The Delta independent., 1908-05-15
THE FARMERS FRIEND
The Republican Party's Aid to
Agriculture.
HOME MARKET PROTECTED
All Parts Of the Country Have Felt tho
Beneficial Result cf Its Statesman
ship, Which Must Continue Four
Years Lonoer-Facts to Ponder.

ECneTtSIGl neSult CT Ito StdeSS''~''
ship, Which Must Continue Four
Years Lonser-Faets to Ponder.
Following is the concluding portion
of the speech of Representative Pol
lard of Nebraska in the house March
%:
The organic act creating the depart
ment of agriculture was passed during
the administration of Abraham Lin
coin. the first president the Republican
party gave tc the country. In all thir-
ty laws have been passed bearing on
the question of agriculture since 1862.
OF these laws just three came from
the hands Of the Democratic party
Every one of the other twenty-seveI
laws was enacted by the Republican
party; consequently this marvellous de-
velopment and growth of the depart
ment of agriculture and the beneficial
results that have gone out to the people
are the result of Republican ingenuity.
Republican forethought and Republic
an craftsmanship. Ii was the Repub-
lican party that gave to the country
the organic act creating the depart
ment II was under Republican legis-
lation that the investigation of animal
and plant diseases was begun. 1t was
as the result of Republican legislation
that the beet sugar industry. the du
rum and Turkey red wheat. alfalfa
and improved strains of rice. cotton
and tobacco were given to the country.
It was Republican legislation that
opened the great semiarid regions of
the west to settlement. 1t was by Re
publican legislation that the irrigation
of the arid lands has been introduced.
In this magnificent work the great
Republican party has known no north.
no south. no east no west All parts
Of the country have felt the beneficial
results Of its craftsmanship.
The Republican party entered into
that section Of the country that since
the rebellion has done everything in
its power 10 obstruct and block the
progress Of not only our party. but Of
the nation. We went into the cotton
fields OF the south and taught the poor
cotton planter how to grow cotton and
rice. We showed him how TO combat
the cotton boil weevil. We have car
ried on a system almost akin to wet
nursing in our efforts TO teach him
how to grow cotton and rice at n
profit. This very bill carries an appro-
priatlon of S2J0,o00 for combating
Texas fever. which is wholly confined
to the south. We have produced re-
suits equally beneficial In the tobacco
fields of Connecticut. Virginia. West
Virginia and Kentucky; in fact. all
sections OF the country have been bene-
fciarles of the growth of this great de-
partment as result of Republican
craftsmanship.
At the close of eleven years of Re
publican administration we find that
the country has produced the third
largest crop OF corn in our history. he
ing exceeded only in the years 1903
and 1906. The total production of corn
for the year 1907 was 2.592. 100000
bushels. and the average price through
out the country on the LIST day OF De
cember was SIG cents per bushel. The
total production of all the farms of the
United States for the last calendar
year was ST.4l2. 100000 This is sG57,.
100000 more than the value of the
crop of 1906
The farmer knows that he furnishes
the food for the men who work in the
factories, in the mines and In the for
ests
He knows that unless the factory
hands. the miners and the foresteTs
work at good wages all the time they
cannot consume the maximum OF food
products. The farmer knows that IL n
tariff law IS enacted stripped of pro
lection 1t will close ~ per cent OF the
factories of the country and hundreds
of thousands of men will be thrown
out of employment. He knows that the
moment these factories close and these
men are out of employment his market
Is interfered with. The farmers of the
country know that 1t Is this great
home market that is responsible for
high prices for farm products. I want
TO say TO you that the farmers of the
country will never permit this great
home market to be interfered with by
the Democratic party.
Gentlemen, | have too much faith
in the good sense and the good judg-
mcnt of the American laboring man.
the American farmer aud the Ameri.
can business man to think that they
will consider for a moment the ad-
visibility of electing Democratic
president and Democratic congress.
The laboring people, the farmers and
the business men of the country have
great confidence In the grand old Re
publican party, ana I want to say to
You that the future of our party was
never more propltious or gave promise
OF greater success In all our history
than 1t does today. When the ides of
next November arrive and the result
OF the presidential election is flashed
over the country we will have n guar