The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-02
The Farm and Farmer
By WILLIAM r. sANaoRN

If you are working man and are
out of job, don't think for moment
that farmers, as a class. are careless
of what happens to you. and to the
millions like you who are now seeking
work. The farmer Is keenly and
sympathetically alive to all the prob
lens and needs of tn idle hosts. If
the farmer owns anything, and II his
barn and cellar are filled with things
which assure a winter of plenty, and
all tho home comforts, be sure that
all these things came through the
hardest kind of work. The farmer
toll is not governed by union hours,
but by necessity and season, and ac-
cording to his strength to complete
mis- daily tasks The farmer knows
what it means to earn his bread in
the sweat of his brow.
This does not mean that the farmer
endorses unreasonable demands on
the part of labor leaders, the work
of strike agitators, or the crooked &C
tons of the often too numerous walk
ing delegates and factional represent
atives. Each of these have played a
part in forcing the H. G. L., from
which we have suffered and because
of which the decline in prices came
so suddenly and with such disastrous
effect No single class or interest re-
mains untouched, and surely the farm
er has borne, and is bearing his full
share of the losses caused by the
tumbling in values.
Humane and Patriotic.
Like every good citizen. the Amer
lean farmer is both humane and pa
f,.;o Of fa tho IA ~
err Is also aware that the impovershing
of any large class of our people means
reduced consumption of farm products
at falling prices; the consequent slow
ing down of trade generally, with
the resulting national depression and
loss. No man is more anxious to pre-
vent such conditions than is the
thoughtful farmer, nor will any man
make a more cheerful sacrifice for the
general welfare than he. The great
mass of our truly American farmers,
the owners and tillers Of the soil, is
the ciliefest bulwark of this govern
ment, of which bulwark the home buy
ing and home loving citizen in every
walk of life, forms part. Admittedly,
too, there are millions of others who
have found it impossible to buy homes.
but in the last analysis, the men who
own America are the men who can
most surely be counted on to sustain
American institutions and to main
tain the cardinal features of our gov
eminent, should these, from any cause,
be endangered.
Affects Tariff Measure.
The fact that there are really mil
lions of men and women out of en-
ployment in this country just now, is
one of the reasons for the strenuous
fight confronting emergency tariff
legislation. Those opposed point out
that this bill is primarialy designed
to advance the prices of farm pro
ducts, which means higher food They
maintain that this increase in the
cost of food at a time of a decline
in wages and increasing unemploy-
ment might form a disastrous combi-
nation.
Senator Kenyon. of Iowa, chairman
of the, senate labor committee, has
wired the mayors of our principal cit
les, asking them to supply informa-
! ton as to the members unemployed,
and to suggest remedial legislation.
He has also introduced a resolution
calling upon the president to take
measures to push work on all public
works already authorized" This
would not only give employment to
large numbers directly, but also in
directly to additional men in the fur
nishing of the large amount of ma
teriaIs required.
According to the department of la
Dor survey, there are approximately
9 5f10 lf0 perSOnS ont IF work - The