The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-06-29

that there can be no economy when
this important link Of transportation
is not cared for.
/ repeat, / mertiog those well-hown
instances to remind members that
these wide differences Of opinion in
dictate a misunderstanding between
representative of the different Sec
lions Of our country.
do not believe that this feeling
should continue to exist in the consi-
deration of measures which are ab-
solutely national in character. The
farmers are not asking for unreason-
able legislation. A man who runs
farm Is a capitalist, an employer,
laborer, a producer and a consumer.
Farmers include all classes, and theS
have sympathetic ties with all classes,
and they are naturally conservative.
Every student of history knows that
in every crisis, when there is unrest
and danger of revolution in the big
centers, it is to the country that we
look for calm and safety, 1t is wrong
for representatives to stand upon this
floor and charge US with advocating
class legislation,
Agriculture is the foundation upon
which all other industries are based.
It produces the cotton and wool to
clothe the world, the meat and bread
to feed all the people. Going and COM
ing, it provides the bulk of transporta-
ton. Farm production has been the
chief factor in our foreign trade and
for paying our debts abroad. Farmers
are the buyers of a larger percentage
of American manufactured goods than
any other classes. Gentlemen OF the
house, if there is any legislation which
is national in character, which is for
the benefit Of the whole American pee
pie, without special preference or 7spe
cial aid or special benefit to any, it Is
that which promotes agricultural con
ditions.
George Washington, the father d
our country, impressed upon our PEG
pie the necessity of developing agri
culture as a foundation for our future
development and prosperity.
Presiding Harding, in an address
delivery recently, said:
eve will do well to keep in mind
at this time the fundamental import
ance of agriculture, and in every pos
sible way insure justice to it. We are
confronted by the need to place our
own house in order, and no, more i'm
portant feature Of that effort can be
visioned than to place our agricultural
Industry on a sound basis and provide
machinery and facilities for financing
and distributing crops, if we do this
we merely will be providing the farm
er with facilities similar to those en-
joyed by the business communities
I generally"
Let me call your attention, especial
ly you members frolu The nanufactur
ing centers and large cities Ct tht
country, to what happened in Europe
following the world var. When Aus
tria-Hungary was disnlem3erej, thu
agricultural part was taken away
from what Is now Austria In cthel
words, that nation was left IKE {
stomach without arms, head, or legs :
/ a consumer unable to produce; a popu
lation that was wholly urban. With
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out agriculture their manufacturer;
industries ceased to operate: there
was no commerce and no employment
and soon the representatives OF tina
country, once great and prosperous
we're compelled to 60 on Bonded knee
to the allies and admit that they eoult
no longer maintain themselves as {
country, and ask tina THEY be takel