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9, 1935-PART ONE.
received from taxes which fall more
heavily upon wealth.
A suggestion comes from some
sources that farm aid might well be
based on cooperation by the farmers
in long-range planning for the pro-
lection of the fertility of the land
which they cultivate. After all, 1t Is
pointed out, the land has very great
and important value to future genera
tions. II 1t Is used up, worn out, by
the farming methods Of the present
owners or the owners Of the imme-
diate tomorrow. 1t will be of no value
to the descendants Of these farmers.
Scientific rotation Of crops, calculated
to keep the land fertile, might, 1t Is
said, be one of the concrete demands
upon farmers If they are to receive
Government benefits.
May Change Program.
1t Is by no means beyond the realm
Of possibility that some such plans
may commend themselves to the
Roosevelt administration. Indeed,
there Is reason to believe the admin
istration already is giving careful
thought to the possibility of improving
and changing its farm program, get
ting away from the theory of crop
curtailment as the principal basis for
Government benefits.
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of the export bounty plan as q substi-
tute for the A. A. A. and crop curtail-
ment, the question arises. where are
the exports to be sold? In recent
years, high barriers have been reared
by foreign nations against American
agricultural exports. Foreign markets
for American produce have been enor-
mously curtailed. Can these markets
be regained by dumping American
wheat and other farm exports at low
prices into foreign countries? Coun-
tervailing duties against such Amer
ican exports might readily check the
export bounty plan and leave America
holding the bag, without in effect CIV
ing the American farmers much bene-
fit in the matter of higher prices. One
OF the problems to which the Republic
! ans must give earnest study Is the
matter Of regaining foreign markets,
If they are to back an export bounty
plan.
The other great issue Of the coming
campaign is the unemployment of the
| millions Of unemployed The Roose-
welt New Dealers have sought to re-
lieve this unemployment condition
| through the N. r. A., with its shorter
work week, and through public works
Of many kinds. The N. r. A. has
been declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. The spending of bill
lions of dollars on public works has
given employment to some of the un-
employed, but it still leaves millions
out of work and on relief. 1t also
has caused tremendous rise in the
public debt with the promise Of great
ly increased taxation upon those who
do work. What substitute for the
N. R. A. and the public works program
have the Republicans to offer?
AIUDicm Up 70 ln0uStfy.
The unemployment problem is one
not only for the Republican party, but
for industry itself. If it is to be
solved, the Republican leaders say
and so do the Democrats-private in
duStry must take up the slack. The
Republicans argue that improved con-
ditions can be brought about by assur-
inO hlISinaSS {e
more hampering and controlling leg
islation, that there is to be no more
tampering with the currency, and by
elimination Of great governmental ex-
penditures. All of this may be true.
but it must be put into more concrete
pledges by the Republican party If the
issue is to be dealt with effectively.
AS the campaign advances the
Roosevelt New Dealers will point again
and again to what was done under
the N. r. A. to get industry going
again and to give more employment.
As they say to the farmers, Do you
want higher prices for your produce?
they will say to the industrial workers,
Do you want higher wages?
The Executive Committee Of the
Republican National Committee has
this week completed a meeting de-
signed to work out plans for an active
campaign against the New Deal. 1t
was pointed out by Chairman Fletcher
of the committee that it was not the
part Of the Executive Committee, nor
Of the National Committee. to formu-
late programs and platforms for the
party. But the Republicans sooner or
later must face the fact that they will
have to meet two main issues-farm
aid and greater employment for the
workers.
Harrison E. Spangler. Republican
national committeeman for Iowa. who
has just been authorized by the Exec
utfve Committee and Chairman
Fletcher to take charge of the Re-
publican Western headquarters in
Chicago, announced before he left here
Friday that he planned to open those
headquarters October Is. From them
will be conducted in large part the
drive to win back the Western farm
ers to the Republican party. 1t is
expected that before long Republican
replies to President Roosevelt's FIRE.
mont address will be forthcoming.
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