Evening star., 1933-11-12
WALLACE WARNS
AGAINST STRIKE
Tells Iowa Farmers Actor
May Kill Sympathy of New
Won Friends.
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$500, 100000 corn-hog production-con-
troll program as certain 10 bring better
prices to the cofn-belt producer. The
responsibility of making it succeed, he
said, rests with the farmer"
He pictured the corn belt as "the
sore spot Of the Nation" but asserted
that until farmers are willing to curb
production and reduce supply, better
prices and improvement in conditions
are impossible. He praised President
Roosevelt's monetary policies but re-
peated warnings that imitation alone"
will not solve the farm problem.
Three Paths to Take.
There are at least three paths that
farmers may take" he said. There is
the path of immediate price-fixing as
advocated by the five Midwestern Gov
ernors there Is the trail already
blazed by the cotton and tobacco
farmers Of the South and the wheat
farmers Of the West; or, finally, there
is the opportunity to Join the holiday
movement and raise hell"
Discussing recent farm disturbances,
Wallace said:
i have been neither surprised nor
shocked by the revolt Of the holiday
folks. s
1T is true that I have never seen
eye to eye with the leaders of the move
ment. But when it has been suggested
that the great powers of the Federal
Government might be used In sub
terranean ways to disrupt the move
ment, have insisted that the best way
to stop this kind of ruckus Is to get
more money into the farmers hands.
The holiday movement is like the
nerve of an aching tooth. You deaden
the nerve only as a last resort. Mean
while, 1t tells us just where and how
serious the ache Is.
Deplores Violence.
"But when you have said that, am
afraid you have said all that can be
said for such movement Violence,
destruction of property and bloodshed
solve no problems.
You can't get more Of the con-
sumer's dollar by keeping milk away
from his children, and you certainly
don't endear him to the cause of the
farmer In the past few months city
people have acquired new sympathy
for the farmers battle for Justice, but
let few more buildings be destroyed.
a few more heads be cracked and few
more milk trucks upset, and greatly
fear that the reaction among con-
sumers will be anything but helpful to
farrnere pepara1ly
Perhaps worst Of all is the division
IN the ranks Of the farmers themselves,
a division that II not being nourished.
tionary forces hostile to agriculture.
Isn't it about time we stopped playing
into the hands of people who are now.
always have been and always viii be
against agrtculture?"
Wallace praised President Roosevelt
as "a man who believes in the farmer"
adding:
Never have the farmers of the
United States had President who
knew as much about farming or who
was as sympathetic to their cause.
IF the administration can be pushed
into doing something which ultimately
proves to be foolish, the reactionaries
can again come into their own. I am
here to tell you that the administration
does not push that easily.
Frankly, I think most of the re-
actionaries are too smart for that sort
Of conniving II they are at all
thoughtful, they must realize that the
conscious fomenting Of discord in times
like these can have very grave conse-
queensland the reactionaries' return
to power might not be one of them.
"I am not suggesting that we dis
courage criticism. This administra-
tion honestly welcomes intelligent criti-
cism from within or without. We never
did CLAIM infallibility.
Neither are we particularly dis
turbed by the personal abuse coming
from men who have long made discord
the basis Of a good livelihood"
Wallace discussed the plan of the
Midwestern Governors, rejected last
week by President Roosevelt. which
called for fixing farm prices at parity
within 80 days and fixing quotas of
production and sales for farmers. WAL
lace said he believed the regimenta-
ton which this plan called for would
be unacceptable to farmers" and as
serted that voluntary cooperation pos
stble under the administrations plans
for curbing production would be more
desirable.
The goal of the Administrations ef-
forts, he said, is to boost farm income
from last years $4,000, ,000, 900 to s11,-
000, 1000, 900, but he cautioned against
hopes of accomplishing this without
consideration Tor the incomes of urban