Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-03
NE " DAY DAWNS
FOR FARNE RS IF
COX IS ELECTED
"Dirt" AgriCuIturistS To Be
Appointed to Responsible
Government Positions, He
Says In Speech.

SoJ " III SPNSStIs
Isr MORNING. JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRKi
Columbus, O., Governor Cox to-
day declared that if elected presi-
dent he would appoint "dirt farm
ers' to responsible government pO-
sitions, including the secretary of
agriculture and members of the
federal reserve and regional re-
servo boards tariff commissions
and the Interstate Commerce COM
mission.
The democratic presidential nom
inee discussed agricultural ques-
tons and outlined his proposed
| policies in an address at the exec
utive office to about one hundred.
representative of the National
| Board of Farm organizations hold
ing a convention here.
Federal regulation of cold storage
| facilities, a fair test of private rail
| road ownership and operation and
cooperative buying and selling by
farmers, was advocated by Cover
nor Cox He also declared that
business, labor and agricultural in
terests must have defined by law
| limitations which they can under
stand and stay within their future
| conduct.
| Declaring himself to be "a farm
| err and not an agriCulturalist,' Gov
| ernor Cox said he congratulated
! American farmers upon lending
their Rip Van Wrinkle sleep and
moving toward organized better
| ment of their condition.
| Farmers are not only entitled to
| larger representation in govern
ment," he said, "but the public will
| have its efficiency by larger repre-
| sentation of agricultural thought"
Advocating appointment of farm
ers to the federal reserve board
and, also regional boards, Governor
Cox added:
II mean by that. dirt farmers;
you know what | mean.
Il wish there were more farm
ers on them now. A great many in
terests do not look with favor on
my election because they want to
change the law Cthe federal re-
serve act) by making bankers only
| eligible for membership. Nothing
| could be more menacing to the
| farmers. The time has come for
the farmer to have his feet under
the table when policies are being
| made
| Farmers are needed on the tariff
and Interstate Commerce commits
sions, Governor Cox said, to aid in
| the supervision, respectively agri-
culal exports and transportation.
81 do not believe there is a man
on the Interstate Commerce com
mission" he said, who knows
much, if anything, about farming.
I'm not criticising the policies of
the administration that have led to
this thing but I'm contrasting what
is, with what ought to be.
more than this, | favor appoint
ment of a dirt farmer as secretary
of agriculture. You may recall |
gave that policy in my speech of ac-
ceptance."
"The time is here" the governor
continued, for farming to make
the same development in efficiency
as manufacturing, by buying as,
cheaply as possible, producing lsI
much as possible in a working day
and having a selling department on
the farm. In the past farmers have
had only one department, the SELL
ing.
THE manufacturer is the COM
petitor of the farmer for labor"
You can't get the help that YOU
want unless you organize your bust
ness policy along the same lines.
You've got to buy more intelligent
ly than in the past, and that means
you've got to buy comparatively in
America.
Agricultural sales, the governor
declared, are involved in the con
duct of cold storage, grain and
livestock marketing. Great inter
ests, the candidate said, control
their purchase of farm products !
and, also. control sales to consum-
ers by keeping the supply just be
hind the demand"
Urging federal regulation of cold
storage, Governor Cox added:
"Unsupervised cold storage
plants have caused some city peo-
pie to look upon the farmer, with
out any justification whatever, as
a profiteer."
In discussing transportation
problems, Governor Cox said that
more terminals and equipment are
needed.
but private ownership" he de-
clared, lis entitled to the very best
test possible. If service and prices
can be satisfactorily guaranteed to
the public, private ownership,
think 1t has been demonstrated as
best in practically all endeavors, l
think it has been demonstrated as
best in practically all endeavors,
should continue and public owner
shin NOT THOUGHT pf |