New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-18
BOOKHART returns,
ATTACKING HARDING.
Back From Europe, He PluneS
Into Politics Again


By The Associated Press.
New York, July Ex-senator Smith
w. Brookhart of Iowa, back from a
weeks survey of agricultural con-
ditions in Europe, declares that the
election to the senate Of Magnus
johnson of Minnesota was warning
to the republican bosses that some
thing was about to happen in the po-
litical situation of the United States
Senator Brookhart, a republican
who was elected with the support OF
| the farmer-labor bloc to the seat pre-
viously held by Senator William s.
Kenyon, in his first public statement
since his return to the United States,
| touched on the presidential situation.
Asserting that he had read three of
the speeches which President Hard
ing has delivered on his tour, Mr..
Brookhart said:
II should think that about three
more speeches like these would elect
Henry Ford by about 100000 ma
jority, If the president is a candidate.
1t Is time the republican party was
looking for a candidate who will fight
FOR the common people and against
Wall street. Someone like Judge
Kenyon should be drafted for this
purpose"
Elsewhere in his statement the
senator declared that the Russian
Soviet government was second in sta
bility only to that of the United
States and that Russia soon would be
making inroads upon the grain mar
kets of this country.
The thing that demands imme-
diate attention in an extra session of
congress is the agricultural situation"
declared Senator Brookhart.
Senator Brookhart is one of the
senators who parted company with
their party leaders on various ques-
tons of foreign and domestic policy
who nevertheless are counted among
those yielding the G. o. P. a NOM
inal majority Of five in the senate.
He disembark ed from the s. S. Presi-
dent Polk in Boston, and arrived in
New York ony this morning. He
will address a small gathering at the
cooperative league house here to-
morrow night.
Referring to his tour during which
he visited Durria and the principal
scountries of Europe, Senator Brook
hart said;
THE whole world is saying that we
are entering upon a new era; great
changes are impending, and new de-
velopments are at hand. But what is
it all to be?
This nebulous talk gets nowhere.
l was looking for something definite
and ! think l found it.
II did not enter a museum, an art
gallery or an antique shop on the
whole, but I did see the living lead
ers Of the common people in nearly
all the countries of Europe. l talked
to the statesmen of this upward
movement, and met the leaders and
active managers of the great CO.
operatives everywhere.
my conclusion is that economic
cooperation upon the simple princi-
the only constructive idea that has
survived the war. 1t is the only
plan that will end the criminal trusts
and combinations in America and give
to the producers and consumers the
just rewards of their labors.
The thing that demands imme-
date attention in an extra session of
congress. is the agricultural situation.
"A good crop is coming all over
Europe including Russia. saw
nearly two thousand miles of it and
notwithstanding the propaganda in
America that they refused to plant.
They have good crops and likely a
large surplus.
The farmers of America need to
know these facts above all others.
When they are known, it is plain that
the Lenroot bill and other legislation
passed at the last session are flimsy
and wholly inadequate for
agricultural needs.
Radio dispatches on my boat back |
said there are prospects for big crops |
in the United States. For 40 years |
the farmers have received less total |
money for their big crops than for |
the little ones. They did the extra |
work I'm harvesting and handling and |
paid the extra freight and for ship |
ping and took less return for il all. |
They are in the same situation /
now, made worse by their own war
deflation and aggravated by railroad |
Every other business sells
its product in a protected home mar
ket and is able to charge the farmer
cost OF production and in many cases
an extra ordinary profit besides. For
example:
During Is years before the war