The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-06-18

In agriculture and domestic ser.
vice and the self employed while
imposing heavy tax burdens upon
all. The so-called reserve funds es-
timated at $4,000, 100000 for old
age insurance Is no reserve at all,
because the fund will contain moth
to pay, while the taxes collected in
the ruse of premiums will be vast
ed by the government in reckless
and extravagent political schemes.
Labor
The welfare Of labor rests upon
increased production and the pre-
vention of exploitation. We pledge
ourselves to:
Protect the right Of labor to or
ganize and to bargain collectively
through representatives of its own
choosing without interference from
any source.
Prevent governmental job hold
ers from exercising autocratic pow
ers over labor.
Support the adoption Of state
laws and interstate compacts to
abolish sweatshops and child la
Dor, and to protect women and
children with respect to maximum
hours, minimum wages and work.
ing conditions. We believe that this
can be done with the constitution
as 1t now stands.
Agriculture
The farm problem is an econom-
ic and social, not a partisan prob
lem, and we propose to treat 1t &C
cordingly. Following the wreck of
the restrictive and coercive AAA,
the New Deal administration has
taken to itself the principles of the
Republican policy of soil conserva-
ton and land retirement. This &C
ton opens the way for non-politi-
can and permanent solution. Such
solution cannot be had under a
New Deal administration which
misueses the program to serve par
tisan ends, to promote scarcity and
to limit by coercive methods the
farmers control over his own farm.
Our paramount object it to pro-
tect and foster the family type of
farm, traditional in American life
and to promote policies which will
bring about an adjustment Of agri-
culture to meet the needs Of DOM
este and foreign markets. AS an
emergency measure, during the ag-
ricultural depression, federal ben
eft payments or grants-in-aid
when administered within the
means of the federal government
are consistent with balanced bud
get.
We propose:
Ito facilitate economical pro-
duction and increased consumption
on a basis Of abundance instead OF
scarcity.
PA national land-use program,
Including the acquisition Of aban-
doned and non-productive farm
lands by voluntary sale or lease,
subject to approval Of the legisla-
tive and executive branches of the
states concerned, and the devotion
of such land to appropriate public
use, such as watershed protection
and flood prevention, reforestation
recreation, and conservation OF
wild life.
tThat an agricultural policy be
pursued for the protection and
| restoration of the land resources
designed to bring about such bal
ance between soil-building and soil
depicting crops as will permanent
ly insure productivity, with reason
able benefits to cooperating farm
ers on family-type farms, but so
regulated as to eliminate the new
deals destructive policy towards
the dairy and livestock industries.
ITO extend experimental aid
to farmers developing new crops
suited to our soil and climate.
$40 promote the industrial use
of farm products by applied
science.
6-To protect the American
farmer against the importation of
livestock, dairy, and agricultural
products, substitutes, thereof, and
derivatives, therefrom, which will
depress American farm prices.
ITO provide effective quaran-
tine against imported livestock,
dairy and other farm products
from countries which do not impose
health and sanitary regulations
fully equal to those required by
our own producers.
$40 provide for ample farm
credit at rates as low as those en-
joyed by other industries including
commodity and livestock loans, and
preference in land loans to the far
mer acquiring or refinancing a
farm as home.
eTo provide for decentralized
non-partisan control of the farm
credit administration and the elec-
ton by national farm loan associa-
tions of at least one-half of each
board of directors of the federal
land banks, and thereby remove
these institutions from politics.
10-To provide In the case of ag-
ricultural products of which there
are exportable SURPRISES, the pay
ment of reasonable benefits upon
the domestically consumed portion
Of such crops in order to make the
tariff effective. These payments
are to be limited to the production
level of the family type farm.
Ito encourage and further
develop cooperative marketing.
12-To furnish government as
sistance in disposing of SURPRISES
in foreign trade by bargaining for
foreign markets selectively by
countries both as to exports and
imports. We strenuously oppose So
called reciprocal treaties which
trade off the American farmer.
13-To give every reasonable as
sistance to producers in areas suf-
fering from temporary disaster, so
that they may regain and maintain
a self-supporting status.
Tariff
Nearly 60 per cent of all imports
into the United States are now free
Of duty. The other 40 per cent of