The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 9

COTTON IN ARIZONA Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Could you send. me a few copies of the Leader? I came here from Denver after the election. I did my best there, and while the League lost out it surely put the fear of God into some of those Colorado politicians. You can not find a more discour- aged bunch of farmers in the country today than the Salt River valley cot- ton growers. Cotton hit the toboggan as soon as they commenced to pick it, and just now they get 4 cents a pound for cotton in the seed and pay 4 cents per pound for picking. Lots of small more are making no attempt to pick their cotton, while others are giving the Mexican cotton pickers half the picking. Think of a man growing cot- ton on $250 to $350 ground, paying water tax, land tax and 10 per cent: interest to the banking trust on any money he may have the ill luck to have to borrow! Everybody feels sorry for the farmer, but that is as far as it goes. .. : They raised the largest cotton crop Letters From Our Readers ’ - growers are going broke and lots . in the valley this past summer that- was. ever known. Last year cotton hrought 30 cents a pound in the seed and this winter it brings from 4 to 6 cents a pound. /' It takes 1,200 to 2,000 pounds of seed cotton to gin out one 500-pound bale. Lint cotton in the bale brings from 25 to 30 cents per pound, or around $150 per bale of 500 pounds. Seed cotton brings around $120 per 2,000 pounds, and it costs around $24 per bale for ginning and baling. Cotton seed brings around $8 “and $10 per ton. Farmers are burn- ing it in place of wood and coal. Stove wood costs from $18 to $25 per cord. Cohl is $16 per ton. But the Lord is good to the valley, as one needs very little heat in the winter and fuel goes a long ways. If the League could only start here in the valley right now I believe they could organize lots of the cotton growers. I am not a member of the League "or a farmer but a railroad man and member of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen and Enginemen and believe in a square deal for every man. The Salt River valley 1920 cotton crop is going to make someone wealthy, but it is a sure thing it will not-be the men who raised the cotton and then gave it away in order to meet their bills. Farmers’ real estate tax is $6 per acre and the 1920 water tax is $2.50 per acre. JOHN J. BURNS., Phoenix, Ariz. ’ A GOOD FIGHTER _ Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am 64 years old. I have lost everything through the animal will power of the special interests, but I have joined the army of the Nonpartisan league. My weapons are my pen, my vote and my suggestions. I wish I could witness. the day when .the American people could write on their flag the words, “Finis, Wall street” (the end of Wall street). . CARL THUROW. Wayne, Neb. THE WE'LL STICK SPIRIT Editor Nonpaxtisan Leader: Just a few lines in regard to my membership fee. I find it will be impossible for me to meet my post-dated check, for which I am awfully sorry. I don’t “want to drop my membership and I don’t want anybody to pay for my share of this fight for a better gov- ernment. We have been farming three yéars and raised the best crop this year we ever raised, and yet we lack between $200 and $300 of having - money enough to pay our debts, owing to the low prices we were obliged to sell our produce for and the high ex- penses we had to raise our crop. I will be glad to send you my note, pay- able next November, for my member- ship fee. Let me know if that will be satisfactory. . R. H. Morris, Minn. ~ : FROM. THE CORN BELT Editor Nonpartisan Leader: If there were some way farmers could get for their corn what it is selling for out on the Pacific coast, even after ‘paying 75 cents per 100 freight, we could get along, but if we have to put it on the market here at 35 cents per bushel, which is the price today, we will all be broke. We have lots of corn. It is nothing to see 10,000 bushels piled up on one farm, but the man who put out 100 acres last year is better off than the man who put out 300 acres, as we will lose on every bushel that we raised. I am a Leaguer and a sticker and my advice to all farmers and laboring men is to stick and win, and win we surely will. The League is the thing that will save the United States. : T. M. HARDWICK. Benkelman, Neb. < THE FARM BImEAU PLAN Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The 17 delegates for a voice on the price of farm products got what they wanted over President Wilson’s veto for the United States treasury to finance ex- ports with which to raise prices. Sec- retary Houston says: “Funds must be borrowed * * * by the. War Finance corporation or by the treasury. * % *= Advances can not be made di- rectly to producers,” but “will be made to exporters or institutions financing exports.” That is, the Farm Bureau federation made the government create a rakeoff for profiteers to be paid by both producers and consumers. This includes taking tolls going out and taking tolls coming in instead of purchasing the grain at a fixed price from the producers and holding it in store until exporters overbid the gov- ernment. As it is speculators who bought grain cheap will now unload at a higher price. The speculators' who loaned money on storage certificates will get their rakeoff from the fools who did store in the elevators instead of holding the grain on the farm. The gamblers who bought future crops low will compel delivery, or make the suckers settle at higher prices.” “What fools these mortals .be” applies to Farm Bureau farmers but not to their chiefs who led them into the first trap at $2.50 per sucker then. Five dollars is now the membership tax’'and they laughed at $9, the Non- partisan league dues for a year. Dunnell, Minn. . ERIC OLSON. THE FARM BUREAU Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Do you personally- believe this Farm Bureau federation is ever going to accomplish anything worth while? They are making a drive for membership in North Dakota and are trying to make the farmers believe they are uphold- ing the Nonpartisan league. But they “were here this morning, one I. V. A. and one organizer. . They said the Nonpartisan league hadn’t accom- plished anything yet. I mentioned a few laws for the benefit of the people.’ The way I've got it sized up I believe they are working hand in glove with Big Biz. ED GILBERTSON. Milnor, N. 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