The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-08-16

of foreign countries have thus been indirectly aided
in their competitio with the American farmer Nat
waterways. Their modernization will comprise
most substantial contribution to midwest farm re-
lief and to the development of 20 of our interior
states This modenization includes not onlv the
great Mississippi system, with its joining of the
Great Lakes and of the heart of midwest agriculture
to the gulf, but also shpway from the Great Lakes
to the Atlantic These improvements would mean
SO large an increment in farmers prices to war
rant their construction many times over. There is
no more vital method of farm relief.
But we must not stop here.
"An outstanding proposal of the party program
IS the whMehearted pledge to undertake the reor-
ganlzation OF the marketing system upon sounder
and more economical lines. We have already con-
trbuted greatly to this purpose by the acts support
ing farm co-operatives the establishment of inter-
mediate credit banks, the regulation of stockyards
public exchanges and the expansion of the depart
much farther. It pledges the creation of federal
farm board of representative farmers to be clothed
with authority and resources with which not only to
still further aid farmers co-operatives and pools and
to assist generally in solution of farm problems but
especially to build up with federal finance, farmer
owned and farmer-controlled sterilization corpora
ton which will protect the farmer from the depres-
slons and decentralization of seasonal guts and per-
iodical SURPRISES.
objection has been made that this program.
as laid down by the party platform, may REQUIRE
that several hundred millions of dollars of capital
be advanced by the federal government without on
legation upon the individual farmer With that OBJ
A
spending ninety billions year can we'll afford an
expenditure of a few hundred millions for a work
able program that will give to one-third of its popu-
iatlon their fair share of the nations prosperity
Nor does this proposal put the government into bus
mess except so far as it is called upon to furnish in
ltal capital with which to build up the farmer ia
the control of his own destnies.
This program adapts itself to the variable
problems OF agriculture not only today but which
Will arise in the future I do not believe that any
single human being or any group Of human beings
N adv oil os4;o IL :I1
arise in SO vast and complicated an Industry over
term OF years. The first step is to create an efec-
i've agency directly for these purposes and to give
esq and they will be fulfilled by the Republican par
ty 1t is definite plan of relief 1t needs only the
detailed elaboration of legislation and appropria-
tons to put it into force
During my term as secretary of commerce
nave steadily etndeavored to build up system of
cooperation between the government and business
ested in the problem of a particular Industry sI1ch
Under these cooperative actions ali elements infer
as manufactures, distributor, worker and consumer
have been called into council together not for a
single occasion but for continuous work These eff
frts have been successful beyond any expectation
they nave been accomplished without interference
or regulation by the government They have Sc
cured progress IN the industries, remedy for abuses
eHmnat1on OF waste, reduction of cost in produc-
tlon ana distribution lower prices to the consumer
ana more stable employment and profit am con-
Vinced that this form of action, as it has done in
other industries, can greatly benefit farmer. dis
trlbutor and consumer
"The working out of graicultural relief consti,
tutes the most important obligation of the next adj
mlnistratlon. 4 stand pledged to these proposals
Inc object OF our policies is to establish for our
farmers an income equal to those of other occupa-
IONS; Tor the farmers wife the same comforts in
her nome as women in other groups; for the farm
boys and girls the opportunities in life as 9TH
er boys and girls So far as my own abilities may
De OF service, dedicate them to help secure pros
per1ty and contentment in that industry where and
my forefathers were born and nearly all nv family
still obtain their livelihood"