Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — WANTS FARMER ON STATE TAX BOARD [ARTICLE]

WANTS FARMER ON STATE TAX BOARD

Montffeello, Oct. 23— In an addreaa here thiP afternoon Dr. Carleton BL McCulloch, Democratic nominee for governor, declared <• that a fanner should be a member of the state tax board. "Our farmers need remedial legls* latlon,” he said. "Abuses and Injustices stockyards In regard to the grading of cattle, in regard to the charges for feeding and the eatablishment of a bureau of market* in order that the farmer may get first-hand information relative to the disposal of his produce are urgently needed. "A farmer should be a member of the state tax board. He should be heard at the council table when the great transportation strikes and coal strikes are being settled. These todustrlal wars affect him more then any other class of citizen became he has perishable products which must be gotten to the market. "The Democratic party believe* that agriculture should be an occupn tion for profit and not a struggle for existence. It can not agree with Mr. Harding that dollar wheat la a profitable proposition."