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the farm IeaQSTS go Hi lIle way 10 Dtu-
rock They want to reverse what Borah
spoke of as the fatal trek" from the
farm to the city. They want to make
farming more remunerative than work.
ing in factories-or even owning fac
tories. They propose to achieve this
through using the tariff In different
way from the way in which it has been
used before They want--it is not too
much to say--to use the tariff so as
to discriminate in favor of the farmer
and against the manufacturer. BY
means of this pending revision OF the
tariff, which they now control, they
| propose not only to make farming more
profitable. but frankly to make manu-
| featuring less profitable. One need only
read Senator La Follette's speech on
the chemical schedule to realize this
| purpose. Most of that speech consisted
of exhibiting what he alleged to be the
excessive profits of the chemical indus
| tries.
View of Farmers Cited.
This fight, as conceived by the farm
| leaders, is a fight along the deepest pos
sible lines It is a fight to stop the
| trend of population from farm to city
no less. AS Senator Thomas Of Okla
homa put 1t: ITO fail to act to enable
| the farmer to remain upon the farm is
| to strike a staggering blow"
Senator Thomas envisaged the night
in the same colors when he spoke OF
| the fact that agriculture can control
the Senate, though it cannot control
the House. (Senator Thomas had in
mind, of course, the familiar distinc-
ton between the two chambers. In the
Senate, every State has the same num-
Der Of Senators, two. Oklahoma has as
many as Pennsylvania. Whereas. in the
Lower House. the membership is in pro-
portion of population, Oklahoma hav-
ing only 8 to Pennsylvania's So
THE majority of the States OF this
| Nation" Senator Thomas said, ARE sg-
ricultural States" and, therefore, can
control the Senate in which each State
has the same number of Senators. He
added that the farmers have lost con-
troll of the other branch of Congress,
The other branch is controlled by in
dustry, controlled by the great cities.
The other branch will never again be
an agricultural body. 1t will never
again be controlled by the farmers.
The Oklahoma Senator added; are
we, the representatives OF agricultural
States. their last and only hope, to sit
| here placidly and permit legislation TO
be enacted which will injure rather
| than help those for whom we claim to
speak? Such q record by me Will not
be made"
House and Senate Disagree.
The controversy, stated thus, is as
fundamental as politics can ever be
What the coalition leaders themselves
visualize for a few weeks hence is a
| tug-of-war between the Senate, as thus
described, and the House, as thus de-
scribed. Un strict accuracy this par
tisan description of the Houses posi-
! ton ought to be modified. The House
| will say 1t believes in giving the farmer
practically every rate he asks for, but
also in giving industries some upward
revision as well)
Through all the arguments and pleas
of the coalition leaders runs the same
| contention--the tariff in the past has
| been used, has been deliberately manlp-
ulated, they charge, to the advantage
of the manufacturer and the East, 70
the hurt of the farmer and the West
and South.
Drawing line" said Senator Nc
Master of South Dakota, around the
States of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota
Nebraska, Kansas, North and South
| Dakota, Montana. Idaho, Washington
and oregon, we have what is known
as the great agricultural Northwest
Yet on the - finance COM
mittee (the Senate committee which
writes the tariff there Is not single
representative from any one of those
| states or from that section OF the
| Northwest. wish to call at
tention to the fact that Vermont, with
a population of $4,000; New Hamp.
shire, with population of 900, ano
Connecticut with population o.
| !. 600 900, making 100000 people in all
have three representatives upon the
finance committee, while the great ter
ritorv which I mentioned comprising
| the Northwestern States, with over IT,
| 600 600 people have not soul upon that
! committee to represent their interests
| n is no wonder that a stream OF let
| tiers Is pouring in from the Northwest
protesting against the tarin bill that
was framed by committee upon which
there was not single representative FOL
the 10000, 900 people In that section OF
the country"
packed Senate" Is Charged.
This charge, that the committee Of
the Senate which writes the tariff II
| Ito saw it as it was meant to be said
packed" against the agricultural parts
of the country, was made over ana over
again. It was made with especial pun
Senator Walsh's austere diction woulc
not permit him to say packed" but
that is what he meant 1T appears
Mr.. President, as though q studied ef'
fort were made in the selection Of mem
bers of the committee to exclude from
that membership any Senator from any
of the distinctly agricultural States
This could not have been acct
dental, of course; it must have beer
that they were deliberately excluded: :
These quotations are certainly sun
Gent to show the fundamental basis oil
the new coalition as conceived by it,
leaders That this Interpretation Is fail
is further proved by the fact that the
basis of the coalition is understood ir
the same way by the leaders OF tht
regular Republicans-indeed, by every