Evening star., 1928-04-25
Senate Action on Farm Bill
Revives Spirited Discussion

lation can ever take the place of indi-
/ Vldual initiative in farming or in other
| occupations. certainly whatever legiSla-
| tive help can do should be done for
/ Americas primary industry" The Sioux
City Tribune independently holds that
| those who pretend that they would
Ike TO see something done for agricul-
tural equity. but are opposed 10 the
/ pending plan. with few exceptions. are
obviously inSincere"
There is no reason" argues the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram independent
Democratlcl. for anybody in the United
States TO oppose the bill on the ground
taat II seeks 70 raise prices az the ex-
penSe OF the consumer That is ex-
actly what we have done for every other
branch Of national industry, and We
have not suffered in the process" The
waterloo Tribune tindependent Progress
SlVel states: Farm relief advocates
present the bill as the best example OF
compromise. Yet il does not suit. And
II We have to suit Borah on every point
ana BrookhaTt on every point--theSe
men should be our friendS-and the
PRESIDENT on every point and everybody
else IN Congress on every point, there is
no Likelihood of farm relief"
-
Referring to industry. finance. rail-
roads and labor rs having had the aid
o. Federal laws" the Houston Chronicle
tDemocraticl declares: When stand
ing on their own bottom they can't do
as well as agriculture. Why then.
should We continue 20 accept the absurd
theory that agriculture Is weak INDUS
Try. doomed 10 poverty. While these
others are strong and able 90 create
FiCheS Tor those who engage in thensa
Let's set away from this idea
lnat farming must drift 10 y pcou class
Inat Is not 50, except as we make Il SO ..
The Great Falls Tribune tDemQcratlca
looks upon the bill as - reaSonaeIe
attempt 20 work out for agriculture the
same sort Of advantages that the manu~
featuring industry enjoys under cur
protective tariff policy"
Tut the Detroit News tindepenaeuD
warns that lit has happened before and
might happen again that had economies
WILL turn out also 90 be bad politicS." ="
While the Columbia Record Demo
cratlcl and the Wichita Beacon tlnSe-
pendent Republican, see evidence of a
struggle over pork The IoutSyil'.,
Courier~lOurnal tinGepenGenn S,lSysctS
that THE measure lis designed "a relieve
the political pressure. whether or nos II
relieves the farmer The purpoSe ~to
eaten vote" Is seen by the Providence
Journal thdependenp, and the Oak
lana tribune tindependent Republican,
remarks that the bin comes intS =
Congress where there is a IsiSrASision On
the part Of many members IL use il fcr
kAsltAcAl purposes" The Helena Alon-
tana Record-Hegald tRepuhliean> teelS
tllat there Is reason % otter bis odds
that CoogrcSS will adjourn Without hsy~
ms decided the farm issue
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False hopes are aSSatlea ey the
Baltimore sun ,tndepenaent nenao~
slaiiei, while the Norfolk Vtrgmlan-
Fuot tindependent nenaoeratiel and the
Roanoke Times tmaependent penle-
erauel see political eNEeaieney" as tire
moving torce, a glttteglng gold hgiCS"
y TN appraisal of the Grand Rapids
Tres independently, and the INDIAN
alsei& star tindependent Republican,
ADVISES, The SoataSg the farmer awak-
ems 10 What Is being done to him. md
why, the earlier viii ne gee something
that i effective and eeneneial fr0m the
politicians who are r0feSSinx 50 k,uGly
to be his friends and are helping him "a
SET nowhere"
subsidy" Is tho term applied hy she
he@ton Transcript independently and
tae Fort WAYNE NewS-Ssntiael (ksepuoe
nvanA, The Alhaay GvennAg News (tn-
AZ sNAssva.N sssasMSsNA.A.. NsAa4asN NaS~s
"the OLD objection that h was fnAn-
olalsX nnSo.lnd has not been removed
and the ST Louis Times tRepuelscAnl
calls the equalization fee ''ehn0SiouS
The Utica Observer Dispatch tinaepenes-
aNtt believes that vtha machinery
necessary % operate the htA Ueuld c&
tse1 prove burden upon the country.