The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-03


have nearly arrived at the point which
all nations experience sooner or later
that OF land hunger within our borders.
When land hunger is approaching the
land becomes field for speculation by
large capital; the home owning farmer
is displaced and the less permanent ten
ant farmer is put upon our soil.
Would Curb Land speculntor.
'To meet this situation | have pro-
posed, and will continue to propose, that
whatever our Federal Government may
properly do must be done to enable the
private citizen, who desires either to
RETAIN the farm which he is operating
or 10 obtain a farm TO operate. to have
available the capital which will prevent
the land Spectator. who does nothing
for production or for Improvement, from
disppcing the farmer who does every
thing for producing and Improvement.
THE second large task before ms 10
the Improvement of the distribution or
farm products. believe that distribu-
ton. rather than production. is the more
diilculs of the two great problems or
advancing civilization. ] believe that
this applies particularly TO farm prod
ucts and that the nation will have pro-
found cause for regret II ways are not
found to make more swift and sure and
inexpensive the passing OF the yield OF
mother earth to hungry mouths. /
stand squarely for policies which Will
solve our distribution problem.
1--WE must. whenever IL is necessary,
encourage to the fullest extent coopera-
tive selling and distribution of agricul-
tural products and cooperation buying
by the consumers. do not mean by this
/ hot xrriaA frth Ttf n
| by their skill and specialization in dis
tribution a real service. should net re-
ceive the protection of all of us, but 1
do mean that wasteful forms of distri-
button must promptly be abandoned
| and l do say that profiteering must be
| squeezed out l understand that the
State OF New York has found that APP
pies which the farmer sells for one cent
q pound have been retailing to the con-
sumers in New York city at "a cents a
pound. Examples of this kind are mani
fold and call out to us in voices to
which we must give immediate heed
would Improve Transportation.
stabilize transportation facilities and
their rates; that we must deal with our
railroads in the hands of the private
owners who are, in fact, an army Of
American investors, SO squarely and
with such regard for our own well
fare as will bring-yhe railroad systems
of this country not only to the point of
adequate service but to the point where
| they may attract new investments from
| the savings of the people in order to
| begin again the extensions necessary.
mo Americans, more than the farm
ers. unless 1t be the consumers, have
more vital interests at stake than the
health and growth of our railways.
ITO the railway facilities for dis
tribution Of agricultural products we
must add feeders of the railways l
refer to inland waterways and motor
truck transportation and the develop
ment and maintenance of roads designed
for the movement of goods. rather than
for holiday speeding. In the develop
ment of our waterways, we must turn
our backs upon the system Of pork
barrel appropriations, and, Under a ma
tional budget system, make our expendi-
lures according to the counsel of a
proper commission. whose aim will be TO
develop a true national system of inland
waterways for all the American people,
instead of Incorporating moneys for
the exclusive satisfaction of single COM
munities.
waterway transportation has never
proved to be competitor of railways.
but rather a feeder of railways.
we must do a third thing for the
American farmer. When he is menaced
from foreign countries by the importa
ton of foodstuffs raised by exploited
/ soil. or by cheap labor which knows
nothing Of American standards of living.
or by Government subsidies given to
agricultural production abroad. we must
have no hesitation in protecting agri-
culture and horticulture. just as we
have no hesitation about protecting in
dustry by properly adjusted protec-
tive tariff rate.
These three policies must be the
main policies accepted by the whole
American people to preserve the basic
| industry the industry so vital to our
national warfare, our national defence
ard our national future that IL Is the
first concern of the dwellers in indus
/ trial centres"
I Would Elevate Farms Cu1turalIy.
But IL is not from an economical
I sta ndpOint alone that the nj