Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-01
EQUAL. RIGHTS FOR
FARMERS PLEDGED
BY JOHN ". DAVIS

Ond statement outlining campaign is
sues, John w. Davis. Democratic
candidate for president declared to-
day that unrest on the part of the
nations farmers will contine until
their voice rs listened to at the White
House and in congress with the same
attention given the voice of the bank
er and industrialist.
The policy of the Democratic par
ty, Mr. Davis said, SIS to readjust
the balance and to put agriculture
where it belongs-on an equality
with industry" The nominee de-
clared in that connection that such
q program would be put into effect
if he was chosen president on
November and given support at the
same time of Democratic house and
senate.
Mr.. Davis asserted that call the
Republican party has to offer to the
farmer is a promise to call a COM
mission and investigate him again, "
while the Democratic party, on the
other hand, has a definite program
by means of which it expects to re-
store to the farmer the economic
equality Of which he has been UNI
justly deprived"
Fair Deal for Farmer
1.-THE outstanding economic prob
lem of the hour" Mr.. Davis said, lis
to make the purchasing power of the
farmers dollar equal to that of the
manufacturers dollar. That is an
other way of saying that there is
no more pressing duty resting upon
the gooVrnment of the United States
than to organize the economic life
of America, so that American citl-
zens can earn on thei roWn farms
living in keeping with America and
its traditions.
"Republican administrations dur
ing the last generation have repre-
scented government by Industrial bloc.
The granting of undue preference
and subsidies to industries by Repub-
lican administrations has forced the
farmers to indulge in an abnormal
struggle to get fair hearing in
congress.
1.-THE farmers of this country are
not mendicants and they are willing
to take the risks that attend their
allimportant calling. But they are
entitled in return to a government
genuinely interested in their prob
le1llS anu heGllly ucSllOuS " oSl VIC
them to the limit of its power
1.-THE farmers feel more severely
than any others the effect of discrim
inatory taxes. The goods which they
sell are in large measure sold in the
markets of the world, but those
which they buy consist largely of
manufactured articles heavily pro
tected behind Republican tariff
e. how
been forced to contribute profits to
other industries with no compensat'
ing benefit to themselves.
Investigated to Death
'"The Republicans agricultural
program is composed of just three
planks. The first is the reminder to
the farmer, that God helps only
those who help themselves. Second
ly, they tell the farmer that cur
tailed production is the remedy
Remedy No. is that we should
have a commission of impartial ex-
perts with economic advisors to con-
slider the agricultural situation and
report.
1.-THE farmers of this country have
been investigated in the last three
years-first by the congress itself,
for six long months; then by an
agricultural conference of experts
called by President Harding, and
then by the department of agrlcul-
ture. And today all that the Repub-
lican party has to offer to the
farmer is a promise to call COM
mission and investigate him again.
s"The Democratic party, on the
other hand, has a definite program
by means of which it expects to re-
store to the farmer the economic
of which he has been un-
Justly deprived. We undertake.:
"To reduce taxation, both direct
and indirect, and by strict economy
to tighten the burdens of govern
ment.
TO revise the tariff-not to free
trade basis, but so that the farmer
and all other classes may buy their
goods in a competitive market.
ITO readiust and lower rail and
water freight rates to make our
markets, both for the buyer and the
seller, national and international in
stead of regional and local.
Cheaper Fertilizer
"To bring about the earliest pos
sible completion of internal water
way systems for transportation and
to develop our water powers for
cheaper fertilizer to use on our
farms.
"To stimulate by every proper gov
ernmental activity the progress of
the cooperative marketing move
ment and to promote the establish
ment of an expert marketing cor
poration or commission in order that
the farmer shall not be at the mercy
of prices for farm products abso-
lutely fixed by the eXportable sur
plus available.
ITO secure by wise and safe meas
ures sufficient banking credits to en-
able every deserving farmer to
finance his own needs.
ITO adopt an international policy
which will so re-establish the eco
nomic structure OF the world as to
create the largest possible export
market for the goods that the farmer
has to sell and thus enable him to
obtain the best possible prices for
that which he produces.
above all things, to maintain
sympathetic and cooperative atti-
tude of mind in governmental action
in all matters concerning the well
fare of the farmer.
THE unrest of the farmer will
continue until his voice is listened