The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-01

. mind OF America.
"You cannot find such wonderfully
inspired thoughts as that emanating from
the crowded, corgested districts OF tene,
ment quarters This is the inspiration
and the dream of the man who lived out
doors. who co-opcrated with his neighbor,
who was not elboWed about and cmbar
raised by people jostiing him about. He
thought along the lines OF the posterity
and the farmers of AmeriCa-nincty-hv
per cent OF the people living in America
At that time were farmers. They made
possible this Republic Of the United States
Of America.
The Farmers Part.
They fought the wars. The menu
mcnts in Lexington and Concord, dedi-
Gated to the memory OF those who fought,
are statues OF stalwart. husky farm boys.
Washington, Monroe, Jefferson and John
!iarcoCl. lived on the farm. John Han
cock lived on the farm and was the head
OF the Supreme Court: he was truly
farmer Our Constitution is purely the
contribution OF the farmers mind.
After launching the Ship OF State one
thing happened which possibly changed
the entire trend and thought of the
I nited StatCs-the discovery of the steam
engine. which made possible central fac
tories in central points, and then there
came the controversies OF the man who
owned th.. machine and the man who
operated the machine. and the contro-
versv has continued between the man
who owned the machine and the man who
operated the machine until the problems
Of capital and labor have been solved far
in advance OF those Of agriculture.
. ,,F. ,r,r1,.,L
turc facing us since the Revolutionary
War. but instead OF solving them and
fighting them out and occupying the CEN
ter of the stage as has labor and capital,
agriculture has gradually rctreatcd from
those problems. If the agrCulturist has
had an acute problem in Kentucky. he
rrtreatcd to Ohio, and the expansive ter
ritory offered to the people OF America
has afforded relief TO the agriCuturist i'll
these economic problems and has delayed
the solution OF these problems possibly IS
Years. The capital invested in agriCul
ture is 50 strong that if the farmers should
sell out. they could buy with that money
in hand all OF the railroads of the United
States, all Of the manufacturing plants.
and then the next IS biggest industries Of
the United States. That is merely repre-
senting the capital invested.
A Washington Conference.
eve had conference last April in
WASHINGTON our Executive Commit
tee of the American Farm Bureau FEEDER
ation-and we invited TO this conference
representatives from every state in the
| mon, leading agriculturists, ilnanCers.
and We asked them questions. What is
the difficulty with agriculture in your part
of the country? And they brought in va
rious answers as to their difficulties that
were affecting agriculture in that part of
the country. and we. after a careful analv-
SIS, were able to group them under praC-
ticallv four ads-transportdtion diff
Guilty, a financial difficulty, marketing
difficulty, and i tax or tariff difficulty
Allied then and closely identified with
those were the various groups under
which YOU could subdividc those heads,
but those were the chief problems.
What do you consider is necessary in
legislative way to correct these difficult
ties3 They outlined a program then to
be presented at Congress in this last
session. The Agricultural Bloc came
into being.
The Distribution Cost.
an dining with Secretary Wallace and
Mr.. Hoover, and two or three more mem
bers OF that like standing, this point was
brought up for discussion. Under our
present methods of transportation today,
the center of production OF the United
States is about at st. Louis, Missouri; the
center of consumption is near Philadei-
phia in Pennsylvania. Under our pres
ent methods o. distribution It costs more
to take food assembled at St. Louis to
Philadelphia than it does to 60 down to
Argentine Republic or New Zealand and
deliver that same amount of food TO
Philadelphia.
There are tremendous responsibilities
placed upon the people of the United
States; not agriculturists alone, but every
body identified with agriculture is inter
ested in the correct solution of these
problems, and there never was time in
the civilization OF society where there were
more people looking towards the United
States for the standard by which they
shall standardize their type of civiliza-
ton at this time When look over this
whole country with that view, it seems
TO me there never was call so great as
that upon the people of America today
to act in a cooperative, friendly, patri-
otto spirit to solve sons of these problems
The Farm Bureau has undertaken to
solve these problems for farmers as a
class 1t is the farmer organized. And
organized, he can do through lis organ
ization, the Farm Bureau, what, if he at
tempted singly, would result in miser
able failure.
A pair of mems shoes weighs three
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