The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-09
2OFAKE
RELIEF Bills
BEFORE SENATE
U. S. Aids Italy But Not
DUN Farmers
Especial to The Daily worksr)

ceiVable nostrum for farm relief is
proposed by senators and congress-
men here except one that will really
aid the farmers. The senate committee
on agriculture and forestry has twenty
bills presented for its consideration
and not one of them approaches a
solution of the farmers problems.
That relief is needed now is plain
to all, and politicians from the agri-
cultural states are almost frantic in
their efforts to palliate the voters
from their home states since their re-
turn to Washington after the holiday
recess. However, their allegiance to
the old parties prevents them taking
independent steps even If they had
brains enough to do so.
Old party politicians are trying to
frame up some sort of performance
that will enable the congressman and
senators from the various states to
present conflicting bills purporting to
relieve the farmers and then have
them all defeated so that fraudulent
records of congressman can be created
to go before the farmers in the coming
congressional elections that will be
held this fall
No Mortgage Cancellation.
While the Coolidge administration
is trying to get senate endorsement of
the Italian debt settlement that re-
suited in a seventy-fve per cent can
collation. of the debt owed by the
despicable Mussolini government,
there is no sign that any senator of
the Coolidge camp or from any other
camp will propose that the debts of
the farmers be cancelled so that they
can get new loans to carry them over
for a time.
The whole fraudulent nature of the
farm relief measures are revealed by
an examination of some of them, show
ing that each author presented his
bill purely for home consumption and
not because he desired to solve the
problem.
Fake Measures.
Chief among these measures are
the ones drafted by Senators William
B. Mckinley (rep., Ill., and Charles l..
McNary rep, Ore.) for cooperative
marketing. Senator Arthur Capper
(rep., Kas.) has similar bill up his
sleeve, and others are forecast in ru-
mors from the senate Office building.
Henrik Shipstead, farmer-laborite of
Minnesota, would have the federal
government place agriculturists in the
same general category as the railroads
and shipping, with guaranteed returns
Mr.. Capper has a forestry conserva-
ton and a cooperative purchasing act,
as well as an amendment similar to
one contained in Mr.. McKinley's bill
to pertain to farm loans. Joseph E.
Ransdell (dem., La would have pub
lie lands exploited for sulphur. Morris
Sheppard (dem., Tex.) wants similar
prospecting for potash. Likewise Mr..
Sheppard would have dairying ex-
pertinent station established in his
home state. Hiram Johnson (rep,
CALI and Francis e. Warren (rep.,
Wyo) have new irrigation projects in
line; ]. Thomas Hefiin (dem., Ala
has four bills for cotton growers, and
George w. Norris (rep., Neb.) wants
inspection of export farm products.
Bait for Farmers.
Politicians at Washington look with
contempt upon the voters who elect
them and they consider the farmers
mere voting cattle can be stampeded
into supporting any senator or con-
gresham who loudly bleats about his
loyalty and claims that other sena.
tors and congressman combine to de-
feat him. In their own states they are
all defenders of the particular inter
ests OF the states, but In Washington
they are party men, or tied to some
sort of bloc, doing everything in their
power to keep the farmers and work
ers in subsection to the capitalists
who own the old parties.
The farm measures proposed are so
much bait for the farmers. Though
the farmers have been suckers here
tofore and supported the old parties,
the farm crisis that is growing ever
more menacing will inevitably result
in political revolt through the
agricultural region.
Never before was there a more
pressing need for a powerful labor
party in the industrial centers to form
alliances with the Disconnected and
impoverished farmers for an attack
upon the old parties OF capitalism.