Evening star., 1926-05-31
Haugen Bill Defeat Echoes
From All Over the Country

direct subsidies have encountered in
Congress. 1t cannot he seriously urged
that in a republic like ours II Is
proper governmental function to tax
one class in order merely to relieve or
reward another" Comment from the
Springfield Republican Gndependent,
on that phase of the question is that
even agricultural interests in the
East We're in opposition to what was
regarded as a subsidy for the corn
belt II the Western agricultural in
terest as whole should ever reach
the desperate state of the English coal
industry" continues the Republican.
1T is conceivable that radical schemes
OF direct government relief would be
lustlhed as emergency mea sures. but
the future does not appear so dark as
that"
The demand for extreme meas.
ures," says the Duluth Herald lin
dependenO. comes almost entirely
from small part of the country in
the Middle West. including Minnesota.
Iowa. Wisconsin and the Dakotas. II
Is opposed by all the older farming
sections from Kansas and Nebraska.
South and East to the boundaries Of
the Nation As 1t appears to the
Wichita Beacon independent Repub.
lican). III the farmer in Iowa, who ii
Just now planting corn. In given to
believe that the Government will guar.
antee him high price on next Falls
crop. he will increase his acreage.
That means an increase in the sur
plus. The disease is aggravated and
not cured. for the surplus Is lust
what makes the low price of corn"
In expressing the hope that the
proposition has been disposed Of
permanently" the San Antonio Ex-
press independent Democraticy con.
tends lit is hardly conceivable that
In this country the general public
opinion ever would approve so radical
a step In paternalism."
Nevertheless. the Santa Barbara
News independently expects Novem.
Der to bring the echoes from the
roar back home unless all signs fail.
Although opposition to the farmers
plan Is probably sound" the California
paper adds. ut will be difiicult to con.
vince the men who for two genera
tions have been paying tribute to
big business through the protective
tariff that they have been justly
treated"
''The necessity for Government aid
remains" in the Judgment Of the
Youngstown Vindicator Democratic).
which points out that this "is shown
by the depressed condition OF farm
ing In the West for the last fve or
six years" accompanied by the fail.
ure of thOusa nds of hanks, bringing
financial ruin to whole communities
and States" =
Objecting to the Haugen bill par.
ticu!arly as a 'price-fixing. subsidy
and dumping measure" the Chicago
Daily News independently at the same
time draws the conclusion that "the
need OF enlightened discussion and
wise treatment of the problem Of
American agriculture should be recog-
niZed by ALL" and warns that "the
farmers demand for justice and equal
opportunity cannot be ignored, the
farmers problem should be regarded
as the Nations problem. q scientific
solution Of which is essential to the
general welfare" .4,
Significance il seen by the Dayton
Daily News independent Democratic)
in The defeat of Senator Stanfield
of Oregon. on which. It's comment is
that the dissa abstraction of the agrh
culturists was present just az in Illi-
nois' and that aft may give the
pause IL II does not lead
them to activity"