Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-07-15

federal statutes affording one dollar OF
bank credits to the farming interests Of
America. In the first term Of this Demo-
cratic administration the national bank
act was so altered as to authorize loans
Of five years maturity on improved farm
lands. Later was established q system OF
farm loan banks. from which the borrow
ings already exceed three hundred mill
lions of dollars, and under which the In
terest rate to farmers has been so mate
rally reduced as to drive out OF business
the farm LOAF sharks who formerly sub
sisted by extortion upon the great agri-
cultural interests of the country.
Thus II was a Democratic congress in
the administration of a Democratic presi-
dent which enabled the farmers of Amer
lea for the first time to obtain credit upon
reasonable terms n insured their oppor-
tuntty for the future development OF the
nations agricultural resources.
Smith Lever Act Praised.
Not only did the Democratic party put
into effect a great farm-loan system Of
land mortgage banks, but 1t passed the
Smith-Lever agricultural extension act,
carrying to every farmer in every section
trained experts andp by demonstration
farms, the practical knowledge acquired
by the federal agricultural department In
all things relating to agriculture, horti-
culture and animal life. 1t established the
bureau of markets, the bureau of farm
eAA1 Raoo~e
lures act. the grain grades bill, the CO.
operative farm administration act, and
the federal warehouse act.
The Democratic party has vastly i'm
proved the rural mail system and has
built up the parcel post system to such
an extent as to render its activities and
Its practical service indispensable to the
farming community. II was this wise en-
couragement n this effective concern OF
the Democratic party for the farmers OF
the United States that enabled this great
interest to render such essential service
in feeding The armies of America and the
allied alton Of the war and succorinS
starving populations since armistice day.
G. o. p. Condemned.
Meanwhile the Republican leaders at
Washington have failed utterly to propose
one single measure to make rural life
more tolerable. They have ~signalized
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; covertly
attempting to destroy the great nitrogen
plant at Mussel Shoals upon which the
government has expended $1,000 900 to sup
ply American farmers with fertilizers at
reasonable cost; by ruthlessly Gripping
nearly every branch OF agricultural en-
deavor, literally Gripping the productive
mediums through which the people must
be fed.
We favor such legislation as will con-
firm to the primary producers of the ma
ton the right of collective bargaining and
the right of cooperative handling and
marketing of the products of the work.
shop and the farm and such legislation as
will facilitate the expectation of our farm
products.
Z We favor comprehensive studies of farm
production costs and the uncensored pub
LEGATION Of facts found in such strides.
Labor and Industry.
The Democratic party is now as
ever, the firm friend of honest labor
and the promoter Of progressive in
dustry. 1t established the department
cratic president called to his official
council board the first practical work.
ingman who ever held a cabinet port
folio. Under this administration have
been established employment bureaus
to bring the man and the job together;
have been peaceably determined many
bitter disputes between capital n
labor; were passed the child labor
act, the workingman's compensation
act (the extension of which we advo-
cate so as to include laborers engaged
in loading and unloading ships n in
interstate commerce), the eight-hour
law. the act for vocational training and
a code of other wholesome laws affect
ditions of the laboring classes.
In the department of labor the DEM
ocratic administration established a
woman's bureau, which a Republican
congress destroyed by withholding ap-
preparations.
Labor is not a commodity; 1t Is hu-
man. Those who labor ave rights
and the national security and safety
those rights and the conservation Of
the strength of the workers and their
families in the interest Of sound
hearted and sound-headed men, wom-
en- and children. Laws regulating
hours of labor and conditions under
which labor is performed, when passed
in recognition Of the conditions under
which life must be lived to attain the
highest development and happiness. are
just assertions Of the national interest
in the welfare of the people.
At the same time the nation de-
ponds upon the products of labor; a
cessation of production means loss and.
If long continued. disaster. The whole
sist that Justice shall be lone to those
who work, and in urn that those
whose labor creates the necessities
upon which the life of the nation de-
ponds must recognize the reciprocal
obligation between the worker and the
state.
They should participate in the form
~ulation of oun laws n regulations
governing the conditions under which
labor is performed, recognize and oey
the laws so formulated and seek their
amendment when necessary by the
processes ordinarily addressed to the
laws and regulations affecting the
other relations of life.
Labor. as well as capital, Is entitled
to adequate compensation. Each has
the indefeasible right of organization.
of collective bargaining and of speak
ing through representatives Of their
own selection.
Neither class, however. should at
any time nor in any circumstances
take action that will put in jeopardy
the public welfare. Resort to strikes
and lockouts which endanger. the
unsatisfactory device for determining
disputes, and the Democratic party
pledges itself to contrive, II possible.
and put into effective operation a fair
and Comprehensive method of compos-
ing differences of this nature.
In private Industrial disputes we are
opposed to compulsory arbitration as
a method plausible in the theory but
a failure in fact. With respect to row.
that the rights Of the people are para.
noun to the right to strike. How
ever. we profess scrupulous regard for
the conditions of public employment
and pledge the Democratic party to
instant inquiry into the pay of gov
eminent employees and equally speedy
regulations designed to bring salaries
to a just and proper level.
Woman's Suffrage.
We indorse the proposed nineteenth
amendment of the Constitution of the
United States granting equal suffrage
iatures OF Sthirty-ive states which have
already ratified said amendment, and
we urge the Democratic governors and
legislatures of Tennessee. North Caro-
lima and Florida, and such states as
have not yet ratified the federal suf-
PRO oa amendment to unite in an afforx