, 1922-12-27
Some Mise -,Fumcrs.' -

newspaper correspondents in
~ Washington who are in -the know" stated
at the time oI the announcement Clemenceau was
10 address the American Farm Bureau Federation
that the extra speech had been arranged by some OF
those IN close touch with his trip TO America for
tue purpose OF attempting to break down the re-
sistence OF the 3lIduie west to the cancellation of
iortIgn loans ana the entrance OF the United
States into European politics.
II Is understood that the meeting was arranged
by MI. Bernard Baruch and Air. Gray silver. ar.
Baruch, as everyone knows, was one of the most
influential, If not the most influential, member OF
President Wilson's unofficial cabinet, and is an
aggressive exponent OF the policy OF the United
States entering into European affairs. Mr.. Ba-
ruch and Colonel l.. NJ. House, who probably was
the only Democrat who ranked Mr.. Baruch in
President Wilson's confidence, we're the sponsors
of Clemeneeau's trip to the United States. Mr..
Baruch has also been a very liberal contributor
to the Democratic National Committees campaign
fund and is understood 10 be playing avery large
but adroit part in the 1924 campaign preliminaries.
Mr.. Silver is a prominent democrat from West
virginia whose name has been mentioned in con-
nection with the Democratic nomination for either
the Presidency or Vice Presidency in 1924 in the
belief that he could swing the farm vote because of
his connection with the American Farm Bureau
+ ederaton IN the capacity of Its legislative agent
at Washington.
Both Mr. Baruch and Clemenceau told those at
the, American Farm Bureau Federation meeting
that the farmers present plight is due TO the "isola,
ton" of the United States IRON European affairs.
Mr.. Baruch made an address to the meeting i'm.
mediately preceding the address by Clemenceau in
which he stated that the need of the farmer today
II Il Observation-Disclosures OF Ms Foreign markets and
that as a precedent to this the United States must
change its international policy. Clemenceau evi.
IDENTIFY had been coached along the same lines for
he made the allegation that the prosperity of the
American farmer depended upon his interest in
foreign affairs and that he has lost the foreign
markets because the United States is not partici-
pating in foreign affairs.
The argument is now being stressed in all Dem.
iocratic newspapers and Democratic publicity. Take
for example an editorial in the New York World
of December 10 from which the following is quoted:
THE first cause of the low price of farm prod
ucts is due TO the fact that Europe cannot buy as
she did. About . per cent of our agricultural pro
ducts is sold abroad. If it cannot be sold abroad
it remains in this country as n surplus and pulls
down the domestic price. This is just what has
happened in the last two years. . . = The
western farmer sells in the world market. His
prices are fixed in the world market and if the
world market is suddenly unable to buy q collapse
in farm prices is inevitable"
These statements are not true. They are In alb
solute disregard of the record of the United States
Bureau of Foreign Commerce. This record shows
that instead of the American farmer losing the Eu.
ropean markets in the last two years he has export
ed moro products during the last two years than
any period in American history.
OF some products, such as grain, the exports of
the last two years have been from two to five times
greater than any previous period in American his
tory.
In brief, the American farmer has not lost his
talking. about a "re-establishment" of them. That
the so-called Isolation of the United States since
the war has not hurt the American farmer is plain
ly evident in the fact that never before has he en-
Joyed such a foreign market as he has during this
period.