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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
listened to all of the other theorl 
en  haroughly convinced hasten and Si of the other plans, and I 
and experience and feeling that I ye ter these years of observation 
no other remedy except legislation ve in the premises that there is 
the character provided by the bill Lo od] an equalization fee of 
We quit because we could not e 1 1 prussed lash session 
That trouble will come to every Ry a fro lands with the beneliis, 
takes to run without the propose 1 per Howe organization that under- 
with 70 per cent of the growers of 0 dualiuoilon fer, We sipvied au 
we did not have more than 50 per ur product. In less than five years 
wait for our money. Our Doo Jo besause we wore compelled to 
people slid out under the hovossit were in distress. Many of our 
make men do things they do not wi h and, pressures of poverty, thy 
his crop, procured his money shool ot 0 do. The outsider increased 
and forced us to bear all OY pho : it under the noses of our members 
Rt Stith Amerionn 2 en. Gentlemen, there is an inborn 
way. Our people carried the nT carrying his neighbor, in any 
clusively that we could stabilize th en for five years and proved con- 
by stabilizing it and intellicentl Inf Riys on ou product, and that 
for it a fair price. We did that AHA 4 wo could soon 
us: For the five-year period ght, but here is what happened 
fine myself to Burley t baoco, preceding the war—I am gol te : 
dork eco Burl obacco, because Mr. Morgan will tall ab Wo 
During the war, of oy tobacco averaged about’ 1014 cents shout the 
at Cre, me ro 
years of our operations it about 13 cents; during th 
round figures. Not with it averaged 21 cents. I am speakir in 
to all tho producers oy standing the fact that its value arin ing in 
was added to his cost as I ost to the consumer did not v " Inne 
Our product was r at all, in fact, to the consumer th ary; nothing 
During all of s reasonably worth what we receiv a. i 
. ofa ed for it. 
Tne en ad ne 
y price for tobacco, and r. e never arbitraril 
same price. We pr ; and we never sold any tw y 
re Se Behe 
fit to all. But a fe f ustice to our members, and wi 
to dispense the bu w of us bore the burdens ro god. with 
trouble, but when raens with the benefits there would has bg ane 
Ahi wore Bow thle in 4 ave been no 
nd and carry a o do that and ou 
tobacco. when w part of the 1923, 1924 q r members had 
used tolline we got up to the 1926 , and the 1925 crops of 
used telling the growers that the b elop; propogands had been 
and they that they did not need it; that ther niandad Vo buy ou 
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forced our over would buy it; and in ¢ there was a large surplus 
oat, or = Aamir y to sell that tobacco by what ess our members 
but I was servin E System '—to dump it. 1k wit, eal the Janse 
Mr. KixCHEL oS oa of the people who had t th was 5 irlviare, 
A Bonar. Iman ior thot had the burden to bear. 
toba E. For the yea Yo 
fobacty and dumped it yor od Joag. We vole 
oss of $20,000,000 t it, and it brought about to dump that 
the preceding five : ihe growers, based on the 13 cents; .eausing 2 
or have never belived.’ under our orderly wo Rosai 
Was any gre 7, Sentome), now baie 
in urpluses of bg of tobacco onto Th now believe that there 
a surpl arm products in thi elieve there is any d 
plus of everything s mn this countr WwW ny danger 
o we produce y. e ought to have