Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

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Identifikator:: 825824427

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-50636

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Alberdi, Juan Bautista http://d-nb.info/gnd/118644254

Title:: Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

Edition:: Nueva edicion oficial, corregida y revisada por el autor

Place of publication:: Besanzon

Publisher:: Impr. de José Jacquin

Year of publication:: 1856

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 870 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 635 1 provide, if possible, that you would let the individual farmer hold his own commodity. He might conceivably ship it off, but it would be a crime, and I believe the average farmer can be trusted to hold it: and the loans being made through the banks, and the banks, knowing that that commodity is put up as collateral, would keep in touch with the collateral. Mr. Jones. Just a question there: If you put that plan into oper- ation and had your 75 per cent to sign, what would there be to pre- vent the other 25 per cent from increasing their acreage or making their sales any time they wanted to and taking advantage and pPOs- sibly getting a higher price than those who had signed? Mr. LankForp. The bill would prevent that. Mr. Jones. What would there be to prevent new acreage by people who had not theretofore been in business? Mr. LaNkrForDp. The question of new acreage would be solved under provisions in the bill. I provide this, however, that these loans shall only be made when planters of 75 per cent of the acreage for the ensuing year have signed the contract, to control the produc- tion and marketing. The bill provides that 10 per cent more must sign within 12 months from the time operations begin, and therefore 85 per cent must come in within 12 months after operation. Then I provide, further, that 10 per cent more must come in within the next year; and then that 7 per cent more shall come in within the next year, running it up to 97 per cent of the planters. If the bill does work, if the plan is a good one, and if the American farmer finds he can borrow at the average price of his commodity and that there has been an organization perfected which enables him to control his production, which enables him to control the price, and name his price within reason, they will sign up 10 per cent more each year until they have 97 per cent in. The other fellows will be forced in just like labor unions force them in when they cry “scab,” “not friends,” ‘“‘not in sympathy with the laboring man,” “not deal- ing fair,” etc. In other words, I believe they will sign up these contracts. If they do sign up these contracts, then it would solve the overproduction problem and marketing problem, and would enable the farmer to do exactly what I said that my father could not do in the way of naming the price of his cotton. It would enable the farmers by this organization to get together and simply say, “We will not sell cotton or wheat except at a certain price. We produced this year an alleged overproduction, but that overproduc- tion does not hurt you; it. 1s not for sale.” Or “We have for sale as much wheat as you need at a reasonably fair price. We have only as much cotton for sale as you are willing to pay us a fair price for.” The farmer for once in the history of the world by this organiza- tion could look the rest of the world in the face and say, “Cotton 1s so much a pound; how much do you want?” Or ‘ Wheat 1s so much a bushel; how much do you want?” He could not do that to an unreasonable extent; he could not name a price of 35 a bushel for wheat; he could not name a price of a dollar a pound for cotton. But he could name a price for his commodity within reason, just like the producers of steel and the producers of shoes and the pro- ducers of hats and clothing name the price of the articles which they produce, within reason. RE160—28— SER E. PT 8—

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