Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-03

| equality to agriculture. No such
| scheme can re-establish Presiden
! Coolidge in the esteem of agriculture. "
"Mr. Cooldge's position" in the
Judgment of the Indianapolis News
| independently would he stronger had
| the Government not applied legisla ton
to other business undertakings that
involve the principle he criticizes price
| hxing). Az long as this policy is APP.
| piled to other groups it is illogical to
| deny similar treatment for agricul-
| ture. The President will receive credit
| for his sincerity in vetoing the ma jor
| remedy proposed by leading farm
spokesmen, but it is obvious that the
| problem of relief persists. Nor can
| the country as a whole remain uncon.
| cerned with the economic maladjust-
| ment, affecting as it does most of the
80 900 600 people who live on the farms
| of the Nation
| The Canton Daily News independent
| Democratic) charges that the President
can no more understand the West
and the situation that produced the
McNary Haugen bill than George III
could understand the disturbing con.
| duct of John Hancock Sam Adams a nd
| Paul Revere" The News also saws
| He adopts in opposition to this relief
| for farmers pretty nearly every argu.
ment which he rejects when favorine
the relief of the particular. special in.
| terests which he holds divinely en-.
| titled to relief"
THE trouble with what the Presi.
| dent has done" AYERS the Des Moines
j Register independent Republican, is
that nobody can read his message and
| feel that the President understa nds
| what he is talking about. That is far
worse condemnation of the President
| than any mistake of deliberate iude.
ment on his part" The BLOOMINGTON
Paragraph independent Republica nj
| contends that Congress, in closer
| touch with the whole country than the
| President, has distinctly changed its
| attitude after the evidences on this
| measure OF farm relief have come
to 1t through the past years develop
mentS."
1--WE think the bin will he resur.
! rected." says the Rock Island Argus
| independently, ''in substantially the
/ same form and put upon it's passage
| by subsequent Congress, and we
| doubt If Mr. Coolidge will ever have
| the opportunity to impose another
veto upon such legislation" The
Waterloo Tribune independent. Salt
Lake Deseret News independently To.
peka Daily Capital Republican) and
Lincoln State Journal independent
Republican, expect the fight to 60 on
| to a successful end. while the Lynch.
burg Advance Democratic), assailine
the high tariff system, as benefitine
! only limited classes. concludes: when
| the rural population becomes fully
| awake to this fact, the term 'embat-
/ tied farmer may have a new mea n
ing" Political action is foreseen by
the Sioux City Tribune independently,
Davenport Democrat Democratic.
Duluth Herald independently and
Omaha World-Herald independent.
THE issue lines up the East against
J, the West" proclaimS the Burlington
Gazette Democratic). predicting bat
tie in the Republican convention,
! while the Passaic Herald Gndepend-
ent) foresees tariff reprisals, and the
Morgantown New Dominion Demo.
cratic) paints to inconsistency with
tariff policies. Illogical is the ver-
dict OF thu Chattanooga News Demo.
cratic). and President Coolidge out
Of tune with. the great farming re-
] gious" II the Judgment OF the Illinois
atakn journal RepuhlicAnA