OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1914.
OREGON EQUITY NEWS p -"iSs
Would city markets benefit the
farmer?
The farmer must control his mar
ket.
Denmark has no trusts or poverty.
American farmers make about
everything except law and money.
We are seventeen million bushels
short on spuds and they are 60c per
100 pounds.
Millionaire Ryan says our 'rail
roads are 95 per cent water and yet
they want us to pay more for freight
and passenger service.
This government has put in cir
culation less than five billion dollars,
and yet the banks report 17 billion
on deposit. Must be some water
there too.
ply and should not be delegated to
private capital lor exploitation and
prolit. They favor low rates for
long terms. They also lavor our
government borrowing money at 3H
and Waning it to farmers at AM and
the profit arising, if any, go to build
good roads. The farmers Union
and Federation of Labor has also en
dorsed these resolutions.
The Supreme Court of New Yrok
has decided that it is legal for the
Union Pacific ,to disttribute eighty
million dollars to its owners as a sou
per cent dividend. This is one oi
the railroads that millionaire Ryan
testified was ninety-nine per cent
water and we suppose this is one of
the roads wanting the Interstate
Commerce Commission to grant them
permission to raise freight and pas
senger rates five per cent.
Did you ever figure how many far
mers it would take to raise produce
enough at the market price to pay
the interest on one million dollars
of watered stock ?
The French government partially
reimburses labor unions for money
spent to feed the army of the unemployed.
Free trade would not sting the
farmer in America very much if the
market here was not tied up with
the trusts. Will the Democratic law
yers in Congress ever better it any?
It is the policy of the Equity to
take care of the home market first,
and this policy is recommended by
our Agricultural Department so a
committee of the Equity is to meet
the city council of Oregon Clity and
see what can be done to better the
condition of our home market here.
The second annual meeting of the
National Marketing Congress was
held last week at Chicago. All the
vital qseutions of production and dis
tribution were discussed. Rural
credits came in for its share. If
this congress was composed of ac
tual farmers who have had actual ex
perience in selling or trying to sell
their product on American markets
we might expect a rational method
to correct some of the evils of our
craz marketing system..
We farmers do not understand why
Oregon City merchants make no in
ducements or conveniences for far
mers. They want to compel us to
patronize livery barns unnecessarily
and even make unnecessary efforts
to put our dog in the pound for the
dollar to redeem him. Automobiles
can block the street and nothing said,
but we must not feed our horses in
the street.
In Kansas a hunter must have a
license from the state and also get a
written permission from the owner
of the land. All game should belong
to the man who owns or leases the
land from which, it feeds ,and grows,
and no one else should be allowed to
appropriate it under any law. The
fish in the ocean and rivers should
belong to all the people and laws made
to prevent special privileges and fish
monopolies.
The National Grange passed a ru
ral credit resolution stating that
rural credit was a part of our nation
al policy of conservation of food sup-
The high cost of living in our cit
ies has not raised the price of po
tatoes to the farmers. Wages to
factory workers are farther and far
ther behind the cost of living. The
profits of American industry are go
ing to pay dividends on watered
stock, in our American trusts. Be
sides our taxes are increasing at an
alarming rate. Too many state
commissions drawing ' big salaries
compelling us to oatch our own fish
with only one hook and grub our or
chard with one grubbing hoe.
While the cost of living is going
up the -salaries of county, state, and
national officers are not going down.
Taxes are going up so the politic-
What we want to get at is that the
high cost of living is caused in a big
part by the high cost of government.
The present market system is re
sponsible for the greater share of
living costs.
In 1912 we had a bumper crop and
the consumer paid seven billion more
for food than the farmer received.
Farmers of less than 100 acres are
farming at a loss according to the
Department of Agriculture. ApplesJ
potatoes and other lood stuns are
rotting where they grew within 20
miles of our large cities where the
prices are high and here in Portland
if a farmer undertakes to sell his
own produce the police coal-oil it be
cause it doesn't lock like a city ordi
nance says it must look. We all
know that the market is controlled
by commission men, jobbers and the
wholesalers.
