The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
Flu. URGES SAVING
Convention to Slap at Nom
Essential Government Boards.
To Ask Pledge of Support of
Plan From Candidates.

The most rigid economy in govern
ment, the refusal of all Farmers
Union members to vote for any can
didate for public office who has not
pledged himself to reduction of taxes
and retrenchment in public expendi-
lures, is the keynote of the report of
the committee on legislation and reso-
lutions, which will be made late this
afternoon to the national convention.
John Tromble, of Beloit, Kan, state
vice president of the Farmers Union,
is chairman of the committee on leg
islation, and the other members are:
J. NJ. Collins, Colorado; W. NJ. Hays,
Kansas; A. L. Ulstrom. Nebraska, and
George L. Sands, Arkansas.
Slap at Government Boards.
The legislation committee, in its re-
port. takes a wicked swipe at .non-es-
sential government officials, boards
and bureaus, recommending that they
all be abolished. The report also is
against the inauguration of expert
mental and costly highway projects
THE burdens of state, local and
highway taxes are growing so rapidly
that their charges threaten the con-
fiscation of farms and homes" the re-
port says. I'VE urge that our state
and local unions not only oppose any
further increase in such taxes, but
eXtert their whole strength to abolish
unnecessary offices, Ooar0s and com
missions, and the initiation of expert
mental and costly highway projects
This can be done only by controlling
the taxing bodies, and we therefore, ad-
wise that members of the Farmers
Union, vote for no candidate for
county tax boards, for state legiSla-
lures, or for congress. who is not
definitely pledged to a reduction of
taxation and retrenchment in the use
of public funds"
To Revise Federal Reserve System.
The report demands that all Fed
eral Reserve banks be required, by
act, 10 accept farm paper running for
six months to one year, for redis-
counts, and an amendment to the
Federal Farm act authorizing loans to
run from one to three years. Contin-
uing its reference to the federal re-
serve board, the committee demands
an equitable, pro rata representation
| of agriculture on the governing
boards of the federal reserve banking
system"
The report demands the defeat of
| section No. 402 of the Fordney tariff
| bill, known as the American valuation
| plan, and the defeat of house joint
resolution No. 1873, now pending in the
calendar of the senate, which places a
| 80 per cent tariff upon American
made agricultural implements which
were shipped to France during the
war and which the committee claims
could be returned to the United States
+ and purchased by American farmers
at one-half the present wholesale
prices.
Endorse Ford Plan.
The report endorses the offer of
| Henry Ford to purchase the Muscle
Shoals nitrate plant of the govern
ment and urges that the offer be ac-
cepted.
! The i'll feeling between the Farmer
union and the American Farm Bureau
federation crops out in the report
which demands the absolute separa-
ton of the Farm Bureau federation
! from the agricultural colleges, the
agricultural extension service and the
| department of agriculture of the fed
eral government. and protests against
| the use of the federal or state funds
in the interest of the American Farm
| Bureau federation or any other purely
private association or organizatio
| The report closes with an expression
| of appreciation to the people of To-
| peka and of Kansas for their hospital
| ity extended to the convention, its Of
| ficers and delegates. and Especially
for the generous, fair and helpful re-
ports of the convention that have ap-
| peared in the Topeka newspapers"
| The report was to have been made
| this morning, but action on the pro-
posed organization of a woman's auxil-
| larry delayed its submission.