Congressman from This

District Says It Offers

Practical and Effective Aid.

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MUST ASSIST FARMER

SAYS REPRESENTATIVE

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Very Little Expense to Working Out of Plan Before Congress. Explains Proposed Measure.

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“Feasible, practical, effective and simple” is the way Congressman Frank Clague of the Second Minnesota district characterizes the Noyes plan to give the American farmers, benefit of the tariff on wheat, corn, hogs and cattle. It will be remembered that Congressman Clague was an ardent champion of the McNary-Haugen farm-products price-fixing bill, which fell by the wayside in congress. At the district banking convention held in New Ulm, a year ago last summer Congressman Clague devoted nearly his whole address to the idea of the government fixing the price of farm products. Now the congressman thinks the Noyes plan is far superior to the McNary-Haugen supposed palliative and nostrum to a depressed agricultural situation. Here is what he says:

“The principle of the Noyes plan is that of the McNary-Haugen bill simplified. It does not disturb the present method of doing business. The grain trade is left intact. The government is not put in business and there is no government price-fixing.”

Noyes Knowledge Praised

Mr. Clague said he was much impressed at that time by Mr. Noyes’ understanding of the agricultural problems.”Any proposal or suggestion made by Mr. Noyes,” he said,”is worthy of serious consideration.”

In the opinion of Mr. Clague the farmers’ actual profit on wheat under the Noyes plan would be between twenty and thirty cents a bushel.

Operation would be simple

“The expense under the Noyes plan would not be a third of what it would have been under the McNary-Haugen bill.

“No new government machinery is needed. I do not believe the additional expense required in taking care of the bounty and collection of the excise tax would amount to more than $5,000,000 a year.”

Mr. Clague said he has studied the plan with a view to developing objections to it, and as yet has found none of importance.

Farm Objection Not Seen

“When the farmer understands that his price for wheat is to be in-creased thirty cents a bushel or more,I cannot see how he will object to the payment of the excise tax as provided in the bill,” Mr. Clague said. In the opinion of Mr. Clague, one of the big merits of the Noyes plan is that it does not disturb the grain trade.

Brown County Journal,

January 1, 1926

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