Some Colorado farmers sent two
cars of peiches to Chicago. The com
mission men would not receive them,
and the railroad sold them at auc
tion, and the same commission men
bought them at $50 per car. The
freight was $1.60 per car and the
farmer had to send $100 per car to
pay freight. Peaches ought to be
cheap in Chicago, but are they? Far
mers must control the market and to
do that they must organize. Try the
Jiquity plan.
are many things the government
must assume to prevent trusts and
monopolies. Yet the Denmark far
mer realizes that his prosperity U tho
lesult of his own efforts and he asks
his government for no bounty sub'
sidy or tariff piotection. In fact
he is a free trader. He buys on the
cheapest market and sells on the
highest.
The Agricultural press is satura
ted with remarks and argument for
rural credit. We Eouitv farmers fa
vor rural credits and your editor be
lieves the organized farmers are en
titled to as cheap money as the or
ganized bankers and bankers some
times get government money free,
but Professor Wilson says they must
pay two per cent. Now if bankers
are to get government money at two
per cent why not farmers also ? Will
someone show us if we are wrong?
You know we are from Missouri.
More About Denmark
The farmers of Denmark began
to organize in 1880. Almost 95 per
cent of the farmers belong to organ-
ians put the big end of the burden i izations. They have 1,087 co-opera-
on the farmer, congress nas just wve uairies; a co-operaiive siaujrn-
aired the high cost of army officers ter houses; 536 co-operative banks,
living in high priced hotels when I The farmers have a great many
barracks with special quarters for meetings, both political and agricul-
officers have been built and main- tural. Every farmer almost, is an
tained and at the same time these agitator for something. The Danes
officers are violating the law by tak- are well educated in both political and
me double the SDace allowed. They agricultural science and they have
are allowed 7 cents per mile for trav
eling expenses and their household
goods Shipped at government ex
pense. And they even ship automo
biles as household goods. '
Congressmen get 20 cents per mile
for traveling expenses and admit
they can travel in first class style
for 7 cents per mile. Congressmen
are allowed to send their speeches
through the mails free and they
make a long speech for the sugar
tmst and send.it over the country and
the trust admitted that a year ago
they saved $60,000 that way.
aueer ways of doing things,
For instance, they are going to
build more railroads, which will in
crease the value of the land and it is
this increase in land values that will
be taxed to pay for the roads. This
increased value is called community
value and a campaign is on now in
Denmark to have all taxes levied on
community values instead of value
created bv individual effort.
The Denmark farmers are so well: 318,000 head. Now - these figures
organized that they are not afflicted show that we are not sending out
with trusts and monopolies. The many cattle, but we are bringing in
farmers recognize the fact that there over twenty times as many as fjr-
Out in Lyon County. Kansas, last
fall a few farmers formed an organi
zation for buying and selling. They
have three directors and hire a man
ager on commission similar to .some
Equity locals. They now have 200
members.
During December they did a busi
ness or over $i,uuu, and made a
profit of over $1,000. They hope to
spread the organization over the en
ure siaie uiiu (fet some law promo,
iting grain gambling.
It is just such organizations aa
this that are joining the Farmers'
Society of Equity and building up
the state organizations with a nat
ional head to prevent one market
from being glutted and another go
bare. Our Equity Warehouse Co. at
Portland must be put on a better
business base. Farmers are demand
ing quicker returns and better prices
in both selling and buying, and our
institution must meet this demand or
go out under the fierce competition.
Stockholders better get busy.
The packers are predicting a beef
famine. So are the bankers and Bv
are the farmers. The Underwood
law lets beef come in free and mil
lions of pounds are coming in from
Argentina but the same packers that
control the Chicago market control
the Argentina beef industry. If the
price of American beef steers goes
too high the trust just ships in a few
million pounds from Argentine and
the big packers hold this law as a
clu&t to bring the American beei!
raise'rs to time.
