The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-06-04
FARMERS ASSISTED
BY G. 0. P. S0L0NS
Stop Much Discrimination
Against And Hit At
Profiteers

the farmers OF the country by the
Republican Congress which is about
20 recess for the summer
1t is true that the law shifted ar
unnatural burden which President
Wilson had insisted should be perma-
nently imposed upon those who till
the soil and insisted upon it by dis
eliminating in favor of the cities. BY
demanding that the clocks be set back
an hour in time of peace in order to
assist the manufacturer and store
proprietor he defied the rights of the
country dweller. He vetoed the reso-
luton for the repeal of the law enact
cd for the war and the Republicans
passed it over his veto. The result
is that the farmer today regulates his
hours by standard time and does not
have to do all of his work in the ex-
treme heat of the day. or arise in
summer when it is yet dark.
But other measures have commend
ed themselves to the remembrance of
the farming communities of the
Northern and border sections of the
country. Immediately upon attain
ing power, a year and more ago, the
Republicans completely eradicated
the domination of the Southern
Democracy and the caucus rule by
which the South had during the war
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vor of cotton and against wheat by
leaving the former to go as high as
it could and imposing a limit upon
the price of the Northern staple. Con-
gress took away the power to discri-
inmate in favor of the South through
the richest war contracts and the
largest camps and plants. 1t restor-
ed an equitable distribution of means
OF agricultural development.
Herbert Hoover had said that
wheat would go up to seven dollars
a bushel if no restrictions were plac-
ed upon its natural market condition.
The farmers were somewhat expect
ant. But the cotton growers said
that was too much for his bread ma
teTial. So they got their representa-
tives to reduce it from the $3.50.
which it was then demanding per
bushel down to $500 per bushel The
United States Grain Corporation kept
st there until it was permitted to go to
z Dart nNrfV oh
restriction, went right on soaring.
The result was vastly higher clothing
cost to the Northern farmer When |
the Republicans took control of Con- |
gress they raised the wheat price to |
$2.4O per bushel and left cotton to |
fall to a natural level.
Favor or discrimination and unna- |
turalness of economic condition had |
become habit with the President.
Armed with his extensive war powers,
he was opposed to using it for the
Iessening of popular burdens, espe
cially ii urged to do so by Republican
)f Congress. Thus he was directed
By the Republican Congress to pur-
'hase the Cuban sugar crop. This
could have been done at cents per
pound But he obduTately turned
Town the suggestion, with the result
hal sugar went on up TO rs cents and
may go as high as 40 cents to the {
consumer To make the discomfort
II the people of the country COM
lcte. he permitted the Louisiana {
Iauters. they being situated in the
outt. TO charge as much as II and c
cents pen pound; that is, he per- a
litted the Attorney General to tell G
hem he would not prosecute them 4
they did charge that much. Eu S
Jpa then bought the Cuban crop for il
: own use at cents per pound and e
ne LoUisiaia planters charged what "
Iey pleased. f
when the Republicans came into
,cendancy in Congress they found on {
.o statute books a law regulating the
eat packers. But nobody paid any
.tcntion to it because it had no teeth
it, So the House Committee on i,
sricluture brought in a bill turning IL
re regulation Of stockyards over to n
Il Interstate Commerce Commission Q,
he sale of feed, yardage, trades and ST
lmmissions was made subject to its II
irisdictiOn. Manipulation. split Il
iymeuts between the five big pack q,
IS. and all that sort of thing were c,
rbidden. In other words, monopo- s,
ration Of the packing industry was 81
a'e dangerous by extreme and eX- OF
lett penalties. h,
In the Clayton antitrust act, nam 81
after Representative Clayton, who II
iiled from the South. it had been 81
ipulated that collective bargaining p;
ould not be denied to laboring men
ID 10 farmers. The same law pro
ded that no injunction or restrain 4
3 order should be issued in any dis
lie between employer and employee.