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of the Government towards making sacks cheap and 

 abundant, otherwise in the last decade surely it w I 

 have been attained, for the ''Poder Ejecutivo" has 

 declared annually with surprising insistence that the 

 problem of saeks was continually p re-occupying its best 

 energies. 



GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE 



What, solution can the State offer which has not 

 had its trial, and failed ? If the Government is in a 

 position to facilitate 1 sacks to the farmers then un- 

 deniably the surest and cheapest way is to lend or 

 give the money direct. All the projects of free im- 

 ports, special facilities, etc. have co:iu> to nothing-, and 

 any roundabout way of free sacks or half-price sacks, 

 string, etc. only leads to the monv, r he.inti 1 sp'-nt in the 

 interests of a few who do not need it to stimulate their 

 energies, and in the long run add another burden to 

 the already overtaxed country, and the sadly depleted 

 treasury. 



I do not pretend that the matter is either advanc- 

 ed towards solution by being left in the hands rvf the 

 interested parties. Measures taken by interested par- 

 ties are always upen to suspicion, whether 1 they are 

 hailed as the saviours of the situation at the beginning 

 or not; and there is no. reason to attribute the failure 

 to supply sacks to the satisfaction of all and sundry, 

 to any shortcomings in particular of the Wheat Com- 

 mission. It must be put down to the insurmountable 

 difficulty of ever solving the problem \\ )\>^ the lines 

 adopted. As it is, the solution of the difficulty must 

 He dormant to be revived next year if the crop is 

 good. Only when the crop is bad do we hear nothing 

 of sacks, because there is nothing to put into them. 



This year, even with the question of Ihe sacks 

 being left primarily to the chief buyers, f p? Allied 

 Wheat Commission, which has sold 91,000,000 sacks, or 

 sufficient for 4,000,000 tons and which by the way is 

 only concerned, as is reasonable to suppose with its 

 own purchases, we have seen a very got)d attempt made 

 to allieviate the difficulties over sacks, which we may 

 be sure, could not have been improved on had the Gov- 

 ernment undertaken v the matter exclusively. 



In allowing a foreign committee io occupy itself 

 with the task the authorities certainly fo 1 lowed a T ery 

 good plan, but if this is to constitute a precedent then 

 we have finally arrived at the resolution that those who 



