The Washington times., 1924-08-12

sirous to serve them to the limit
Of its power.
They feel today, more severely
perhaps than any others, the de.
pressing effect Of discriminatory
taxation. Buying In a protected
market and selling in q market
open to the world, they have been
forced to contribute to the profits
Of those in other industries with
mo compensating benefit to them
selves.
Recent experience has proved,
IL proof were needed, that an ef-
fort to help the farmer by a tar.
iff on his products, is the baldest
political false pretense. He knows
as well as any economist can tell
him that the price he gets for his
surplus crop depends upon con-
ditions at the place OF sale; and
he realizes that his permanent
prosperity depends not upon the
decrease through crop shortages
Of the quantity he has to sell, but
upon the restoration and expan.,
sion Of the markets to which his
goods must go.
When he faces, as many do to.
day, impending bankruptcy and
ruin, 1t is small comfort to be
told by those who are 50 solici.
tous to protect other industry
from all possible competition that
the farmers salvation lies wholly
with himself.
The courageous and intelligent
deflatfon Of credits" which. the
Republican party promised in its
platform four years ago, would
have come with better grace and
have proven more acceptable in
its results IL there had been at the
same time any effort to narrow
instead of widen the gulf be-
tween the prices which the farmer
receives and those which ne Is
compelled TO pay, and to assist
MIN In finding. & market for the
things he has to sell.
Farmer and Transport.
We propose to see to 1t that the
determinations which the tariff
makes against him shall be re-
moved: that this Government. by
doing. its share toward 4 European
settlement shall help to revive
and enlarge his foreign markets;
that instead Of lip Beryice to the
principle. Of cooperative market
ing the forces of the Government
shall be put actively at work to
lend assistance to these en-
deavors; that The farmer shall be
supplied not only with information
such as the dealer now receives
for nfo VNVs06tNaA h.
be enabled to think as intelligent.
ly as the dealer in terms of con-
sumption and demand; and that
in times when general and wide.
spread distress has overtaken
him, every power which the Gov
eminent enjoys under the Consti-
tuition shall be exerted in his aid.
He is entitled, too. to demand
an adequate service Of transporta.
ton at reasonable rates. In spite
OF the failures and shortcomings
Of existing laws, this is an ideal
which / cannot believe to be be-
yond the reach Of attainment.
II the seasonal production OF
the farmers crops is the pulsa-
ton of the nations heart, the
railroads Of the country are the
veins and arteries through which
its lifeblood flows. Neither can
hope to function without the
others aid; and it is quite as i'm
portant to the railroads that the
farmer should prosper as it is to
the farmer that the railroads
should be adequately paid for the
service that they render.
Tax Reform Proposed.
Believing that no people are
truly free who. are. unjustly tax.
ed, we promise to the people OF
America not only revision and
reform but a further reduction
in the taxes that weigh them
down and sap the vigor OF their
productive energy. The exorbitant
rates and discriminatory provis-
ions OF the present tariff law
must be wiped out, and in their
place must be written, with fair
ness to all and favors to none,
a statue designed primarily to
raise revenue for the support OF
the Government and framed on
a truly competitive basis.
we nave llO AObLAO AC0A9N ~
ward any legitimate industry;
we purpose no action that WouIo
tear down or destroy. But we
are resolved that the laying ana
collecting Of taxes shall remain
a public and not a private bust.
ness and that monopoly shall find
no section Of the law behind
which to hide itself.
The rates of the income tax
should be further lowered. I'm
necessary taxation is unjust taxa
ton no matter on whom the bur-
den falls.
1 am ready to agree that there
is no right in government to tax
any man beyond its needs solely
because he Is rich; and yet /
stoutly hold that every dictate
of reason and morality supports
the rule that those who derive
from the common effort Of So
ciety greater share Of its earn
ings than their fellows must con-
tribute to the support OF the
State a proportionately larger
share of that which they have
received. Nor will we overlook
the sound distinction which exists
in principle between those in
comes gathered without effort
from invested capital, and those
which are the product Of exer-
ton day by day.
Law Enforcement.
And with reduction, indeed as
a condition precedent to 1t.
there must be economy. in every
part Of the government estab-
nshment. l shall, IL elected, wei.
come the opportunity to support
and strengthen the beginnings
which have been made in the
direction of q national budget
and TO cooperate with Congress
to that end.
We must have, in addition, an