Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-11
FAIR deal FOR
FARMER-COOLIDGE
Put Farms on Business Basis
and Prosperity Will Fol
low, Says President.

Chicago.-Two plain and practical
business messages were delivered by
President Coolidge on his visit to Chi
cago.
In the first address before the Chi
cage Commercial club at the Drake
hotel he pointed to the necessity or
elevating agriculture to the standard
of other business that it might enjoy
relatively the same prosperity. he
also called attention to the necessity
Of cooperating with other nations that
they might enjoy the same economic
standards that America has been able
tO9preserve in the interest Of secured
prosperity and peace.
Before gathering at the Stock
Yards inn, where he was the guest OF
officers and directors of the Interna-
tional Live Stock exposition, the Pres
ident paid a high tribute to the farm
er. declaring that his experience with
them was that they represented
class that sought only fair deal; dld
not want or demand special treatment
and class favoritism. The business
of farming. he said, had become q
profoundly skillful profession.
In regard to the farmers ideals as
to legislation, the President said:
There is altogether too much dis
position in some quarters to assume
that the farmer is peculiarly given TO
wild ideas and unsound notions about
business finance and economics. On
the one hand, every distinct test In
these respects has resulted in an over
whelming verdict for the farmers IN
favor of sanity, soundness, modera-
ton, sense and reason in dealing with
all their problems.
Nobody is going to advance his
own interests by playing upon the pre-
sumption of the farmers ignorance,
or selfishness, or his incapacity to
think accurately. The visionary and
the demagogue invariably discover
that the farmer does not want their
unsound proposals or panaceas. He
does not want special treatment and
class favoritism. He wants fair
show, and when he gets it he can be
relied upon to take good care of him
self and to contribute substantially
toward taking care of the rest of u.s..
Economy, cooperation, fairer taxes
and proper government aid were i'm
portant subjects discussed by the
President and declared by him to be
the means of agricultural prosperity
s'The principle of cooperation in pro-
ducing, financing, buying and market
ing must be encouraged to the utmost
practicable development" he said.
1--WE must help the farmer to re-
duce his taxes, broaden his foreign
market and keep freight rates as low
as possible while keeping the rail-
roads efficient. This should be sup
plemented by the development of
navigation in the Mississippi valley
and in the st. Lawrence river.
II can think Of nothing that will
surely help the farmer as much as
economy-eco in local and ma
tional governments. These remedies
have been efficient at last. What we
want now is the assurance Of stability
and continuing prosperity"
The government must aid generous
ly in developing a national agricul-
turaI policy on broadly constructive
lines, the President declared 1T will
support any sound program to release
the farmer from the individualistic
competitive conditions under which
agriculture has been conducted" he
said. 1T must encourage orderly and
centralized marketing as a substitute
for the haphazard and wasteful distri-
button methods of the past