The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-09-28
Declares Definite National Agri-
cultural Policy Is Vital to
- Country's Welfare. d
WOULD PUT END TO PRICE
FIXING OF FARM PRODUCTS
Co Address Before Minnesota ststs
Fair Republican Nominee shows
Profound Understanding u
El Farming and It's Problems,

Minneapolis tSpeciaI) .-"The time
has come when. as a nation, we must
determine upon q definite agricultural
policy. We must decide whether we
shall undertake 10 make of the United
States q self-sustaining natlon-whlcb
means that we shall grow within our
own boundaries all OF the staple food
sroducts needed to maintain the high.
oct tyne NJ civilization or whether
I'VE shall continue 10 exploit our agrt.
cultural resources foi the benefit Of
our industrial md commercial life, and
10 ieave 10 posterity the task Of nnding
food enough. By strong-srm methods.
~ necessary, 10 support the coming
oundreds Of millions
~ believe In the self sustaining, In.
r1ependent selfroliant nation. sorIcui.
suraIly. industrialiy and politically.
We are then the guarantors OF our own
security and are equal to the task"
SO declared Senator Harding In o
ssissterly address before the Minnesota
State Fair here. In which he revealed
q most profound understanding Of
agriculture, Its problems and Its rela
tioa 10 the farmer anu me consumer In
che cities This speech has been de
scribed as the greatest speech on agri
culture which has ever been made by
o Presidential candidate.
Among other things he said:
"A good many years ago a Chinese
philosopher uttered O profound truth
when he said: The well.being OF a
Deople Is like tree agriculture Is It's
root, manufacture and commerce are
ats branches and It's life; " the root
Is Injured the leaves fall, the branches
break and the tree dies
Cause for Concern.
TT may seem strange to many GOOD
neople that at this particular time any
pne should quote this saying OF n wise
old Chinese. Never IN all our history
have prices Of farm products ruled
20 high, measured 10 dollars, as during
che past four years Farm lind in the
yrcn' surplus producing stntcs has nd
canced to unheard OF prices, with
every Indication that, but for the tight
money conditions, II would 20 sin
higher, Apparently the farmers OF the
land are enjoying unprecedented pros
rerity. Why then. even by impllca.
ZION, suggest that something may he
-'-dsyong with our agriculture, and that
tho trouble may be communica ted 10
sur manufactures and commercep PEG.
pie In the cities are disposed TO think
that II there Is anything wrong II is
In the cities where food Is selling at
such high prices, and not In the coun.
ery where the food IL produced But
with farm and city students OF national
problems see In the present agrlcul'
fHpi situation certain conditions
~fdch give cause for real concern to
every lover OF his country"
lie then referred In most Interest.
dng way to the development OF the
Great central west and sketched briefly
me SeIuenent OF the grea' central vat
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ellie. ort ~ N And great cit,es va
~ huiId ,nt oniv in ,ha RATED
S,otes nm, across tho seoa"
Ue ,noke ~ mo hard condition.,
which came upop the farmers Of the
.,,ntral ives, M a resuI, NJ their aver.
,rroductIon and then NJ Tho gradual
], nrovemcn, which begon ahont ,ooa
when IN. Increased popuIatIon In tina
G.. h.rap 10 catch I'M with farm nro.
dnctIon. and how this Increased 40.
,nnnd for food was accelerated by the
gent World War.
sSprnking of the mart played BY the
Iurn,I during the war. he said:
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