The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-10-21
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
HAS SHOWN THAT 1T is SEC
TIONAL IN INTEREST.

Does the American farmer desire a
perpetuation of Democratic rule in the
White House and in Congress?
To judge from the treatment melted
out to the farmer during the Wilson
Administration and the Democratic
Congresses of that Administration the
farmers, outside of the "Solid South"
and in sections that are traditionally
Democratic, will vote the Republican
ticket almost en- masse on Tuesday Of
week after next. II Il -
Under the present Republican Con-
gress the farmer has not been molest-
ed, injured or annoyed by discrimina
tory Legislation. Under the last Con-
gress which was controlled by the
Democrats in House and Senate, the
farmer in all states outside of the
South was outrageously Disseminated
against. That Democratic Congress
fixed wartime price on wheat-$2. 10
per bushel The Democratic leaders.
who absolutely controlled that Con
gress through the caucus system.
which in turn was controlled by the
votes of the Representatives and Sem
ators from the Southern States, re-
fused to fix any price on cotton AMI
rice-two purely Southern products.
The Democratic Congress, by fixing
the price of wheat at $2.10 per bushel
simply took out of the pockets of the
wheat farmers of the country hum
dreds of millions of dollars that they
would otherwise have received for
their grain in an open world market,
1t was the general opinion at the time
the price of wheat was fixed at $2.lO
per bushel that it would have brought
Tar more in an open market, and later
this belief became certainty when it
was learned that without fixed price
on American wheat that grain during
the war would have brought$5 or more
per bushel in the worlds markets. The
Democratic Congress and the Wilson
Administration therefore simply pre-
vented American wheat farmers from
getting all his wheat was worth. On
the other hand the Wilson Administra-
ton and the Democratic Congress al
lowed the Southern cotton and rice
farmer to get all he could for his two
staples. Southern cotton and rice
growers piled up immense fortunes
under the fostering care of their
representatives and senators in the
Democratic Congress, which was abso-
lutely dominated by these men in ev-
erything it did. Rice and cotton prices
were fixed by the worlds law of sup
ply and demand, and the rice and cot
ton men got all the cash their products
brought in the open market.
Nothing in the whole history of
Democratic legislation was ever more
unjust than this.
Similarly the Democratic Congress
fixed price on wool-mainly a west
ern product, but refused to fix a price
on lumber-another product princi-
pally of the South
This Congress also fixed a price on
coal. Most of the coal in the United
States is mined in the North and the
Middle West.
How many hundreds of millions of
dollars were thus taken out of the
pockets of the wheat farmer, the wool
grower and the coal miner it would be
hard to estimate, but the total sum
would stagger the imagination. How
many hundreds of millions were put
in the pockets of the Southern cotton
growers and the Southern rice grow
ers and the Southern lumberman can
not be estimated, but it too would
cause amazemept if correctly com
puted. p@p-s-
Whenever Congress has been Dem
ocratic it has invariably been con-
trolld by coterie of Southern Sena.