Farmers' Union and Federation Advocate and Guide; One Hundred Reasons Why Farmers Should Unionize to Adopt the Minimum Price System for All Farm Products, Especially Wheat, to Be Based on Skilled Union Wages and Overhead Expenses, Enforced by Concerted No (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... closed. These statistics do not indicate a thriving condition for the farmers. None should brag about the prosperity of the farmers until these mortgages are all paid off. And they should not be paid off by the Federal Farm Loan plan either, but by an increased price for their products. The Federal Farm Loan plan is the banker's device to get a perpetual mortgage on all the farms and to hold all for the security of each. Before the scheme was in working order three months, over $7,000,000 had been loaned the farmers, and over 5,000 farm-loan associations were being organized throughout the United States. It was expected that over $200,000,000 would be loaned to these farm associations within the first year. The government aided the banks in this scheme to get a strangle-hold on the farmers, but will not aid the farmers the least bit to get released. They should unionize to release themselves through higher wages to save mortgaging, and pay off the old debts. Governor Sees Conditions But Not Remedy. Excerpts from Governor Allen's message to the Kansas Legislature on January 15, shows that he recognizes a deplorable condition in agriculture, but suggests false remedies unless safeguarded by the minimum price system: "In my judgment, the most rapidly growing question in Kansas today is that which concerns the increase in tenant occupation of farm lands. "All countries have had their day with this menace. The Eastern States have struggled with it for years. In Illinois it has grown so alarmingly that something like 60 per cent of the best land of that State is now owned by men who hold it for speculative purposes or for what it will yield to them in rentals. For so many years in Kansas we were free from the evil that we had grown into the easy habit of believing tha...