The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-10-13
PAGE SIX

lican, soldier farmer by the way,
hunter, explorer, "chip off the old
block" came into Minnesota Monday
to speak kindly word for his friend
c. G. Selvig of Crookston who hap
pens to be running as the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Ninth
district.
Warning against "quack remedies y
--lauding the farmer as the backbone
of the nation, commencing the Re-
publican tariff on butter and wheat,
Mr.. Roosevelt paid his personal re-
spects to C. G. Selvig, the man. He
was at Moorhead Tuesday in sup
port of the Republican candidate in
the Ninth.
"Mr Selvig is a gentleman whom l
have known personally for long
time" Colonel Roosevelt said at the
Athletic club at St. Paul, en- route to
Detroit Lakes. "He is a real man"
herman, interested in general in
country and community betterment.
'This man Selvig," the Colonel con-
tinued, "has vision" He does not con-
tent himself with meeting problems
that confront us day by day but he
looks into the future and tries to
solves the problems that are to come.
l have been especially interested in
his>views on outdoor recreation which
have brought him national attention"
The Colonel, whose well-known
view on prohibition were taboo on
t7-i,o fa TO hn nd
his father, the former President Of
the United States, are especially be-
loved, said that "the farmer is the
basis of civilization"
"We have to eat to live. City peo-4
pie may think that they are indie
yendent of the farmer, but let the,
farmer get into real trouble and the
city people at once will be brought
face to face with the realization that
without the farmer they cannot ex-I
ist."
The plight of the wheat farmer was
not overlooked by the New Yorker,
who said:
SIN many places in the country our
farmers are not having an easy time.
Any one who maintains otherwise is
binding his eyes to the truth
eve Republicans intend to make it
our business to do all that is possible
to remedy this.
However, we must not adopt a.
quack remedy. What we must strive
for are policies and measures that will
stand the test of time"
Colonel Roosevelt said that so many
remedies have been suggested that
every one is puzzled by their num-
Der.
1--WE are studying ALL he said, '"in
an endeavor to arrive at correct con-
clusions," but he asserted the Repub
lican party has not stopped at study
but has "acted." where we decid-
ed" he declared, "that remedy was
sound, we have put it into effect at
once"
The younger edition of the former
President cited loans to the farmers
and the placing of representative Of
agriculture on the Federal Reserve
board. He referred to the Agricultu-
raj Credit Act, sponsored by Repre-
sentative August H. Andersen, Re-
publican congressman from the Third
Minnesota district.
The Colonel, however, pointed out
that loans to the farmers are of little
real value unless the farmer can
make profit in his business"
Gail you do is to pile debt after
debt on his shoulders until he gradu-
ally sinks under the weight" he said.
Price fixing was the only method
which Mr.. Roosevelt placed in the list
of "quack remedies" He made no
reference in his interview to the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill.
Raising of the tariff on butter from
cents under the Democratic tariff
to cents under the Fordney tariff, a
Republican tariff, was listed among
the Republican achievements.
81 have nothing against the Danes"