The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-21

Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. 20.--"The
agricultural problem should be set
tied at the coming short session of
congress and determined once for all
whether the farmers are to be made
dependents of the government or
whether they are to control their own
business as independent citizens of
the United States" said b. F. Yoak-
um, railway president, in his address
before the Hartford Get Together
club here, in support Of the Curtis
Aswell bill as against the McNary-
Haugen bill.
"In point Of fact" continued Mr..
Yoakum, the whole battle front rests
troll or farmer control. The McNary-
Haugen bill advocates government
control and The Curtis.Aswell add
vocates farmer control in the dis
tribution and marketing Of farm pro-
ducts.
"Those Of us who haze seen the
utter inadcquacy of McNary- Haugcn-
ism MS a remedy for, agriculturc's
ills have never yielded our determine
ton to avert the National calamity
that would overwhelm US should the
persistent endcavors of this short
sighted school Of political economists
be successful in fastening their ideas
upon the Republic in statute based
in essence upon the belief that the
American farmer is incapable of con-
Quoting his own business National
Commodity organisations would en-
able farmers to manage their busi-
ness just rs successfully as men en-
gagged in banking, manufacturing,
labor organizations or other lines Of
business and combines.
Farmers Becoming Suspicious
"Let me give you warning that, be-
cause the American farmer has been
unable to get what you properly call
Il square deal, he is fast coming to
the conclusion that ne 10 victim q
injustice. All-know what that feeling
means to the orderly progress Of the
country. a feeling of injustice at the
hands Of the government breeds So
cialism and Communism.
"People are patient with their gov
eminent for a long time--they are
patient to the very point Of suffer-
ing, in the full belief that their gov
justice, but when they discover that
they are not getting from their gov.
eminent square deal they grow
bitter.
Therefore, those Of us who are
pleading for justice to the American
farmers arc, in reality, pleading for
the undisturbcd peace and progress
of democracy, upon which our gov.
eminent was founded.
Farmers Capsule Of Handbag Own
Business
Farmers, under National Commod-
81 ~ A n no h a
as bankers, manufacturers and mer-
chants in the control and manage
ment of their business, of which they
are the sole owners. Why, then
should not the government treat the
farmers as such? They are neither
bcggars nor morons. Yet the gov
eminent unjustly insists on treat
ing them as if they were one or both
Every suggestion to accord to the
farmers the same privileges that are
accorded every other business man is
sure to be met by Congress with the
insistent demand that the government
shall relieve the farmers Of directing
their own marketing operations and
that they should be supplied with
money from the Treasury Of the Uni
ted States under the control Of poll
teal federal board.
1.-THE Treasury is merely a deposit
DRY Of the taxes paid by all citizens
without distinction Of class or elem
cnt. Yet there is q school of students
of our aggravating agricultural prob
lens who can see no other solution
than through an appropriation bill
by Congress of millions Of money that
belongs to all the people, with the
necessary provisions for politicians
to participate in the expenditure of
these millions. If the government
finds it cxpedient on good and suffi-
cient collateral to make direct loans
to farm comm odity organizations on
business principles, the same as it
has already loaned hundreds of mil
| lions of dollars to other corporations,
no. objection could be raised.
The Curtis.Aswell Bill
1.-THE Curtis,Aswell bill makes no
threats to break down manufacturing
industries. That bill presents sane
rational. practical programme-one
away the timbcrs and other wrcckage