The American farmer would keep
his calves and raise more beef if he
could profitably, but he must bat
tle under conditions of the markei
and knows it is better for him to sell
his calves. The market sometimes
drops fifty cents before the feeder
gets his cattle to market. In fact
the price of beef cattle is seldom
the same two days in succession, but
the price at the butcher shop sel
dom changes.
Congress and the legislature do
nothing to protect the farmer no
matter how much he complains. It
seems these lawyers are either ig
norant of the public welfare or brib
ed by the trust. Farmeis must or
ganize and elect members of , their
own class to make better laws gov
erning agriculture. We must have
better laws or have a beef famine.
We are quitting the cattle raising
business here, and the following are
the figures:
We used to export cattle and In
1906 we exported 525,000 head and
six years later only 105,000 head. In
1906 we imported only 16,000 head
and fv ye?rs later we shipped in
merly and still we have in the U .S.
only 36 million head to where we
had in 1907 over 50 million head. Wo
have many millions more people to
teed.
EQUITY STATE CONVENTION
Officers Elected and Outline of Bus
iness Transacted Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Berray and family,
who have been at Seattle, Washing
ton, where they were called by the
death of the former's father, have
returned to Oregon City.
Miss Ida Morley, who has been IH
at her home for the past week, suf
fering from a sever attack of la
grippe, has recovered so that she
was able to resume her position at
the Enterprise on Monday morning.
Miss Grace Silcox has returned
from a few days' visit with friends
at Mt. Angel. .
Mr. Schultz, familiarly known as
"Daddy" is very ill at his home on
Seventh and Jefferson Street. Mr.
Schultz is the father of William An-
dresen of this city and has a host oi
friends in this city.
Meeting called to order at 10:45
A. M. by Pres. Grisenthwaite. Ap
pointment of committees.
Committee on Credentials "J. A.
Randolph, N. J. W. Eichner, and J.
M. Stretcher.
Committee on Resolutions P. W.
Meredith, M. C. Young, and Chester
Wirtz.
Committee on Auditing W. W.
Harris, W. )3. Dayfwaljt find Mat
thew Gibson.
Committee on Credentials report
ed 51 delegates present.
Moved and supported that the By
Laws be amended section by sec
tion. Carried.
Moved and supported that the
creamery proposition presented by
M. E. Damon be refered back to the
locals. Carried.
Resolution regarding the exclus
ion of politics laid on the table.
Moved and supported that a com
mittee of three be elected to investi
gate the Equity Warehouse Com
pany. Carried.
Moved and supported that the
State Union assume the expense of
the committee on Warehouse investi
gation. Carried.
Nominations for committee: J. P.
Campau, W. W. Harris, F. H. Hint,
H. Stark, and M. C. Young.
J. F. Campau, F. H. King and M.
C. Young elected.
Articles 2,4,5 of the By-Laws
amended.
Election of officers for ensuing
year.
W. Grisenthwaite, and J. F. Cam
pau nominated. Grisenthwait elec
ted by acclamation after withdrawal
of Campau.
F. G. Buchanan nominated for Sec.
Elected by acclamation.
J. Schmitke nominated for Vice
President. Elected by acclamation.
Nominations for directors: J. M.
Stretcher, J. F. Campau, W. S. Day
wait, and P. W. Meredith nominated.
J. P. Cmpmi and P. W. Meredith
elected by ballot.
Moved and sunported that the
Clark Co. Locals be received into the
Oregon State Union with the under
standing that when Washington
forms a state union their proportion
of fees and dues from the date said
union is formed until the end of
that year will be returned to them.
Carried.
Moved and supported that a re
port of the findings of the committee
on investigation of the Equity Ware
house be sent to each local secre
tary. Carried.
Moved and supported that a copy
of the amended By-Laws be sent to
each local ires, and Sec. Carried,
Resolutions Adopted
Initiative Petition: Be it enacted
by the People of the State of Ore-
gon: That Chapter 269 found on
pages 465, 466, 467, and 468 of the
General Laws of the State of Ore
gon, enacted and adopted by the 26th
regular session of the Legislative
Assembly A.. U. 1911, being Senate
bill No. 24, and entitled an act "re
lating to the Naval Militia of the
State, providing for the organization,
regulation, maintainance and disci
pline of the Oregon Naval Militia,
the same be and is hereby repealed
and the Naval Militia of the State
is hereby abolished.
