Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — REJECTS $2.50 WHEAT [ARTICLE]

REJECTS $2.50 WHEAT

House Votes Against Change in Price—B# Returned. Conferees Will Meet Early Next Week to Ccosider Their Course—President Against Increase. April 19. —President Wilsi-a won Ms fight against $2.50-a-LusfeeS wheat in the house when the smaie proposal was rejected and the atgri««s2r®ra:l appropriation bill sent tonefc e>>-sference with house confesw# instructed to stand against the taenease in the existing government ■axiam cf .„. _ _.. Use'ee-Eferees will meet early next veel :<i c®es»ier their course. The MES was sent back to confereiKe .br atrote •»f 167 to 98. Kegc——'ctauve Sterling of Illinois de-riar—l: “Y«mo can fix the price but not the w«shwheat.' Worth cannot, be fix—d by law any more than you can regulate the law of supply and deatandL N- brain can tell what wheat will be wweth when the crop is ,harvesr—A If y»m fix the price too low wheat will disappear and something wfl3 .be sabsdtatetl.for .it.

“I hestnd Mr. Hoover say he had no iMemiiioa t<o fix the price in the bins erf the fxrmers. but that wheat should go «« the market for what it is wwrrk." T* argument for $2.50 wheat is based! wi irresponsible statement fruMß socae- »:me that such a price will pwvexit feeding wheat to live stock and Stable production,” said Repr>es«usat£Te Good of lowa. It fe ftrily to. say anything we may do now will affect the 1918—this year’s —crop. “I raise wheat, and I find it more prafaße than corn or other crops at the present price.”