Evening star., 1926-06-20
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A bristling warning to opponents of
the Haugen farm relief measure, de-
claring the farm organizations wanted
the fundamentals of that bill or moth
ing, was issued here last night by
William Hirth Of Columbia, Mo. chair
man of the corn belt committee, who
said both Democrats and Republicans
in Congress who vote against agricul-
ture would have the opportunity to ex-
plain to their constituents in future
elections.
THE cold blooded purpose back of
Secretary Melons recent attack upon
the Haugen bill is to industrialize
America at the expense OF agrlcul-
ture," he said, and If this brings
about a bitter class struggle in a ma.
ton which has always been dedicated
to the principle of equal rights to ali
and special privileges to none. the
blood will not be on the farmers
hands. Mr.. Coolidge was elected upon
a platform which contained solemn
pledge to give agriculture equanty
with other industry and it will not be
the fault of the farm organizations
of the country If they do not conslgn
to private life every Republican mem
ber of Congress who may violate tnat
nledge. And in this hewing TO the
nrofess to be friends Of the farmer
bur VINO upon one pretext or another
vote against the only measure that
promises genuine rellet.
Political Moves Discounted.
I'm the meantime, the apparent
willingness of certain Democratic ieau-
ers to coin the present agonles OF the
farmer into political advantage VIII
avail them nothing. The Democratlc
latform contains a straightforward
shoulder pledge for an export corpora
ton or commission to hanule Ine
surplus problem, and this pledge must
be redeemed before the Democratlc
party will have any claims upon the
farmer. In other words, the old axiom
that he who invokes equity must come
into court with clean hands applles
IN this instance. Furthermore, we de-
sire TO remind these Democratic lead
ers that should the heartless ultl'
matum Of Secretary Mellon drive the
farmers of the country into Nation
wide revolt against the protective syS'
tenn, this does not necessarily mean
that they must seek to accomplish
these ends through the Democratic
marty, for in these premises there Is
more than one road that leads 10
Rome.
"The situation from the standpoint
of both parties was admirably put up
bv Senator Caraway DemocraD,
Arkansas, the other day, when he
said that in the coming showdown in
the Senate the farmers expect prac-
tically every vote from the industrial
States to be cast against them, while,
on the other hand, they expect every
vote from the agricultural States to
be cast for them. And the members
of Congress from an agricultural State
who vote against agriculture in the
darkest hour 1t has ever known will
have an opportunity to explain their
action to the farmers Of their State in
the coming election or at some future
election--for when 1t is ell over, and
regardless of whether we win or lose,
the story of the recent struggle of
agriculture in the Sixty-ninth Congress
will be placed before every farmer
in the United States. with the sugges-
ton that from this time forward they
stand by their friends without the
slightest regard as to whether they
are Democrats or Republicans.
LAS to the constitutional objectors,