The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
By n. PURO.

BECAUSE Of wholesale rrination Of share
= croppers tenants and poor farmers and also
the great number of middle farmers by the
present agrarian crisis, the bourgeosie begin to
realize that it is impossible to collect in all
Instances the debts land rents and taxes from
them. And also because the revolt is brew
ing among these agricultural masses, many cap
tahst politicians realize that Hoover's mora
forum on war debts will not assure the Amer
lean farmers that they are being saved al
though Hoover and his Farm Board have said
50. Therefore some of them are appearing as
sagiours, Of the farmers, making various kinds
Of moratorium proposals the home front"
These capitalist "savows' are coming forth
especially in the Southwestern and Southern
states, where farmers were compelled to sell
their wheat to grain spectators at 23c bushel
Kansss, Oklahoma and where the price of
eotton has dropped to ten cents pound well
under the cost of production.
This situation has already brought the re-
volt of almost the entire farming population
In these parts Of the country against the Hoo
yer administration, so much so that such bull
warks of administration as vice-president Cur
us and Senator Capper, both from Kansas, are
trying TO do something to save the Southwest
for the Republican Party. They do not think
1t safe to wait for the effect of the Hoover
moratorium on European debts Both of these
gentlemen have sent an alarm signal to the
Hoover government. Some other leading Re-
publican politicians such as the former secre-
tary Of the Republican State COMMITTEE of Kan
sas has gone so far as assuring that the South
west already is lost to the Hoover adninistra-
ton, no matter what is going to be done. But
the revolt among these farmers is not going to
stop only as a revolt against Hoover's admin
istrstion and against his Farm Board 1t is
much more threatening. And many capitalist
politicians are fearing open revolts. The march OF
Arkansas farmers last winter was very dan
gerous signal. The tense situation among Ala
banna troopers recent occurrences at Camp
Hill Ala, is also warning of what is coming.
Frightened with these happenings and the
brewing revolts among the agrarian population,
many capitalist politicians think that it is time
to at least try to make the farmers believe that
they are trying to do something on their behalf.
Therefore Alexander Legge the president of
the powerful International Harvester Trust,
who. a year ago resigned as chairman of Hoo
vers Farm Board, came out another day in the
capitalist press with the statement that he has
gwen instructions to the agents Of his COM
pany, that they should be 1enient with the
farmers in collecting the machinery debts from
them and that in the extreme cases." they
should even extend the time for the payments.
This is hailed by the entire bourgeoisie press
as some kind of moratorium"
After the statement of Legge, the news items
in the capitalist press inform u.s. that Gov
ernor Murray in Oklahoma, has by the execu-
tive order, set aside state statute on the pay
ment of rentals on state school lands, declaring
moratorium for 2,12O farmers in the interest
of humanity in times Of emergency" But this
was done only after farmers delegation ap-
peared before the governor, informing him that
they cannot pay their rents. Similarly news
comes from the State Of Kansas that many coun-
ties have been compelled to declare tax mora
forum for farmers. for periods ranging up to