Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-09-09
HARDING OUTLINES
PROGRAM TO HELP
FARM INTERESTS
Constructive Policies Designex
to Make Rural Life Mo- e
Attractive Set Forth in Ad-
dress at Minnesota State
Fair.

Minnesota. State Fair Grounds,
Sept. 8.-An agricultural program
designed to keep the nation self-sus-
tanning and to improve conditions
of farmers was outlined by Senator
Harding, republican nominee for the
presidency, in a speech today at the
Minnesota state fair.
In specific terms the candidate sets
forth his policy as contemplating the
following steps: ...
Larger representation for farmers
in government al affairs, particularly
with regard to trade and finance.
Establishment Of system of CO.
operative negotiations for marketing
farm products.
A scientific study of the world
market for farm production with a
view to stabilization of prices.
Curtailment of unnecessary price
fixing and of "ill-considered efforts,
arbitrarily to reduce farm product
prices"
Administration of the farm loan
act so as to decrease the tenancy,
promote diversified farming and pro-
vide long-term credits.
Restoration of railway facilities to
a state of highest efficiency.
Revision of the tariff to protect
American agriculture from unfair
competition.
Both reclamation and intensive
farming, the nominee said, would
have their places in development OF
the nations agricultural resources to
a capacity which would insure to pos
terity an abundance of domestic
food products. He emphasized the
need for diversified crops and also de
clared it. essential that there be
normal balance between grain and
livestock production.
Deploring the drift of population
from country to city, Senator Harding
advocated an improvement IN the So
cial life of the farm and such. an ad-
ministration of economic laws as
would insure "a fair balance between
our urban and rural industries. he
praised the part played by the farm
ers during the war, declaring that
<.'it never will be understood or fully
appreciated by our people"
The candidate described his con-
ception of the future of American
farming as contemplating "a system
of agriculture which will enable us
to feed our people abundantly Win
some to spare for export in years 81
plenty, and at prices which Will IN
sure to the farmer and his tam1ly
both financial rewards and educa-
tional, social, and religious nv1ng
conditions, fairly comparable to those
offered by cities"
The crux of the whole agricultural
problem, declared the nominee, Is the
question whether the nation is to fol-
low short-sighted policy of explolta-
tion or adopt a program to insure
continued prosperity upder a self
sustaining system.
MIR. Harding's Address.
In his address delivered today at
the Minnesota State Fair senator
Harding said:
II come to you with common in
terest and very common concern
for the welfare of our country. Whlle
it is in my thought to speak to you
specifically concerning agriculture
| want to so convey my thought as
to have it known that 1 am thinking
not of the welfare alone OF those en-
gagged in agriculture but the welfare
of agriculture as it relates to the
America. % | very much deplore the
present-day tendency to appeal to
the particular group in American
activities. It has become very
common practice to make one ad-
dress to those who constitute the
ranks of labor, another to those
who make up the great farming
comm unity and still another to the
manufacturing world and its assoc
iates in commerce, and to other
groups of less importance. There
is a very natural and a very genuine
interest in each and every one, but
the utterance of a political party
nominee ought, in every instance.
to be inspired by a purpose to serve
our common country. II America Is
to go on and come to the heights of
achievement, we must of necessity
be "all for one and one for all.
That Dollar Wheat Tale
LET me say, in passing, hope it
is entirely seemly to remind you that
no public man, particularly no pub
lie servant from the great wheat
raising state Of Ohio, would dare to
think, much less to say, he believed
in dollar wheat amid the price wild
ness which the world Is contemplat-
ing today. speak of it, because we
are getting acquainted today and /
do not mean to have any misunder-
standing between you and me, and
/ will not be grossly and unfairly
misrepresented.
II have helped to cut sixty-cent
wheat. I have known it to sell at
forty cents. I have followed the
cradle, and sweated behind the reap,
%er when binding was a cross to-
bear and / know spoke the truth
when said, some years ago, that
Ohio farmers, in the normal days
before the war, rejoiced to raise dol-
lar wheat. That statement had no
reference to wartime; none to the
present after-war period. Condi-
Stions, as we'll as prices, have chang
ed since made that perfectly nat
gural and truthful statement and 9th
$er greater and important changes
are in contemplation, and no misre-
presentation is necessary to bring
them about. Il: :s9a:s1' q: n
A good many years ago a Chinese
philosopher uttered profound
truth when Re said: The well being
sof q people is like at tree; agrtcul-
ture is Its root. manufacture and
commerce are its branches and its
life; IL the root is injured and the
leaves fall, the branches break and
the tree dies. - =, ,is..ss sl.. NJ
!. Senator Harding reviewed II the
course Of farmdng in this country,