Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-10-18

to the jobless rolls. Suppose the
RFC folded their tent and called for
payment on the millions advanced to
the businesses, banks and irrigation
districts in this state, and the farm
|scredit administration recalled the
S5l 900 900 already advanced to the
farmers. Suppose then. the Home
Owners Loan corporation shut up
shop and allowed the hundreds OF
distressed home owners to lose their
properties to the mortgage holders.
Suppose the relief authorities halted
operations and thousands of farmers
saw their food and feed supplies
vanish.
let us suppose the government
shut off the food supplies for the
thousands of people In our cities and
let them fend for themselves.
Surely even the blind can see
that IL the government were to with
draw all agencies put in operation
by President Roosevelt and halt
their operation, disaster would not
be far away. Prices would start
cascading. banks and insurance com
panies would topple owe like ten
pins, wages would go down and
hours lengthen and we might not re
cover from the ensuing CONFUSION
in our lifetime"
Speaking particularly of the farm
program as effecting this section
Wheeler had the following to say,
For a long time prices for farm
products have been far out of line
with the price of goods that farmers
buy, while debts and taxes remained
as high as when farm products
brought twice as much. The depart.
ment Of agriculture tells me that on
Jan. | the price OF wheat over the
country averaged on the farm but
31hc a bushel. Then came the
frightful drouth. In an effort to pre-
vent a disaster and to bring about
something of a parity price the adj
ministration has developed the al
lntment plan and checks for slightly
more than $10,0 00, 900 will be issued
to the wheat growers. Now 1t Is true
that these funds have been raised by
processing taxes, but | hope ouf
farmers are not letting our oppon-
ents kid them into thinking they are
paying a large part Of this tax Inc
facts are that some 100000 will
be collected and $10,0 900 900 paid out
in Montana. The entire $4,000, 900.
| might say will not be collected
from Montana farm families"
In reply to Republican critics who
complain that the Presidents pro
gram violates the constitution, and
that American citizens are being
deprived OF their liberties, the sena-
tor issued a strong challenge. The
hope OF tomorrow" he declared does
not contemplate Americans subslst-
ing on charitable relief, and Ameri-
ca half fed and half-clothed, but "a
Their on America with the fullest sat
isfaction Of independence from relief
and with a full contamination OF
every constitutional guarantee OF
life, liberty and the pursuit OF happi.
ness: a reality rather than mere ex-
preston Of noble sentiment
sThe constitution Of the u. S. was
never intended as an iron heel 20
crush the liberties of the people OF
America.
Americans can never complain
that their liberties have been cur
tailed under any of the DEGREES OF
the New Deal.
What liberties actually have been
curtailed? I'll tell you a few. HI
liberty to crush ones fellow human
being under the iron heel Of greed
and avarice: to work young children
in sweat shops; to water stocks and
sell them to an unsuspecting credul
Gus public, to foreclose on homes
and farms: the liberty of grain spec
ulators to buy and control the price
Of grain and other farm commodities
to the detriment Of the farmer; the
liberty of the international bankers
TO control the currency Of our coun.
try; the liberty to pay inadequate
wages and the liberty of great fin
anciers to evade payment of income
taxes, from which ~vanquished liber.
ty. we believe, will arise the where
wlthall to pay for the burden impos-
ed by the New Deal.
"Have any Of your liberties been
curtailed? To the contrary has not
the New Deal brought to you a great.
er degree OF security and economic