New Britain herald., 1924-08-30
DAWES TALKS ON
 FARM PROBLEMS
Advocates Common Sense in
 Dealing With Situation
EE The A..sel.lsa Rrssa


 serious economic question AoA eon'
 fronting the United states, charles
 c. Dawes. republican candidate for
 vice. president. in an address hsre
 lasl night presented an explanation
 Of the purpose Of lhe pressni ad-
 minlslTslion ia The contemplated apr
 peinlmsnl Of an agFlellluIai eolAr
 mission.
 We make but one pEomise-thal the republican party utilizing the
 best minds, and those by training
 best fittsd for the task. Niil bend
 as every energy to the study of anr
 agricultural problem 10 the end that
 through legislation or other means,
 lts solution may be accomplished,
 Mir. Dawes asserted, Whoever
 promises more than this is entering Into a contract which cannot be flled,"
 The republican nominee devoted the major portion of his address de- liysred here in the heart of the agricultural middle west. 10 the agricultural question, taking np the causes for the recent depression 10 farm prices, tho remedies deeom- mended and the prospects for tho future,
 Need for the appointment Of 'an impartial. nonpnrtisan competent commission under economic guid- anee" is imperative. Mir Dawes said. adding that the recent Improve a,, .t.. A ae.i.Ultnpal aitnatinn must not be taken as evidence that the farmers problem has worked out its own solution"
 The problem 10 be solved. he as- serted, resolved itself into n question of finding how equality m earning capacity can be secured between agriculture and industry" This problem. he added. arose primarily from conditions resulting from the world war and foremost among the causes responsible, he declared. was unregulated production. Figures were cited to show the increase in acreage over pre-war years, atten- ton was called to the increase in taxes, the possibilities of extension of cooperative marketing were dis cussed, and Mir. Dawes then launch- | ed into an explanation of the agri- cultural commission proposal.
 "The mere fact that it is not now !. possible to consider this question | when the industry is not in the trough of a terrible depression, as il was sixty days ago, has its great , advantages" he declared. Tt re- , moves that obstacle to the gaining | of perspective which immersion in immediate crises always involves. In fact, there never was better op- portunity presented for the proper consideration of constructive meas nres relative to an industry than eX- ists at present when R terrible ex- perience, with its lessons, is so re- cent and the demonstration of the ultimate effects of economic law is at the same time before our eyes.
 Tt is, however. one of the funda- mental chara cteristics of human na- { ture to be much more concerned with getting out of trouble than. when once out of it, to keep from getting in again. This we must , guard against, or the opportunity may be lost.
 "The position outlined by the pro- ponents of agricultural relief is evil dence that they regard properly the protective tariff and restricted im- migration more us a moral i,stifica- ton of the demands for agricultural ! relief than as the cause of the-re- |, cent depression.
 Protected Market.
 This is natural. for In the ten year pre-war period, the surplus of :. the farmers products, as at present :, was sold in the world market and he bought in a protected market.
 "Our policy of protection in no V way eliminates the operation of the law of supply and demand within our own borders, but simply limits r supply from abroad below a certain price level determined by the i'm port duty. T
 That the protective tariff was somewhat lower then than that now !" in existence was because it was suf firient to give labor and manufac- /, turing their American market At c that time, (before the war; the a manufacturing costs of production f in Germany had not been lcssened S by the enormous decrease in the wages of labor there. caused by the degradation of the mark. 1nflata- ton in other European currencies had not then lessened other labor costs in Europe. The lower tariff then prevented ruinous foreign com- II petition as the Tordney tariff does now.
 "As to restricted immigration u considering the two periods of be- \, n fore the war and since the war. the difference in the number of immi- e e grants is not yet such as to be u real factor in the difference in labor costs. Other reasons have operated there, including the proper organi- '' ration of labor for its own protec- tin.
 Fair consideration of all ele- :. ments in the situation leads on to ' the conclusion that the great under " lying cause for the recent depres- II sion in agriculture has been the con " ditions resulting from the world s' war. P "The recent situation in the q American agricultural industry coz II sidered by itself. is somewhat ana osous to the European situation in . industry at the inception of the = work of the expert committe on re- IT parations. So great was the neces- ,ity for settlement with Europe fac ne the abyss that almost any plan ipon which the expert committee ,ourd have unanimously agreed night have been temporarily ac-