The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
WHAT PROGRESSVES
SAY ABOUT COOL
DCE'S MESSAGE
INDEPENDENT SENATORS CRI-
TICIZE SHARPLY INEFFEC-
TIVENESS OF PRESIDENTS OF
FERING.

Sen. Lynn J. Frazier, independent
Republican, North Dakota: The Pres
ident's message is Of the kind | eX-
pected him to deliver. The part of it
in which I am particularly interested
is the section dealing with agricul-
ture, in which he admits there is ac-
tual distress among the farmers, and
that in the exchange of their pro-
ducts for their wants the ratio is very
much against the farmers.
He refers to the farmer as "a pub
lie necessity" whether contemptously
or not l do not know That is the
same attitude taken by bankers, poll
ticians and spectators in fc,,7u nro-
ducts. rzv~p- 49, IS II :
4ue president says, "every sound
remedy that can be devised should be
applied for the relief of the farm
efs, but proceeds no further except to
point out the need of disposing of the
surplus wheat held by grain gamblers
and corporations and suggests au-
thority be given the War Finance Cor
poration to grant "the most liberal
terms of payment"
Sen. Magnus Johnson, Farmer-La-
! Dor, Minnesota: | am keenly disap-
| pointed in the message. | had hoped
/ the President would offer some prac-
teal method of relief for agriculture,
! but | failed to discover anything of
a practical nature. What the farmer
needs is help such as the railroads
I got in 1920. The Esch-Cummins law
! is for the railways what price-fiXing
would be fer the farmers. The Presi-
/ dent also opposed the excess profits
/ tax indicating that his opposition is
/ based on objections to our taxes in
I peace time. This is illogical.
Sen. Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-La-
Dor, Minnesota: | am interested in
agriculture. The wheat is out Of the
farmers hands; spectators have it
The President suggests grain gamb-
lers' relief bill be passed by Congress
i to pay these gamblers a profit on then
gambling His fine talk about doing
something for the farm will not foo
the farmers of the west. l am inter
ested in what he said about the Goa
situation. He has proposed, in effect
to let the hold-up men reform. theil
methods as to future hold-ups.
I Sen. Burton X. Wheeler, progress
4 sive Democrat, Montana: All in all,
consider the message d complete sur
render to Wall Street and the big
interests. The Republican NatiOna
Committee should have no trouble il
raising ten to twenty million dollars
for ther 1924 campaign.
regret exceedingly that this mes
sage carries with it no hope to thu
people of the west, nor to the com
mon masses anywhere in the cOun
try.
With reference to the farmers, h
says he is against. price fixing, h
Y offers no plan to Relieve them, bu
points with pride to what the Repub
lican tariff has done to them. He ha!
a peculiar idea of things, for h
points Nitlr~pride to a thing that hai
meant ruiRatioup and suffering to tn
people of the west, Where the suffer
ing, in many instances is. as Sharp ant
I general as that of Central Europe.
Sen. G. G.. Hill, progressive Demo
-crat, Washington: The message place
!, the President at the head of TIL
standpat, reactionary forces of tn
country. Progressives must look else
where for leadership.
Sen. E. F. Laid, in a statement il
the Minnesota Daily Star, declare
that the message carries nothing new