Initiative Peition: Be it enacted
by the people of the State of Oregon:
That Chapter 79, on page 119 of the
General Laws of the State of Oregon
and enacted and adopted by the 26
regular session of the legislative as
sembly of the State of Oregon in the
year 1911, being house bill No. 197
and entitled , : ; , .
An Act
"To provide for County Education
al Boards to define the powers and
duties of the same; to provide for a
division of the counties of the State
of Oregon, into supervisory districts
and to provide mean's for defraying
the, expenses of the Supervisory
School Districts," the same shall be
and is hereby repealed and the Coun
ty Educational Board is hereby abol
ished. Resolved that the Oregon Game
and Fish Laws be abolished and be
it further resolved that the ' State
Pres. of the Farmers' Society oh
Equity appoint a committee, to map
out a plan with this end in view.
Whereas, our legislature has ap
propriated $150,000 to pay expenses
m collecting an exhibition for the
World's Fair Association and where
as the burden of taxation falls heav
ier on the farmer and whereas we are
expected to spend our time, labor and
produce as a donation to this fair
association in which we hold not one
dollar's worth of stock. Be it re
solved that we demand reasonable
compensation for our time, labor and
produce furnished for said fair asso
ciation, The following resolution favoring
an efficiency system of rural credits,
was adopted:
Whereas, we believe that the
greatest single problem now before
American agriculture is the estab
lishment of a satisfactory system to
provide short time loans as work
ing capital for farmers, and long
term mortgage credit for land pur
chase and permanent improvements
and.
.Whereas, practically every coun
try in Europe as yell as the British
possessions in India enjoy systems
of rural credits which are revolution
izing agriculture in those various
countries, and,
Whereas, an American Commis
sion representing the Federal Gov
ernment and thirty-six states of the
Union made a thorough investigation
of the working and results of the
European rural credit systems and
came back strongly recommending
the establishment of a similar sys
tem modified to meet our American
needs, and,
Whereas, up to the present some
eight or ten bills hava been introduc
ed in Congress bearing on the estab
lishment of rural credits ystems, and,
Whereas, while all of them con
tain useful suggestions, not one of
them, we believe, is adequate to the
needs of our American farmers, and,
Whereas, we believe that the pas
sage of the bill last introduced by
senator .tietcner and congressman
Moss (as outlined in Senate Docu
ment No. 380) would be a fatal mis
take for the following reasons:
1. It is not co-operativo. and its
loosely connected cooperative feature
would probably amount to nothing in
practice.
2. It leaves the new rural credit
systems entirely in the hands of the
same financial interests that hav
always dominated the field of rural
credits.
3. These interests would control
the marketing of the bonds which
automatically would determine the
interest rates and could be manipu
lated in such a way that the farmers
would be no better off than they are
at present;
4. The blil provides restrictions
on deposits and bond issues which
would be unreasonable under a prop
erly regulated co-operative system.
Therefore, BE. IT "RESOLVED:
That we instruct our representative
in Congress to work for the framing
of an entirely new act which shall
embody, as nearly as possible, the
following fundamental points:
1. A credit system for farmers
should aim first of all at service,
not at dividends on capital stock.
Dividends on capital should be limit
ed to current interest rates, and the
advantages of all possible economy
should accrue to the farmer in low
er interest on short time and mort- ,
gage loans.
2. That postal savings be depos
ited in the state central co-operative
banks and that such banks share
equally with National Banks in the
receipt of deposits of other Govern
ment funds. From the state central
banks, such funds can be distributed!
to the local banks in accordance with
their needs. We believe that such
funds originate almost exclusively
among the masses of producers and
consumers and should therefore be
used to reduce the high cost of liv
ing. As used at present, these funds
return as boomerangs, being the in
strument through which the mass
es of producers and consumers are
exploited by the organized . middle-class.
3. Such banks should reach many
rural districts not now provided with
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