Evening star., 1932-10-05
OFFERS WAR DEBTS
TO HELP FARMERS
Cites Benefits of Tariff and
Scores Stand OIL Party
Opposition.
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ing what might be colloquially called
the rubber dollar" I opposed this
1t was held up in the Senate. They
passed provision for loans to cor
porations and everybody else, whether
they were affected and guarded by pub
lie interest or not. 1t would have made
the Government the most gigantic
paWnbroker of history. l vetoed that
measure. They passed other measures
with this same reckless disregard for
the safety of the Nation.
All this undermined public confidence
and delayed all the efforts Of the ad
minisuation and the powerful instru-
merNAlities which We had placed in
ACTIN to save the country. These
measures. representing the dominant
Democratic control, brought discour-
agement and delay to recovery. That
recovery began the moment when it
was certain that these destructive meas
ureS of this Democratic controlled
House were stopped Had their pro-
gram passed 1t would have been the
end Of recovery. If it ever passes. it
will end hope Of recovery These meas
nreS were not simply gestures for vote
catching. These ideas and measures
represented the true sentiments and
doctrines of the majority of the control
of the Democratic party. A small
minority of Democratic members dis
approved these measures. but these men
obviously have no voice today. This
program was passed through the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives under
the leadership of the gentleman who
has been nominated the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, and thus
these measures and policies were ap-
proved by their party
Compares the Programs.
At no time in public discussion Of the
vital issues of this campaign he's any
Democratic candidate. high or low dis
avoWed these destructive acts which
must emerge again if they come to
power. l ask you to compare this
actual Democratic program and these
Democratic actions with the construc-
tive program produced by the admins
tration to meet the emergency. Do
you propose to place these men in
power and subject this country to that
sort of measures and policies? 1t is by
their acts in Congress and their leader
ship that you shall know them
OF vital concern to you are the diff
culties OF agriculture. They have been
of vital concern to me for the whole of
these difficult years. I have been at
the post to which the first news of
every disaster is delivered, to which no
detail of human suffering is spared. /
have heard the cries of distress. and not
only as sympathetic listener but as
one oppressed by deep sense of re-
sponsibility to do all that human inge-
nuity could devise.
1 wish to speak directly to those of
my hearers who are farmers of what is
on my mind, of what is in my heart:
to tell you the conclusions I have
reached from this bitter experience of
the years in dealing with these prob
lens which affect agriculture at home
and their relations to foreign countries.
That agriculture is PROSTATE needs no
proof You have saved and economical
and worked to reduce costs, but with all
this yours is story of distress and
suffering.
What the farmer wants and needs is
higher prices and in the meantime to
keep from being dispossessed from his
farm, to have fighting chance to keep
his home. The pressing question is how
these two things are to be attained.
Every decent citizen wants to see the
farmer receive higher prices and wants
to see him hold his home. Every citi-
zen realizes that the general recovery
of the country cannot be attained un-
less these things are secured to the
farmer. Every thinking citizen knows
that most of these low-price levels and
most of this distress, except in one or
two commodities where there is an un-
wieldly surplus, is due to the decreased
demand for farm products by our mil
lions of unemployed and by foreign
countries. Every citizen knows that
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the inability of the farmer to buy the
products of the factory. Every think
ing citizen knows that the farmer, the
worker and the business man are in the
same boat and must all come to score
together.
Destructive Forces Stopped.
Every citizen who stretches his vision
across the United States realizes that
for the last three years we have been
on this downward spiral due to the
destructive forces which have already
described. If he has this vision, he to-
day takes courage and hope. because
he also knows that these destructive
forces have been stopped; that the
spiral is moving upward; that more
men are being employed and are able
to consume more agricultural products.
HC pOllClcS VI IilC lStpuUllCdIl party
and the unprecedented instrumentalities
and measures which we have put in
motion, many Of which are designed di-
rectly for agriculture. they are winning
out. II we continue to fight along
these lines we shall win.
The very basis Of safety to American
agriculture Is the protective tariff on
farm products.
The Republican party originated and
proposes to maintain the protective
tariff on agricultural products. We will
even widen that tariff further where
necessary to protect agriculture. Ninety
per cent of your market is at home,
and propose to reserve this market to
the American farmer.
Has the Democratic party ever pro-
posed or supported a protective tariff
on farm products? Has it ever given
one single evidence Of protection OF the
home market to the American farmer
from the products raised by peasant
labor on cheap land abroad?
The Democratic party took the tariff
of a large part OF farm products in
1913 and placed them on the free list.
A Republican Congress passed the
emergency farm tariff in 1921 and
Democratic President vetoed it. The
Democratic minority in the next Con-
gress in 1921 voted against the revived
emergency farm tariff. The Republi-
can majority passed it and the Repub-
hcan President signed it. The Demo-
cratic minority voted against the in
crease of agricultural tariffs in the Re-
publican tariff Of 1922. Most of the
Democratic members of Congress voted
against the increases in the tariff bill
of 1890. Their platform enunciates the
principle of "a competitive tariff Tor
revenue" The competition that means
is peasant labor and cheap lands. Their
candidate states: I'VE sit on a high
wall of Hawley-Smoot tariff; sealed
by the highest tariff in the history of
the world; "a wicked and exorbitant
tariff; "a ghastly jest; "our policy
declares for lowered tariffs" This is q
promise of reduction of farm tariffs.
They will reduce AGRICULTURAL tariffs If |