Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-30

make this direct effort to get in touch
with the home life of the farmer and
to assist and improve his domestic con.
ditions, thereby making the life of the
farmer, his wife and family. easier and
pleasanter, his work more profitable
an attractive-an actual sympathetic
helpful interest of the government in
farm life. Is it not encouraging to the
farmer TO feel that there is a party in
power which sympathizes with agricUl
tural pursuits, and is devoting its best
efforts and energy towards the intel
lectual advancement of that great in
dustry; so that it can no longer be
said of the farmer that he is a ''manU
facturer who buys his raw material a
retail and sells his finished product at
Wholesale" 1t is, in my judgment
both an opportunity and a duty OF
every farmer in the land to cast his
vote to endorse and sustain the Demo.
cratic administration in its great con.
structive and bene lcent program OF
legislation, of which he is one of the
chief benefciaries.
| must mention another great boon
to the farmer that this administration
has practically worked out and that
will be passed into law at the coming
short session Of Congress. which opens
in December, and that is a Rural CrcdIt
System, whereby the farmer can b VI
row money on his land at . per cent,
and for period of time running from
five to thirty-fye years. The amorti'
cation scientifically worked out 10
meet the needs of the borrowers.
Farm Marketing.
This administration has established
a Bureau OF Marketing and placed the
study of distribution, OF buying and
selling in the hands of experts SO that
the farm products may be standard
lied and prepared, transported and dis
tributed to the consumer at the lowest
possible cost and waste, thus substi-
/ tuting up-to-date business-like methods
for the slip-shCd, wasteful plan so long
pursued as heretofore.
Parcel Post.
/ The Parcel Post System has been
! extended so as to directly aid the
! far farmer in shipping his produce TO
/ the city consumer, thus extending and
creating new markets and making di-
rect connections between producer and
consumer, and not only increasing the
/ farmers profits, but also decreasing
/ the cost of living.
Democratic Administration.
In July, 1918, the President procured
the enactment OF the Industrial Elm
! piCyes Arbitration Act. The pOssibil-
tiles for good of this wise piece OF
! Democratic legislation are incalcula.
bic. 1t will soften ard mollify the as
perities heretofore existing between
Capital and Labor, employer and EN-.
p,Cye. Each interest is assured Cf a
free and fair hearing of its grievances
and their disputes are submitted JC
and considered by wise and sympa
thetic arbitTatOrs eagerly anxious tC
adjust all differences in spirit OF jus
tice, liberation, and fair play. Already
numerous, far-reaching issues bejweel
Capital and Labor have been settled
notably the adjustment of the pendine
| strike between the railways and theI
employees in the Middle West, which. i
not amicably arranged, would have
meant civil war, thereby abundant,
demonstrating the efficiency and Wis
dom OF this measure. Many other in
dustrial disputes which would hav,
quickly assumed the proportions o
Industrial wars between employer an,
employee have been satisfactorily set
ted, and millions saved to the con
tending parties, and all CT ;he incon
veniences to the general public Incl
dent 10 such conditions ayerted.
The Eight Hour Bill
The Eight II ar Bill extends the op
eratiOns of the eight hour law both t.
work done for and by the government
,hus putting the stamp OF Federal ap
prevail upon a working day of eigh
hours length.