The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17


hay If it came to test some time, under scien-
tifc conditions in some laboratory at the depart
ment of agriculture it might be found that the
farmer no more resist the temptation of hay
fork and mess of new-nnown hay than natural
born spel-bnder resist the suggestion of pine
table and water pitcher.
Farmer Is Very Fair Match
NEVER, in any of the orations serious
y essays the subject is any consideration given
to the fact that in the matter of cupdty larceny
the honest farmer is very fair match, pound for
pound, for the average of the cities Yet, only
few years ago. farmers were swapping land at in
tated prices which they knew to be much higher
than its agricultural earning powers, with pre-
cisely the same motive in mind which animated
the urban citizens who gambling on margin
in the stock market.
The important difference has been that when the
honest hayShaker found that his acres having been
bought at extravagant prices with the motive of
easy money in mind, could not support themselves
in crops, he squawked to the government to buy up
part of bad bet
The city citizen, never having learned to squawk
in unison, and lacking such compelling representa-
ton as the farmers enjoyed in the persons of GER
tain celebrated senatorial hayshakers took his losses
in comparative quiet He kicked himself three times
around the block for having been damn fool and
took it all out in being at the bankers not the
government.
Not until the hay-shaker, by repeated grabs at
the treasury had put the idea into his head did the
II the treasury such soft touch for the farmer,
maybe he could chsel off few shilings for himself.
He's a Real SquaIUker
DUT not even yet has he had the gall to suggest
- that the United States treasury as a matter
of common justice ought to pay him an ADJUST
ment between the quoted price of Radio common
when he bought 1t in the summer of 1929, which
would be somewhere around $500 a share, and the
price of the same at this time, which is 67s.
And it still is somewhat beyond the range of his
nerve to set up squawk that the government ought
to condemn AND dismantle certain factories whose
operation created a deplorabe surplus Of manufac-
tured goods which would correspond to the pig and
cattle condemnation and blowing under programs.
And So of course he hasn't had the effrontery
to ask that the former employees of these factories
be paid government wages for not working in them.
The farmer is paid for not farming in order that
surplus farm stuff may vanish and the city people
shall have to pay higher prices for agricultural
products. But if you to propose that the fac
tory hand should be paid to refrain from work in
order tha.the honest hayShaker should have to pay
higher prices for hay forks and overals, the farmer
would emit terrific squaWk. In fact, the price of
overallS did increase by few cents little while
ago and he did emit terrific squawk.
All this is aside from the fact that the hay
shaker also the who insisted for thirteen
years on the retention of prohibition in the Con-
Stitution at loss Of eight ten billion dollars
the treasury He very fastidious about the
sort of money which he received from the United
States treasury. He wanted part of the wages
of sin.
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