Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24
UNION Of FARMERS
SEENAT INSTITUTE
Political Combine of South
and West Predicted as
Cure for Problems.

By the Associated Press
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, August
24.-Political union of the farmers OF
the South and West was prophesied
and approved of by speakers at the
Institute of Politics today.
Economic kinship of the South and
West and other points of political
sympathy were set forth by George
A. Peek, president of the American
Council of Agriculture, which repre-
sents more than so farm organiza-
tions; by Clarence Ousley OF Dallas,
Tex; by Henry A. Wallace, editor of
Wallaces Farmer, Western farm
publication, and by DR.. r. c. kilgore
of North Carolina, chairman OF the
board of the American Cotton Grow
ers Exchange, representing co.opera-
tive associations in IL States.
Relief Bill Defended.
The McNary- Haugen farm relief
bill came in for strong support in the
conference discussion.
Mr., Wallace, in urging cooperation,
said that farmers were not getting
their fair share of the national income,
partly because of governmental action
favoring other classes. 1t was high
time, he said, that agrlcultulsts OF
the South and West got together in a
political way, cooperating at times
with Eastern labor, to hold in check
the rapid exploitation of natural re-
sources and industrialization of the
country.
The unnatural alliance under Re-
publicanism, Wallace continued, be-
tween Western farmers and Industrial
lists provoked by the Civil War is
loosening. Most of the farmers, he
said. would be Democrats today had
it not been for the Civil War and If
the Democratic party would revive in
modern form it's ancient traditions and
cease to be merely solid South plus
Tammany, it might within the next
10 years put The Republican party on
the defensive.
Chinese Treaties Urged.
Treaty revision negotiations in
China should be undertaken with
American diplomacy leading the way
in disregard of conventions, Prof Har-
old S. QuiSlev of the University of
Minnesota told the institute.
Steps to this end should be taken.
he said, to give the Chinese greater
faith in themselves and in foreign
powers and to avoid the possibility of
interracial war.
DR.. Stanley *. Hornbeck OF Har-
ward University. dealing with the sub
iect of the Chinese missions. said
1.-THE Christian missionaries had more
to do with bringing on the revolution,
the Nationalist movement and the eff
forts toward a better organization
than any other class"
A sound policy toward China. in
Dr. Hornbeck's opinion, is contained
in Secretary kellogg's declaration
that the United States welcomes
every advance toward reorganiZa ton
of Chinese government and wishes to
deal with China in a spirit of neu-
trality and li5erality.
Sees New Peace Aid.
The Vatican's virtual acceptance OF
the League of Nations as an lnstru-
ment through which international
peace and good will may be brought
about was described as a powerful inn
petus to the cause of peace by Count
Carlo Sforza, Italian minister of for
eign affairs in the Gioitti cabinet. in
an address before the institute last
night.
No recent action, he said, has
thrown such weight into the balance
for peace as the speeches of the two
papal nuncios on the first day of this
year praising France and Germany
for their work in furtherance of peace
and expressing the desire of the holy
see to collaborate in that direction.
Rome's dread of newly appearing
type of pagan Catholicism had it's in
tiuence in the decision in favor of the
Geneva atmosphere, according to the
statesman The placing on the index
of the French Nationalist organ
L'Action Franchise a few days before
the speeches of the nuncios can only
be explained by the church's anxiety