The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-12-08
Farmers Need Aid
To Market Crop
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solved without impairment of the
friendly feeling.
While the Presidents adherence
to his former policy regarding ag-
riculture did not come as sur
prise, it was noticeable beceu~e
neither political percussions nor his
summer in the west seemed to have
affected his viewpoint.
Any sound and workable propos-
al to help the farmer, he said,
would have his earnest support but
he laid down the principle that it
should aim to assist the farmer "to
work out his own salvation, social
ly and economically" Taking the
position that the farmer already
has been assisted by reduction of
federal taxes and that agriculture
was. showing signs of improving,
Mr.. Coolidge said:
est is useless to propose a tenn
porary expedient. What is needed
is permanency and stability. Gov
eminent price fixing is known to he
unsound and bound TO result is
disaster. A government subsidy
would work out in the same way.
"Price fixing and subsidy will
both increase the surplus, instead
of diminishing it. Putting the
government directly into business
is merely a combination of subsidy
and price fixing aggravated by po-
litica pressure.
t'These expedients would lead
logically to telling the farmer b!
law what and how much he should
plant and where he should plant it,
and what and how much he should
sell and where he should sell it..
"The most effective means of
dealing with surplus crops is to re-
duce the surplus acreage. While
this can not be done by the individ-
ual farmer, it can be done through
the organizations already in exis-
tence, through the information
published by the Department of
Agriculture, and especially through
banks and others who supply :
it refusing to finance an acreage
too large.
at is impossible to provide by
law for an assured success and
prosperity for all those who engage
in farming. If acreage becomes
over extended, the Government can
not assume responsibility for 1t.
The Government can, however, as
siSt cooperative associations and
other organizations in orderly mar
keting and handling a surplus
clearly due to weather and season.
al conditions, in order to save the
producer from preventable loss.
while it is probably impossible
to secure this result at a single
step, and much will have to be
worked out by trial and rejection,
a beginning could be made by set
ting up a Federal board or commits
sion of able and experienced men
in marketing, granted equal al
vantages under this board to the
various agricultural commodities
and sections of the country, giving
encouragement to the cooperative
movement in agriculture, and pro-
viding revolving loan fund at
moderate rate of interest for the
necessary financing. Such legisla-
ton would lay the foundation for
a permanent solution of the sur
plus problem.
Amy attempt to revise laws af-
fecting the federal revenues, Mr..
Coolidge declared, should be ap-
preached with a desire to sustain
the national budget.
Significant admonition was Civ
en- Congress that. the duty for franz
ing a tax bill was peculiarly its
own and that it should guard
against Especial interests, too often
selfish, always uniformed of the
national needs as a whole, with
hired agents using their proposed
benefciaries as engines of propa-
ganda."
Being a nation which relies upon
on its ability to maintain peace by
fair dealing and good rather than
by force, the President advocated
the maintenance of a moderate
army and navy. He added, how
ever, the need for considerable ma
val expansion had been demon
strated some time ago and that
in rounding out its navy, the Unit
ed States would not be moved by
failure of the Geneva armament
conference. He said the United
States is 'ready and willing to con-
tinue the preparatory investigation
on the general subject OF nuilta-
ton Of ornaments which have been
started under the auspices Of the
League of Nations
Everyone knew" Mr.. Coolidge
said, "that had a three power
agreement been reached it would
have left us with the necessity of
continuing our building program.
The failure to agree should not
cause us to build either more or
less than we otherwise should.
"Any future treaty of limitation
will call on US for more ships. We
should enter on no competition.
We should refrain from no needful
program.
The President declared himself
in favor of Gulf to the Atlantic
waterway, expressing the opinion
that route through the st. Law
renee river would be cheaper and
more expeditions.
While he favored proposals for
promoting peace throughout the
world, Mr.. Coolidge declared that
the United States should continue
to promote peace by example and