The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-19
WALLACE kST0NISHED
AT EAST'S CRITICISM
TO farmers RELIEF
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.-Speaklng3
in behalf of the agricultural interests
of the country Henry C. Wallace. sec
rotary of agriculture, has expressed
his establishment that in the industrial
states of the east the charge of class
legislation" should be raised against
recent efforts at relief for the farmers
by congressional action.
Recent agricultural legislation has
been directed along three general lines
first, improved credit facilities; sec
ond. permissive enactments which will
encourage the farmer himself to i'm
prove methods of marketing farm !
crops; third. assurance of free, open /
and competitive markets for crops and |
livestock through the exercise of rea- |
sonable government supervision over
market agencies.
THAT anyone should be disposed to !
regard such legislation as of the ma !
ture of class legislation is surprising,
said Secretary Wallace. 1T is not in
any sense class legislation. It's pri-
mary purpose is to maintain agricul-
tural production that the people may
be fed.
ITO do this, it is imperative that the
farmer be helped to tide over this per-
iod of financial stress without being
compelled to sacrifice his land, his
livestock or his farming equipment.
THAT is even more important to
the consuming public than to the far
mer, both because of the need of food
at reasonable prices and because the
farmer must be restored if we are to-
have a prosperous, industrial life and
find work again for the millions of I'M
employed. Surely the logic of such
reasoning should not be questioned in
Industrial states. The fact that
40 per cent of our people live in the
open country and not only furnish
the food for the nation but constitute
the largest home market for our man
ufacturers should ever be kept in
mind. Forty per cent of the whole is
somewhat more than a group"
Warns Industrial East.
Secretary Wallace also warns the
industrial east that it may feel the
need of a sympathetic and thoroughly
efficient agriculture sooner than is re-
allied. ...
The billions of dollars which this
country has loaned TO Europe must be
paid not in gold but in goods which
compete with our own manufacturers
and which are produced at cost
far below the American cost standard,
the secretary of agriculture said.
ITO meet such competition he
said, "our own people must have the
cheapest possible food. The FARMERS
place in industrial enterprise thus De
comes increasingly important"
Mr.. Wallace also emphasizes the
fact that the rapidity of the industrial
growth in this country points TO the
approaching need of materially III
creasing form production. He sees
TWO ways in which enlarged produc-
ton may be brought about. He points
to the fact that there are still acres
of land which may be brought under
the pillow. not easily or cheaply, but as
need may require and prices JUSTIFY.
and he SAYS. larger yields may be
had from the lands already under cul
tivation by the practice of more IN
tensive methods
Must Reduce Costs.
I'm either case, the secretary
warns. the consumer can not nope
to buy food as cheaply in the future
as in the past. unless there De large
reductions in the cost Vi rpiou eNitiS
that food, and when say costs OF pro
duction. | mean also costs oil market
ing. for production and marketing are
inseparable. In its own interests
therefore, and for its own benetlt, me
consuming public must aid IN maklhg
avaiIab1e 10 the farmer every facility
and business device which may help
hin, in reducing production costs
secretary
agriculture. recently called attention
10 the fact that business failures n
crease on an average of SO per cent
during periods when farmers suher
from partial crop failure or periods CT
.,,rd,,I,, low nrices" for their products