The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-08-23

class appeal I am stating proposition vital to
the welfare of business as of agriculture.
With the exception of the administrations of
Cleveland and Wilson, the government of this coun-
try has been in Republican hands for half century
For nearly eight years the president and congress
have been Republican. What has been done to
solve this problem? Many promises were made
which have never been fulfilled. Certainly tht
promise of relief by>tariff has not been fulfilled.
The tariff is ineffective on commodities OF
which there is exportabe surplus without controlled
sale of the surplus. Our platform points the way
to make the tariff effective for crops of which W.
produce a surplus. There has been government
interference with laws of supply and demand to
benefit industry, commerce and finance 1t has
been one-sided because business, industry and fl
nance would have been helped more if proper az
tention had been given to the condition of ag-s
culture Nothing of substance has been done to
bring this basic part of national life into con-
formity with the economic system that has been
set UP by law. Government should interfere as lit
tie as possible with business But II it does inter
fere with phase of economic life, be it by tariff,
by assistance to merchant marine, by control of the
flow of money and capital through the banking sys-
tenn, it is bad logic bad economics and an abandon
ment of government responsibility to say that as to
agriculture alone, the government should not aid.
Twice Republican congress has passed legls-
laton only to have it vetoed by president of their
own party, and whether the veto of that specific
no adequate substitute was ever recommended to
the congress by the president and that no construc
tive plan of relief was formulated by any
leader of the Republican party in place OF the plan
which it's congress passed and its president vetoeo
Only caustc criticism and bitter denunciation We're
provoked in the minds of the Republican leaders in
answer to the nationwide appeal for sane en-
deavor to meet this crisis.
Cooperative, co-ordinated marketing and ware
housing of surplus farm products is essential just
co-ordinated, cooperative control OF the flow OF
capital found necessary to the regulation OF our
country's finances. To accomplish financial sta
bity the federal system called into be
ing by Democratic administration. The question
for agriculture is complex. ANY plan devised must
also be co-ordinated with the other phases of our
business Institutions Our platform declares for the
development of cooperative marketing and an
earnest endeavor to solve the problem of the distr
button of the cost of dealing with crop surplus
the marketed unit of the crop whose producers are
benefited by such assistance. Only the mechanics
remain to be devised. I propose to substitute &C
ton for naction and friendliness for hostility. In
my administration of the government of my state
whenever / was confronted with problem of this
character, called into conference those best
equipped on the particular subject in hand l shaft
follow that course with regard to agriculture
Farmers and farm leaders, with such constructive
aid as will come from sound economists and fair
minded leaders of finance and business, must work
out the detail. There are varying plans for the
attainment of the end which is to be accomplished
Such plans should be subjected at to searching,
able and fairinded analysis, because the interests
of all require that the solution shall be economically
sound 4 ---
If am elected, shall Immediately after cleo
ton ask leaders of the type have named, irres-
pective of party, to enter upon this task I shall
join with them in the discharge of their duties dur
ing the coming winter and present to congress i'm
mediately upon its converting the solution recon-
mended by the body Of men best fitted to render
this signal service to the nation. / shall support
the activities of this body until satisfactory law is
placed upon the statute books