IR4 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 : y YW . J 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