The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-14
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Six-Point Program
Outlined in Talk
At Topeka, Kansas

prices Of wheat and cotton through
so-called sterilization became appar-
ent," he continued the presidents
farm board, of which his secretary of
agriculture was member, invented
the cruel joke of advising farmers to
allow 20 per cent of their wheat lands
to lie idle, to pillow up every third row
of cotton. and to shoot every tenth
dairy COW.
Hoover Merely Apologies
Nov, after the harm has been
done, the presidents acceptance
speech of 1928 fully recognizes the fu-
tility Of the sterilization experiment
and merely apologies for the results"
OF the present Republican leader
ship" Roosevelt said the farmers
could expect more Republican tar
ifs: implacable opposition to any plan
to raise the price Of farm products; a
program OF starving out" a third of
the present production"
"A pleasant prospect this" he con-
tinued. Reduced to lowest terms, the
present administration asks farmers
to put their interests into the hands
Of their bitterest opponents - men
who will go to any and all lengths to
safeguard and strengthen a protected
few, but who will coldly say to Amer
lean farmers.
"'One-third Of you are not needed.
Run a race with bankruptcy to see
which will survive It is no new the
! DRY of government. It has been reac-
tionary policy since the immemorial
Help the few; perhaps those few will
be kind enough to help the many.
This Is unsound; 1t is unfair: it is
unjust. Without tariff readjustment
the presidents program is hopeless
without active assistance the Grundy
schedules can break the farmer long
before the farmer can find market
for his goods. It suggests that if in.
tiustry revives, the farmer will be
taken care of; though you all know
that the boom of 1928 brought moth.
ing but lower prices and more debts
to the farm"
Cut Interest Burden
| Roosevelt asserted there is the
necessity for refinancing farm mort.
cages In order to relieve the burden
of excessive interest charges and thu
grim threat of foreclosures"
Referring to assistance for DISPOSE
ton Of surplus crops, the long dis
cussion of which brought out the Nc.
Nary Haugen bill, the export deben.
ture and the domestic allotment plan
Roosevelt said:
1T will be my purpose to compose
the conflicting elements of these vari-
Gus plans; to coordinate efforts to the
end that agreement may be reached
upon the details Of a distinct policy,
aimed at producing the result to
which all these efforts and plans are
directed-the restoration of agricul-
ture to economic equality with other
industries"
Gets Warm Greeting
The sweep of the Roosevelt special
through four states Tuesday and
Tuesday night brought the New York
governor through a series of crowds
that grew progressively larger until
he reached jefferson City. Mo.
There, for the first time since he
left Albany, the candidate left his
train for a short drive to the state
capitol, where the Missouri state
Democratic convention was in ses-
sion. A crowd that massed about the
station was so dense there was some
delay in putting into position the
high-railed ramp by which Roosevelt
customarily leaves the train.
The crowd cheered him loudly. At
the state capitol Roosevelt was in
troduced by former Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri.
The governor spoke briefly. re-
minding the crowd of the outcome
on the Maine elections and asking
what Missouri was going to do in
November. A shout went up from
the convention delegates at this. He
added that he simply had stopped to
SAY howdy."
Earlier in the day the train had
halted at half a dozen other. towns
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Mis-
souri,. At these he exchanged pleas
antries with the crowds.