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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
: 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
