Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-19
HOW FARMERS SHOULD VOTE

Editor Every Evening Farmers N
Delaware, as elsewhere. are bitterly DIS
appointed. and some Of them ruined, he
cause their great crops of this year are
selling below cost For q long time past
farming has been so poor s. business ~
parts Of New England that thousands Of
acres have been left fallow, and hundreds
az farmholsce have been deserted and
permitted 10 fall INTO run. Must farming
In Delaware. with her far longer growing
season. far more favorable climate, her
exemptlon from long droughts and from
June frosts, go the way Of farming IL New
England?
A vote for Harding IS q vote to continue
the evil conditions with which farmers now
struggle. American farmers suffer not ONLY
from onerous taxation. scarcity Of suitable
labor. costly and Ineffective fertilizers,
high freight rates, slow delivery Of farm
products. generally inefficient distribution,
and profteering middlemen. They suffer,
as all except a lucky few IL this country
must suffer. from the dIsorganlzed con-
sdition of Europe 4 vote for MI HardlDg
is a vote to keep Us out Of the League OF
Nations. to keep Europe dlsoTganlzed. and
above all, 10 limit the world market OF the
American farmer. Mr. Harding has an
po6nced that ne Will ralse the tariff wall
to restrict impoTtatlons Of European
goods, and he SAYS that he would rather
see theyillions owed US by Europe lost 10
us rather than European goods brought
into competition with home manufactures.
A vote for MIR Harding then IS Q vote
TO exclude In large measure, European
goods, and 10 leave Europe not only IN
able to pay her debt TO us, but unable TO
buy our farm products, Tor Europe must
nay for corn. wheat, apples, oats, cotton.
and whatever else we produce lor export,
! with goods of some sort made III Europe
| If We decline 10 take American goods,
| Europe must decline to take our surplus,
and every year Of great crops will see the
! farmers disappointed and help to make
/ and keep them poor. If Mr. Harding says
! he will protect the farmer he makes a
/ promise that every thinking man knows
| he cannot keep The American farmer
/ produces more per man than anS other
! farmer in the world, though European
| farmers produce more per acre than we
| because they use far more men per acre
/ To grow their crops.
/ The European farmer can send little OF
/ nothing to our markets. The American
! farmer can accommodate himself &c
| scarce and high labor by the greater use
Of machinery, and by cooperation, but
he cannot accommodate himself to q
| world in economic and industrial disorder
A vote for Cox is vote for q world
rapidly brough back TO order, for the open
| ing Of markets to our surplus farm
products, for improved transportation
| through wise and strict control Of the
railways and steamboats, that carry
products to the ports and to our domestic
markets, for the encouragement Of intel
Hgent cooperative buying and selling by
farmers, for the reconciliation Of the farm
ing communities with our city folk who
often mistakenly blame the high price OF
| food upon farmers generally, some OF
whom are producing at "A loss. Think OF
tomatoes in Sussex at Is cents aa6-basket,
| and apples in both kent and Sussex rottlng
beneath the trees, and compare those con-
| ditions with market prices IN Wilmington.
| The only farmers that can share IN the
high prices Of the day are the lucky few
within easy reach Of city markets. vote
for Mr. Harding IS a vote for no relief TO
the great mass Of farmers
r. n. Vallandigham.
Boston, Mass, Oct is, 1920