Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-30

Farm legislation is discussed by the
press with the hope that out of the
maneuvering at the Capitol will come
practicable measure to which Presi-
! dent Hoover will give his signature EN-
phatic differences of opinion are APP
parent as to the export debenture
plan proposed by the Senate commit
| tee, but opposed by the President and
eliminated by the House i'll passing the
! bill
Protective tariffs are used as the chief
argument for the debenture plan by
those papers which speak favorably OF
this form of farm relief. The New
! York Times, conceding powerful argu-
ments by the President suggests: THE
/ economic and political logic behind the
debenture plan is almost exactly the
same as that behind the system of pro-
| tective tariffs. If the former is re-
jected as harmful to the true national
! interests, the latter ought to be. But
it won't be. A little thing like glaring
| inconsistency never yet overturned a
| party policy" This contention is up
| held also by the Raleigh News and OBJ
server and Canton Daily News. The
Houston Chronicle declares that 'for a
! hundred years Southern agriculture has
been taxed to pay for industrial devel-
OpmenC IN OLnef SeCClOnS.
THE same Senators and Representa-
| tives who are demanding general in
creaseS In the tariff to benefit all classes
of manufacture in this country" says
| the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "are
most vociferous in opposing any attempt
to tax the whole country for the BEN
| eft of a special class. when that Spe-
cial class is agriculture.
The Philadelphia Record argues
| ''The Interstate Commerce Commission
exists to make rates on transportation,
or. in another way of saying it, to fix
| prices on the sale of transportation
| service. But those who believe the
| Government should use similar meas
ures to promote the producing in
dustry and insure profits to those en-
gagged in it will have to show strength
enough to overcome veto"
Severely critical are the terms APP
| piled to the debenture plan by various
newspapers. Among them are the fol-
| lowing: Substitute nostrum for the
Nary Haug bill of last session
| Charleston Evening Post. Artificial
aid" and dangerous precedent'-In-
| dianapolis Star. ''FallaciouS scheme
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Fantastic and
| impossible economic theory"--Provi-
dence journal. Method of trading
stamps from which the actual farmer
would get little if any benetit"-Roa
noke WorldNeWs. The Louisville
Courier journal also asSails it as a
'nostrum"
I'VE are glad to see the President de-
clare himself on this question SO
promptly and so forcefully." says the
New Bedford Evening Standard, and
the Baltimore Sun comments: I'VE
shall not deny the poetic justice In the
! farmers plea, but we are glad, never
theless, that a new evil is not piled on
| old ones And. incidentally. it is diff
cult to understand with what consist
| ency Senators who fought for the equal
iZation fee on the ground that it was
| essential to prevent overproduction can
now fight for a bounty which, as the
President shows, If it should raise prices
would inevitably invite the same evil
with no real check upon It,
President Hoover, i'll his direct criti-
cism of the methods pursued i'll Con-
gress," asserts the Santa Barbara Daily
News, lis inviting a conflict. But he
will have on his side the mass OF the
people who desire to see some sort of
legislation enacted which has a chance
of success" The Kansas City Journal
EOSJ COHLeuuS lIldI ElcSIuSHt IlooFCA
should not hesitate to use all his pres
tige in an effort to see that workable
legislation is enacted and that obviously
vicious measures are killed in Congress,
relieving him of the sad necessity of
| using his veto"
Looking over the situation. the st.
Louis Times concludes: Since the agri-
cultural depression all sorts of remedies
have been offered for the trouble. Some
of these have been sound and others
unsound. Perhaps the position of Presi-
dent HooVer--that the solution will not
be found in any one remedy, but in sew
erals about as sound as any that can
be taken" The Racine Journal-NeWs
fears that "a deadlock will result, with
no farm relief legislation enacted" The
New orleans Times-Picayune believes
that If the debenture plan were made a