The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-09-23
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND
THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

v-ur b.aunual meeting of the American Farm Federation in Chi
cago last week adopted a resolution which Is Of vital interest 70
i The livestock industry of New Mexico. The wool growing divis.
ion Of that industry has just experienced the financial catssuopne ~
the utter collapse Of the wool market right at the time when az no y
the seasons clip was necessary to finance future operations. rms
was accompanied by a sudden contraction of credits which not only
added to the hardships of wool growers but which mas orough. e".,e
growers face to face with a crisis fully as grave. So serious has inc
cattlemans situation become, in fact, that Senator A. A. Jones Oh
New Mexico, with other western livestock growers, found IT nsecs,
sary TO make a personal plea to the federal reserve board fr enc
a plea which has been without result, so far as isknown.
Republicans have been charged by democratic propagandists
with a desire to break down the federal reserve banking system
This. of course, is not true But IT is true .na, the r sg%" nc ho pSeHs
available not only to automobile manufacturers in Michigan and cot
ton growers in the solid south. but also to the great farming and i've
stock producing industries of the west. If any such policy is being
considered by the democratic party it is strangely silent concern
ing it,
Here is the resolution adopted by the farm federation;
'Bc it resolved by the American Farm Federation, that
we are unquaifedly opposed to the government policy OF
arbitrarily fixing prices ON farm produce, which has resulted
in a reduction in the prices OF many OF the products oil me
farm below actual cost of production.
1--WE demand that the government make a study of the
prices of agricultural products and the cost of producing the
same to the end that the frequent, abnormal and ruinous
Auctuaion in the prices of products OF the farm may be
avoided.
"wc demand that congress enact a law revising the
tariff on agricultural and farm produce so that the products
of the American farm be adequately protected against cheap
farm la ws ss = 5SI p demand a't that q he taT : on live stock
and live stock products shall be sufficient to thoroughly pro.
States in greater stock raising activities, said tariff duties to
equal the difference in the cost of production Of such com
modites in the United States and in other countries. -
"Bc il further resolved that we farmers and stock ais
crs of the United States, demand real and practical repre-
scntation in the appointment of cabinet members and gov
eminent officials.
eve especially demand that the secretary of agriculture
be a practical farmer, thoroughly conversant with the needs
and demands Of the farmer and having practical experience
in farm operation"
These are policies that have been either ignored or opposed b,
the present democratic administration and by those democrats who
aspirrc 10 succeed n References TO the farming problems of the ma
ton by Governor Cox have been extremely vague and only less def
mite and reassuring than his references to the livestock industry
AS to a protective tariff for New Mexico's principal industry, thu
democratic candidate no doubt regards that, like prohibition, as be
ing ''as dead as slavery So Ear as the producers Of this state arr
concerned, however, the issue is very much alive, as will be shown or
election day.