The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-08
HARDING SETS
OUT PROGRAM
FOR FARMERS
Senator Outlines Stand on
Solving of Agricultural !
Problems - Believes Need
Is Stronger Representation.
WOULD STUDY MARKETS
(By Associated PreSSY

James NJ. Cox, his Democratic op.
ponent, Senator Warren G.. Harding,
Republican candidate for president,
had busy day before him on his ar
rival in st. Paul from Chicago today,
including an address on agriculture
at the Minnesota state fair grounds.
Senator Harding and his party welc
greeted by delegation of Republicans
and other citizens when their special
train pulled in shortly after o'clock
this morning. After an informal re-
ception at the depot, the Republican
nominee rode in an automobile pa
rade to the state fair grounds.
There he made brief address to
farm boys attending the exposition,
and then reviewed various exhibits.
At noon he was the guest of the
state fair board at luncheon, follow.
ing which he spoke at 1880 p. m,,
before the grand stand-his principal
address of the day. w. C.. Murphy
president Of the board, introduced tho
speaker.
VIII Head Auto Parade.
From the fair grounds, Senator
Harding will head an auto parade TO
Minneapolis, where he will be the
guest Of the Lincoln Republican club
at a public reception. Returning to
st. Paul, at 6 p. M, Senator and Mrs.
Harding will dine at the home Of Ben
F. Myers, Mrs. Harding's cousin.
Another public reception will be
held tonight at the state capital here
The building will be specially illumi.
mated for the occasion, and the sena
tor will shake hands with as many
persons as possible. He leaves late
;oxIx No
Senator Harding, in his speech at
the state fair. set forth his policy as
contemplating the following steps:
Larger representation Of farmers in
governmental affairs, particu,a rly with
regard to trade and finance.
Establishment of a system of CO.
operative associations for marketing
farm products.
Would Study World Market
A scientific study of the world mar
ket for farm products, with a view to
stabilization of prices.
Curtailment Of unnecessary price
fixing and of "ill-considered efforts
arbitrarily to reduce farm product
prices"
Administra ton of the farm loan act
so as to decrease tenancy. promote di-
versified farming, and provide for
long-term credits.
Restoration of railway facilities to
a state of highest efficiency.
Revision of the tariff to protect
American agriculture from unfair
competition.
Both recla nation and intensive
farming, the nominee said, would
have their places in a development of
the nations agricultural resources to
a capacity which would insure to pos
terity an abundance of domestic food
products. He stressed the need for
diversified crops and also declared
1t essential that there be normal
balance between grain and livestock.
DepIores Drift to City
Deploring the 6 of population
from country to city. Senator Harding
advocated an improvement in the Soc
ial life of the farm and such an ad-
m1nistration of economic laws as
would insure "a fair balance between
our urban and rural industries" He
praised the part played by the farmers
during the war, declaring that sit
never will be understood or fully ap-
preciated by our people"
The candidate described his con-
ception Of the future Of American
farming as contemplating "a system
of agriculture which will enable us to
feed our people abundantly. with some
to spare for export in years Of plenty,
and at prices which will insure to the
farmer and his family both financial
rewards and education, social and re-
ligious living conditions fairly COM
parable to those offered by cities"
yph hn
and wise in time of national crisis, the
Senator said, but prices in the long
run must rest rather on natural laws
than on arbitrary enactments.
Government drives against food
prices such as we have experienced
during the past two years are equally
vain and useless" he continued. THE
ostensible purpose Of such drives Is to
reduce the price the consumer pays
for food. The actual result is unjust
ly to depress for a time the prices the
farmer receives for his grains and live
stock, but with no apprecia BILE reduc-
ton in the price the consumer pays
Such drives simply give the speculator
and the profiteer additional opportuni-
ties to add to their exactions."
Must Continue Prosperity
The cruX of the whole agricultural
problem. declared the nominee, is the
question whether the nation is to fol-
low a short-sighted policy of exploita-
tion or adopt a program to insure con-
tinued prosperity under a self-sustain-
ing system.
The time has come" said he,
when as a nation we must determine
on definite agricultural policy. We
must decide whether We shall under
take to make the United States a self
sustaining nation or whether we shall
continue to exploit our agricultural re-
sources for the benefit of our indus
trial and commercial life and leave to
posterity the task of finding food
enough by strong-arm methods If nee
essary to support the coming hun
dreds Of millions.
'T believe in she self-sustaining, in
dependent. self-evident nation. agri-
cultunlly, industrially and politically
"The farmer reonfres M specia1 IA