The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 19, 1920, Page 9

[rss - - &4 g T 5 < ot ~ Congress Will Not Help Farmers No Relief in Sight for Drouth Victims in Spite of Efforts of League Congressman Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. ONGRESS and the ad- ministration face a $5,~ 000,000,000 treasury de- ficit and a ruinous de- crease in the production of foodstuffs for the present year, and because the finan- cial situation is so bad the majority leaders in congress will do nothing to assist farmers in the drouth-stricken region of the Northwest to produce more food. " That is the “vicious circle” of eco- nomic facts which Representative James H. Sinclair of North Dakota has for months been trying to break, and which he tested in a hearing be- fore the house committee on ‘appro- priations March 29. He is still fight- ing, but he is no longer confident that the old leadership in congress will wake up in time to avert the disaster that hangs over the nation because fhe farmers are being driven from the and. Sinclair went before the committee, after more than a month of enforced delay, to ask a favorable report upon either one or the other of his two bills aimed to help the farmers in the drouth region to plant and harvest a crop this year. One bill proposed that the secretary of agriculture adminis- ter a fund of $5,000,000 to be loaned to these farmers to purchase seed and feed, taking liens on the 1920 crop as security. The other proposed that the treasury deposit $10,000,000 in the Bank of North Dakota, to be loaned out by the latter, through its subordi- nate banks, to the farmers for the purchase of seed and feed. Represéntative Good of Iowa, the chairman, showed scant sympathy for the plight of the farmers in the North- west; all he could think of was the de- ficit of $5,000,000,000 and the impossi- bility of raising more money to meet this deficit unless it should be from the taxation of big private incomes and inheritances. There is no likelihood that his committee will add to the taxes of the very rich. Hence the in- creasing menace of the deficit and the coolness with which any proposed loan of public funds is received. FINANCE CORPORATION UNABLE TO ASSIST After Sinclair had showed that his appeal was supported by the boards of county commissioners of 14 coun- ties of western North Dakota, and that the American Red Cross had is- sued a special plea to congress and to the states to extend immediate relief to the sufferers from the drouths of the past four seasons in the North- west, members of the committee indi- cated that they could only express their sympathy and regret; they could not report either of his bills just now. They admitted that a few days more of delay would be too late. A Tennessee member of the com- mittee suggested to Sinclair that he see the Zone Finance -corporation, created in the treasury department to assist in the marketing of foreign ex- ports. from this country. Tobacco growers in Tennessee had been left with a great deal of a certain variety of tobacco on their hands; this tobacco had been marketed exclusively in Italy and Austria, and the exchange rates had made its sale there impossible for the present. The Zone Finance cor- poration was helping these farmers by loaning them money on their 1919 crop pending its final sale. At the office of the Zone Finance corporation‘ Sinclair met Eugene Meyers Jr.,, who explained that that body could not make loans on wheat, even if grown solely for export, until after (;;he wheat had actually been har- vested. Mr. Meyers told the congressman that there was no question about the gravity of the financial condition. He wished he could see past the next two months. This anxiety was not his alone. "‘And yet he admitted that the reduction in crop acreage and the eco- nomic conditions that are driving the farmers away from the farms are the most perilous part of the whole situ- ation. “Within three years we shall be im- porting food into this country instead of exporting it,” he said. “That is not merely my opinion, either; such men as Herbert Hoover give that as their judgment.” COTTON RAISERS WERE GIVEN ASSISTANCE The North Dakota congressman re- plied that this was all the more reason why the treasury should give its aid now, at the beginning of the farm year, to those farmers who are will- ing and eager to plant crops, but who can not get the money for seed or feed for their livestock. As a matter of safeguarding the food supply, and of keeping its economic life healthy, he pleaded that the treasury should use its influence with the administra- tion and congress to get immediate aid to the farmers in the drouth region. He cited the precedent set by Secre- tary McAdoo in March, 1919, when the former head of the treasury depart- ment ordered that the federal reserve bank at Dallas, Texas, be given a loan of $5,000,000 of public money, which the Dallas bank then sent out through its 88 member banks in the drouth area of the Southwest to be loaned to needy farmers. This money was out for over a year, and it saved great” numbers of them from ruin and added many times the original sum to the crop and cattle production of Texas in that year. But the Zone Finance corporation referred him back to the house com- mittee on appropriations. And the house committee on appropriations, after hearing a detailed report from Sinclair, once more talked about the deficit in the federal budget for this year. PIG-WEANING TROUGH Editor Nonpartisan Leader: When young pigs are taken from the sow and fed in an ordinary trough some do not get their share of food. 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