him lets csider ns ider the case of a certain iowa loan w be 1 in 1893 wheat was wai selling at 40 cents per bushel flour I 1 at per hundred ten days ago in that same lova iowa town wheat was 1 1 9 caits per bushel while 1 1 iiii I WAS as selling at py der hun ded in other words while wheat had dropped 41 cents cent per bushel flour had advanced 50 cents undred in 1893 the little roadside I 1 iller ground the farmers i and he be was satisfied with i a reasonable profit in 1933 an indirect morgan monopoly grinds the tamers farmers wheat and it takes real money I 1 to keep J p morgan adorgan slid and his kind if this so called farm relief measure makes the roan man who resides be tween farmer and consumer foot i j this billion dollar tax bit it will prove highly successful and the will meet with universal ap amongst both farmers and consumers but this phase at pre et e t do doi i not appear on the sur and any plan which would u ten ato pass alai a huge buge burden on to those who can not buy ven even c at present prices Is foredoom id to failure because it is in direct violation of every economic law |
