Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-11

of the political opposition in matters
not the subject of partisan dispute. It
is only through such respect for ma
| jority opinion that we can execute the
public will in government But in all
that the national administration has at
tempted in the execution of its pledged
policies during the past 16 months, save
in the ratification of the treaty now
under consideration by the Senate, it
has confronted the most persistent fac
| tional and partisan opposition within
the memory of the American people
Much of this opposition, believe it may
fairly be said, has seemed to be inspired
more by desire to diScredit the ad-
ministration than by a purpose of as
sisting it in serving the public good and
executing the public will as affirmed so
decisively 20 months ago. In view of
this fact, we who have battled beside
he President may with special gratific4-
ton point to a record of solid achieve
ment, destined permanently to advance
the national well-being, one that may
favorably be compared with the progress
made in any period of similar length
in the entire history of our country.
Oncoming results will Justify this rec
ord and silence all those carping critics
and false prophets the volume of whose
clamor is in inverse ratio to the wisdom
Farm Relief.
The national issue of foremost i'm
portance in the last campaign was farm
relief That the state of depression into
which the American farming industry
had fallen could not longer continue
without grave injustice to our agricul-
tural population and serious injury to-
all our nationa; interests was admitted
INvy oil Az NIL of hi nd
in accordance with our campaign
pledges, for the first time in our whole
history a national policy of farm relief
has been inaugurated. Under the
leadership of President Hoover, it repre-
sentS the best thought of students of
this problem. including especially the
representatives of the national organ
ization of the farmers themselves. Never
has an effort to solve an economic prob
lem been backed by appropriations so
vast or machinery so extensive. Hand1-
capped as this effort has been by the
reaction in our own country to world
wide agricultural depression, its service
to the American farmer has already
been substantial in staying the full
effects of this disaster, and it holds
forth the hope that with the return of
better general economic conditions,
which are among the certainties of the
d OOlublOD VI OII1o
problem of placing agriculture on
basis of equality with other great in
uustries is near at hand.
Whatever the cost, we of America do
not propose to permit the farmers Of
this country to sink to the status of for
eign peaSantry. The farms of America
are the great reservoir of manhood and
womanhood from which is drawn the
virile leadership essential to national
greatness. This has been true from the
days when George Washington left his
Virginia plantation to become the leader
and symbol of the Nation, and now, as
always, it is true The farm is the basis
not only of our economic but of our
social structure.
The Tariff.
AS a second major measure of both
farm and industrial relief, the Repub-
lican party and President Hoover
pledged in the last campaign such a re-
vision OF the tariff as would withdraw
from the alien producer that unfair ad-
vantage in our domestic market that is
derived from the use of cheaper land
and cheaper labor. Full industrial en-
ployment in the United States is essen
tial to the absorption al profitable prices
OF the products of the American farm.
Our problem of an agricultural surplus
is aggravated when the purchasing pow
er OF American wage earners declines.
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