The producers news., 1932-06-24
THE TARIFF FOR THE FARMERS


cucts by 800, upon industrial only 1870. Out o
the 3O@s increase on agricultural products go
not one cent of return, and the capitalists knew
this when the law drafted. The 1870 in
crease Of industrial products have paid many
fold out of the miserable prices which we have
been getting. The 1871 enriched the big trusty
and monopolies by hundreds Of millions at oul
expense and at the expense of the workers in the
| cities The 3O% was used to fool US into the
belief that we could expect something from the
capitalist class and its legislation.
In this way the Republican party has main
tanned "the parity Of protection to agriculture
with other industry" In this way the Republican
party has maintained the outrageous plunder Of
the farmers thru monopoly prices for what they
must buy and less than cost Of production prices
FOR what they must sell.
"The Republican party has also aided the
American farmer by the strengthening Of
the extension system, and by the appropriation Of
S12J 100000 to recaptalize the Federal land banks
and to enable them to extend time to worthy bor-
rowers" The Republican party has strengthened
the horde Of stool pigeon county agnts who live
like leeches off the backs of the tong farmers
In the drouth stricken areas have seen county
agents used to break the militancy of the farm
ers thru discrimination in the feed and seed loans
100000 FOR LAND BANK BOND HOLDERS
How much did you get of the 1875 million Civ
10 the Federal Land Banks? Not mser-
able penny, because this $l250OO,000 was used
rot in relief of the farmers but to relieve the land
banks which the cracking point. The
s125,0OO,OOO were used to back up the land bank
bonds, to make the investments of the capitalist
class secure, to assure them of their interest and
principal This relief for the capitalist class.
"The Republican party pledges itself to the
principle of assistance to cooperative marketing
associations, owned and controlled by the farmers
themselves, through the provisions of the agricu-
tural marketing act, which will be promptly a
mended modified TO accomplish the objects set
forth in the preamble of that act" The Republi-
can party pledges itself to crush the farmers by
means of the power over the markets centralized
in the hands of the Washington agency of Wall
Street.-The Farm Board The Republican party
pledges itself-with the aid of the "prOgresslves"
within its ranks-to try and make the farmers be-
lieve that "co-operative" marketing under the die
tatorship of the Farm Board is something besides
most vicious deception of the toiling farm mass
es for the benefit of the spectators.
The Republican platform touches two other
points in its agricultural plank-taxes and land
utilization"
"Tfpe time has come for a reconsid-
Grafton Of our tax system, federal state
and local. with view to developing a bet
ter coordination, reducing duplication
and relieving unjust burdens. The Re-
publican party pledges itself to this end"
RELIEF OF UNJUST TAX BURDENS
The time has come, the Republican elephant
said, TO talk of many things, now let US talk of
taxes. The reconsideration" Of the tax program
of the capitalist class is evidenced in the broad
ening Of the taxpayers by many hundreds of
thousands in the latest tax measure. To the cap
italist class the plundering of the small and mid
ole farmers thru taxes is not an unjust burden"
The Republican party has relieved unjust bur-
dens" in taxation. It has repaid hundreds of
millions of income taxes to the capitalist class
to the Melons, the Morgans, the Rochefellers.
And finally comes the fundamental problem
Of American agriculture" "the control Of
production TO such volume as will balance supply
with demand" The Republican party boasts that
the tariff and the control of the
acreage of land under cultivation" are vital" In
ms program. 1OId In UNDERSTANDABLE Terms Lnls |
means plowing under every third of cotton
and letting wheat fields lie idle while millions of
workers starve and go ragged This is the pro-
gram of hunger midst riches
While the impoverished farmers of the United
States are being driven to cooie levels by the on
aught of the capitalist class the Republican par
y mocks their misery by stating that "the pres-
lent has insisted upon the interest of the Ameri-
an farmer" i
The president has insisted as he now insists
Is the Republican party and the capitalists insist
hat the small and middle farmers, and the work
rs in the cities should be forced to bear the bur-
en of the crisis.
Against these mocking plunderers only the
nited might Of the toilers avail. A vote for
his party of oppression and misery is a vote for
he system which it represents. Only vote for
he Communist party, for Foster and Ford, and
or the local candidates of the Communist party
vote for our class, is vote against hunger
nd oppression and war