Bisbee daily review., 1920-07-03
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passed the SmithLever Agricultural Extension Act. carrying to every far mer in every section of the country. through the medium of trained eX- perts and by demonstration farms, the practical knowledge acquired by the federal agricultural department in all things relating of agriculture, horticulture and animal life; it es- tablished the bureau of markets, the bureau of farm management and passs ed the cotton futures act. the grain grades bill. the cooperative farm ad- 'ministration act, the federal ware house act
 The Democratic party has vastly improved ,the rural mail system and has built up the parcel post system : to such an extent as to render it's act Nivities and it's practical service in- Responsible to the farming communi- ty. It was this wise encouragement and this effective concern of the Democratic party for the farmers of the country that enabled this great interest to render such essential ser vice in feeding the armies of Ameri- ca and the allied nations of the war and succoring populations since ar mistice day.
 Meanwhile. the Republican leaders at Washington have failed utterly to propose one single measure to make rural life more tolerable. They have signalzed 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, by covertly attempting to destroy the great nitro gen plant at Muscle Shoals upon which the government has expended S70,000,000 to supply American farm CTS with fertilizer at reasonable cost; by ruthlessly crippling nearly every branch of agricultural endeavor, lit erally crippling the productive medi- ums through which the people must be fed
 We favor such legislation as will conform to the primary producers of the nation the right of collective bar gaining and the right of cooperative handling and marketing of the pro ducts Of the workshop and the farm and such legislation as will facilitate the exportation Of our farm products.
 We favor comprehensive studies of farm production costs and the uncen- sured publication of facts found in such studies.
 Labor and Industry
 The Democratic party is now, as ever. the firm fliend of honest labor and the promoter of progressive in dustry We established the depart ment af labor at Washington and Democratic president called to his of ficial council board the first practical working man who ever held cabinet portfolio. Under this administration have been made efforts to bring the man and the job together more firm ly, and settle disputes between capi- tai and labor We passed the child labor act, the workingman's compen- sation act (the extension of which we advocate so as to include laborers en- gagged in loading and unloading ships
  hour law, the act for vocational train ing and a code of other wholesome laws effecting the liberties and bet tering the conditions of the laboring classes. In the department of labor the Democratic administration passed woman's bureau, which a Republi- can congress destroyed by withhold. ing appropriations.
 Labor is not a commodity. it is hu- 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, wo- men and children.
 Laws regulating hours of labor and conditions under which labor is per formed, when passed in recognition of the conditions under which life musr be lived to attain the highest develop ment and happiness, are just asser. tions of the national interest in the welfare of the people.
 At the same time, the nation de bends upon the products of labor; cessation of production means loss and, if long, continued disaster. The whole people therefore, have right to insist that justice shall be done to those who work, and in turn that those whose labor creates the neces- sities upon which the life of the na7 ton depends must recognize the re- ciprocated obligation between the worker and the state. They should participate in the formulation of sound laws and regulations governing the conditions under which labor is performed, recognize and obey the l laws so formulated and seek their | amendment when necessary by the | processes ordinarily addressed to the |