Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-27
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FOREIGN POLICY
Samuel NJ. RalstOn Asserts
Right of Farmer to Protect
His Interests
SPEAKS IN

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of former Governor samuel N. Ralston
at a Democratic mass meeting here Sat
urday night.
Mr.. Ralstone pointed out that the very
persons and interests who are so bitter
iu their denunciation Of the farm bloc
fail to say 4 word about past cOmbina-
tons of special interests such as the
steel bloc" the oil bloc" the railroad
bloc and many others which were
formed to control legislation and regular
prices to suit themselves. He said
further that the farmers are thoroughly
justified in their attempts to have a hand
in settling questions which are vital TO
their interests.
BLOC AFFAIRS
DISCUSSED.
In part he said:
" have been hearing a great deal OF
unfaVorable comment about a ceFtalh
bloc now doing team work il Congress.
1t so happens that this particular bloc
represents practically % per cent OF all
&. the people Of this country and really
the biggest single interest in this
country. 1t represents an Industry, in
the absence OF which there could De no
prosperity. Without it, the people would
70 10 the wall. This particular bloc,
now so seyerly critised. represents the
agricultural interests OF this nation-an
interest for whose success all people
should be most profoundly concerned.
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air Of surprise as though they never be-
fore had Witnessed team work In Con
Cress, for other interests. They decry II
rs representing a dangerous tendency in
national affairs. but who is so simple
minded rot 10 recall that special interests
have cC.,.. led. AT times. the legislative
poIiC. OF this nation along far more
dangerous lines than has the farmers
bloc Have the people forgotten the
operations of the iron and steel bloc.
the coal bloc the oil bloc the railroad
bloc and all the kindred 'blOcs, that
have BY tricks and couSpiraCieS con-
trolIed prices and largely absorbed the
wealth of the nation, during the past
forty years, through their encroachments
upon the property rights OF the
bUltifudpS-thp real producers of society!
Has il been forgotten that when these
real producers protested against the out
RACES worked upon them, the finger Of
~corn by the mighty was pointed at
FARMERS NEED
OF TEAM WORK.
L have never stood for class legisla-
ton nor for classes THIS is a Govern
. mcut of the people and not of classes.
While this has been my attitude in the
past. I am coming TO see that the time
IS here when the farmers Of this Ma
ton have got TO do more team work on
q broad scale in their own interests.
than they have done in the past. else
utter ruin awaits them. There is but one
safe course for the farmers now 70 pur-
sue. until they can have righted the
wrongs heaped upon them. and that is
TO take the stand that farmers shall
have q more controlling voice in their
Government thau they have had here
tnfore. They must See TO il that men
with sound visions and right hearts NIL
the offices i'm this country
How radically wrong are conditions
that have made ii more profitable TO
burn corn than il has been 20 pay the
price fixed by the coal bloc for coal fuel.
TTyarv-THnHE Eavr EuaE thar the wisdom Of
the Democratic party, IN cOntendlng thaL
If this country stayed out OF the YER
sailles treaty. it would be fatal to the
influence abroad. and curtall the CONNER
ciaL prospects Of the United States.
Unfortunately. our country elected to
~repUdiate this treaty and 10 turn the
Goverumentn over 20 the RepubIica
party. w+Ch the result that the policies
of this party have plunged the Nation
into the worst panic in all its history.
When the relns Of Government were
given 20 this party, a most wonderful re
construction program had been entered
upon. with. prosperity everywhere in evf-
dence, at the close or the world most
destructive war. but Republican states
manship was not wise enough to handle
successfully the situation. Il has made
AFFAIRS DRIFT UNDER
REPUBLICAN RULE.
This is the opinion OF both Democrats
and Republicans With the country on q
sound basis, when the Republican party
was gwen IDsOA4Ee tuALE0l or the GOV
eminent. things have been permitted to
drift from good 10 bad, and after this
party had been in power Tor more than
q year the Republican press In many sec
tiOnS of the COuntFy does not hesitate to
say that the Republican Congress is the
liability Of the Republican party. Re
publican papers admit Lhat the farmers
are breaking away from their party. and
these papers do not hesitate 20 say that
their party with its Overwhelming Re
publican majOrities in both Houses has
Eummed up the tax revision program:
man-handIed the whole tariff revision
question and made a nause8ting spec
tacIe OF itself IN handling the bonus"
problem
while I am glad farmers are asserting
their power IN the l~Qw-making branch OF
the Government more than they have
heretofore done, they must not allow
themselves 20 make demands on a false
basis. The welfare Of the country as a
whole must ever be the object had in
view in the making OF laws for q Nation.
Any other course will prove unsound and
hurtful.
Much IS now being said in advocacy
OF revising the tariff upward. This
scheme was adopted some years ago, with
the result that the party adopting IL, was
CveVthroWu and severely punished. Such
q policy now would be more severely con
denied than IL then was. This has be
come a creditor Nation, and il must have
access 20 foreign markets. No such Ma
ton can prosper with its avenues leading
our 10 oLheF nations cut or IL a tariff
wall. This is the experience OF history.
and I would adm0nish farmers not to be
,lisled bT the false CRY that they should
join in increasing tariff schedules on all
The people. under the belief that they are
going 20 make themselves money BY do
ing SO.
Certainly our tariff laws should. from
time to time, be revised, but when this
Is done. the revision should be worked
out for the Consideration OF Congress. by
an inteIligently qualified and ~ronparcisan
commission Farmers can AFFORD 10 work
through such q commission. but Il they
associate themselves with certain self
interests in developing a tariff law both
they and the country VIII get the worst
OF 1t. a clas- may become rich through
4 system Of taxation, but a people never
have by imposing taxes on themselves"
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