Evening star., 1924-08-12

soul-destroying drugs. We shall
conserve all the natural resources OF
the country and prevent the hand
or monopoly from closing on them
and on our water powers, 80 that our
children after US shall find this still
fair land to dwell within. And to
the veterans of our wars, especially
to those who were stricken and
wounded in the country's service and
whose confidence has been 20 cruelty
ana corruptly abused. we shall give,
In honor and in honesty, the CRATE
fui care they have 30 Justly earned.
concerning our sentiments toward
labor there is room for neither doubt
nor cavil in the light of our past
history. The right OF labor to an
adequate wage earned under health
ful conditions, the right to organize
IN order to obtain it and the right to
bargain for it collectively, through
agents and representatives of its own
choosing, have been established after
many years OF weary struggle.
Rights Are Cenceaed.
These rights are conceded now by
all fafr-minded men. They must not
be Impaired either by Injunction or by
any other device. The Democratic
party. however. goes a step beyond
this. Its attitude has been we'll de-
scribed As one inspired neither by
difference on the one hand nor by
patronage on the other. but by q sim
cere desire to make labor part OF the
grand council OF the Nation, to con-
cede its patriotism and to recognize
that it's knowledge Of it's own needs
gives 1t right to a voice IN all mat
ters OF government that directly or
peculiarly AFFECT it's own rights. This
attitude has not changed; II will not
change. Democracy in government
and democracy in industry alike de-
mand the free recognition OF the
right of al those who work, in what
ever rank or place. to share in all de-
cisions that affect their welfare.
ITO the farmers OF the United
States also we promise not patronage
but such laws and such administra-
tion OF the laws az will enable them
to prosper In their own right. They
are not mendicants and, fortunately
for all Of US, are williA, to take the
risks that attend their All-important
calling. They are entitled In return
to government genuinely Interested
in their problems and keenly desir-
Gus to serve them to the limit of its
power. They feel today. more severe
ly perhaps than any others. the de.
pressing effect OF discriminatory tax.
alton. Buying In a protected market
and selling In a market open to the
tribute to the profits OF those In other
Industries with no compensating
benefit to themselves.
Sees Turin Asl Useless.
Recent experience has proved. IL
proof were needed, that an effort to
help the farmer BY q tariff on his
pretense. He knows as well as any
economist can tell him that the price
he gets for his surplus crop depends
upon conditions at the place of sale;
and he realizee that his permanent
prosperity depends not upon the de-
crease through crop shortages Of the
quantity he has to sell, but upon the
restoration and expansion of the mar
kets to which his goods must go.
When he faces. as many do today, i'm
pending bankruptcy aid ruin, it Is
small comfort to be told by those who
are SO solicitous to protect other in
dustry from all possible competition
that the farmers salvation lies
wholly with himself.
THE courageous and Intelligent
deflAtion OF credits which the Repub.
lican party promised in fts platform
four years ago would have come
with better grace and have proven
more acceptable ia its results IL there
had been 1t the same time any effort
to narrow instead OF widen the gulf
between the prices which the farmer
receives and those which he is COM
PEELED to pay. and to assist him in
dnding a market for the things he has
to sell.
Attacks sDsseriMfaaxisns.s
1--WE propose to see to 1t that the
Determinations which the tAftn
makes against him shall Be removed:
that his Government BY doing its
share toward = European settlement
shall help to revive and enlarge his
foreign markets. that instead OF lip
service to the principle OF cooper
atfve marketing the forces OF the
Government shall be put actively at
work to lend assistance to these en-
deavors; that the farmer shall be sup
piled not only with information or
problems of production bat with IN.
formation such as the dealer now 70.
| eeives concerning the probable m
and demand for his pfoduct, % thA,
| he may be enabled to think as in
l telligently as the dealer in terms OF
| consumption and demand And that IN
times when general and widespread
| distress has overtaken him every
| power which, the Government esSoys
| under the Constitutioo SHAH be ex.
erted In his aid.
"He il entitled, too, to demand m
| adequate service Of transportation al
reasonable rates. In spite Of the fall
| ures and shortcomtngs OF existing
| laws, this is an ideal which cannot
believe to be beye0d the reach OF NJ.
| tAfnment II the seasonal produc-
| tion Of the farmers crops 10 the pull
/ sation of the nations heart, the rail-.
roAds of the country are the veins a1e
| arteries through which tts Nte-otoo1