Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-07-08

: rule not a sentence was written into tn
FEDERAL statutes affording one dollar o
bank credits to the farming interests o
! | America In the first term OF this Demo
| cratic administration the national banl
ACT was so altered as to authorize loan
OF nve years maturity on improved farm
lands Later was established a system o
farm loan banks, from which the borrow
ings already exceed three hundred mil
lions OF dollars, and under which the In
terest rate to farmers has been so mate
rally reduced as to drive out Of business
the farm loan sharks who formerly sub
sisted by eXtortion upon the great agri
cultural interests of the country.
Thus II was a Democratic congress II
the administration of a Democratic presi
dent which enabled the farmers of Amer
lea for the first time to obtain credit upoT
reasonable terms and insured their oppor'
tunity for the future development of tbs
nations agricultural resources.
Smith Lever Act Praised.
Not only did the Democratic party put
into effect great farm-loan system OF
land mortgage banks, but II passed the
smith-Leyer AGRICULTURAL extension Act
Of the country. through the medium OF
trained experts and by demonstration
farms, the practical knowledge acquired
by the federal agricultural department In
all things relating to agriculture, horti-
culture and animal life 1t established the
bureau of markets, the bureau of farm
management and passed the cotton flu
operative farm administration act, and
the federal warehouse act.
The Democratic party has vastly i'm
proved the, rural mail system and has
built up the parcel post system to such
an extent as to render its activities and
It's practical service indispensable to the
farming community. 1t was this wise en-
couragement and this effective concern Of
the Democratic party for the farmers of
the United States that enabled this great
| interest to render such essential service
In feeding the armies v America and the
allied nations of the war and succoring
starving populations since armistce day.
G. o, P. Condemned.
Meanwhile the Republican leaders at
Washington have failed utterly to propose
| one single measure to make rural life
more tolerable. They have signalized
| their fifteen months of congressional
power by urging schemes which would
strip the farms of labor; by assailing the
| principles of the farm-loan system and
seeking to impair its efficiency; covertly
attempting to destroy the great nitrogen
plant at Mussel Shoals upon which the
government has expended $4,000 900 to sup
| ply American farmers with fertilizers at
reasonable cost; by ruthessly gripping
| nearly every branch OF agricultural en-
deavor, literally crippling the productive
mediums through which the people must
be fed.
We favor such legislation as will con-
firm to the primary producers of the ma
ton the right of collective bargaining and
the right OF cooperative handling and
marketing of the products of the work.
shop and the farm and such legislation as
will facilitate the expectation of our farm
products
We favor comprehensive studies of farm
production costs and the uncensored pub
lication of facts found in such studies.
Labor and Industry
The Democrats party is now. as
and the promoter OF progressive in
dusSry. 1t established the department
of labor at Washington and a Demo-
cratic president called to his official
council board the first practical work
ingman who ever held a cabinet port
folio. Under this administration have
been established employment bureaus
to bring the man and the job together;
have been peaceably determined many
bitter disputes between capital and
labor; were passed the child labor
act, the workingman's compensation
act (the extension of which we advo-
cate 50 as to include laborers engaged
in loading and unloading ships and in
interstate commerce9 the eight-hour
law. the act for vocational training and
a code Of other wholesome laws affect
ing the liberties and lettering the con-
ditions of the laboring classes.
In the department of labor the Dem
ocratic administration established a
woman's bureau, which a Republican
congress destroyed by withholding ap-
preparations.
! Labor is not a commodity; it is hui
man. Those who labor have rights
and the national security and safety
depend upon a Just recognition of
those rights and the conservation of
the strength of the workers and their
families in the interest of sound
hearted and sound headed men, wom-
en- and children. Laws regulating
hours Of labor and conditions under
which labor Is performed, when passed
inN recognition of the conditions under
which life must be lived to attain the
I. H. l..
just assertions of the national interest
in the welfare of the people.
At the same time the nation de-
Ponds upon the. products of labor; a
cessation of production means loss and
If long continued, disaster. The whole
people, therefore, have a right to IN
sist that justice shall be done to those
whose labor creates the necessities
upon which the life of the nation de-
ponds must recognize the reciprocal |
OBLIGATION between the worker and the
state.
They should participate in the form
ulation of sound laws and regula tons |
governing the conditions under which |
the laws so formulated and seek their |
amendment when necessary by the \
processes ordinarily addressed to the |
laws and regulations affecting the |
other relations of life.
Labor as well as capital. is entitled |
to adequate compensation. Each has |
the indefeasble right of organization I
of collective bargaining and of speak |
ing through representatives of their
own selection.
Neither class, however should at
any time nor in any circumstances |
take action that will put in jeopardy
the public welfare, Resort to strikes
and lockouts which endanger the
health or lives of the people is an
unsatisfactory device for determining
disputes, and the Democratic party
pledges itself to contrive, If possible.
and put into effective operation a fair
and comprehensive method of compos-
ing differences of this nature.
In private industrial disputes we are
opposed to compulsory arbitration as
a method plausible in the theory but
a failure in fact. With respect to gov
erument service, we hold distinctly
mount to the right to strike How
ever. we profess scrupulous regard for
the conditions of public employment
and pledge the Democratic party to
instant inquiry into the pay Of gov
eminent employees and equally speedy
regulations designed to bring salaries |
to just and proper level
Woman's Suffrage.
We indorse the proposed nineteenth
amendment of the Constitution OF the
United States granting equal suffrage
to women. We congratulate the legis-
latures of thirty five states which have
already ratified said amendment and
we urge the Democratic governors and
Of Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and Florida, and such states as
have not yet ratified the federal sur
fra ge amendment. to unite in an effort