The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-13
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
SENATOR GEORGE SAYS

a1s r,oro ever inclined to extend the power
o;vo, nnder the agricultural adjustment act to
those in charge of its administration, should stop
rou, whom in the face of a PROSTATE industry
which. under the combined effect of recovery pro-
oro,,s 7 on, sneaking of raw cotton, has lost It's
foreign customers, has only one friend left, ana
that IS the American cotton spinner, and when that
spinner is PROSTATE upon his back with mills CLOS
ing in the east and in the SOUTH with an enormous
increase in the relief rolls in both sections of the
country The secretary threatens to use the power
which | am now convinced congress ought never 10
have vested in the hands of any one man or group
of men-the power of taxation the very neces-
sites of life-to raise yet higher the burdens d
the working men of this country, who must use
70 per cent of this product and pay 70 per cent
of this tax.
"Mr President, if the secretary of agriculture
had designedly and Intentionally sought to drive
down still further the price of cotton, ne could
have made no more effective statement. If ne mad
sought to inflict vet heavier burdens upon the
textile manufacturers in this country - the only
customers of cotton now left-he could have used
no more effective language.
81 have no hesitancy in saying that under the
amendment which / offered it would be wise to lift
every processing tax on meat, on bread on clothing
directly from those products, and do it out of the
relief Joint resolution. 1t is the most genuine re-
lief that can be given under that measure. 1t IS
exactly the equivalent of furnishing bread and
meat and clothing to men and women and children
who are hungry for bread and meat, and who have
been robbed of clothing.
ALREADY the number of textile workers who have
been thrown out of work, because of the closing
down of mills east and south, is rapidly approach
ing $4,000 and that means that 100000 people
from this industry alone which ordinarily employs
from 100000 to 100000 workers must go on the
relief rolls. The direct benefit to the relief fund
by retaining these aborers in their accustomed po-
sitons would more than lift the processing tax
paid upon all the American cotton spun annually.
But the secretary says that if the price of cotton
remains at its present level it is more likely the
processing tax will be increased.
How would that help? How could that help?
What is happening is that Mr. Wallace, under the
agricultural adjustment act, is paying benefits to
the farmers. He is paying it to plough up our cot
ton and to kill off our hogs and to reduce our
acreage and to reduce our production, but how is
he doing it?
'He is doing it by asking the American farmer
to sell out his business to sell out MS capIIaI III
vestment. That is what he is doing. | closed out 4
part of my cotton business, and every other Amer-
can farmer has done the same, and the hog ralSers
and the other producers of the country in meas
urabe degree have done likewise. Particularly such
statement is true with reference to any crop
more than so per cent of which must be sold IN
the foreign market. We have sold our farm bust
ness for a mess of pottage, or for one or two or
three years of benefit favors.'-Rock Hill Is CO.
Herald.