Evening star., 1936-09-26
.LANDON VIEWS HIT
BY z IN. CABINET.
Wallace and Hull Sharply
Reply on Candidates Agri"
cultural promises" :"
BY the Associated Press.

Speeches Of Coy. ALI NJ. Lsndon
on the Republican agricultural plans
today had drawn two sharply worded
replies from members Of the Roose-
welt cabinet-secretaries Wallace and
Hull.
"The farmers choice this year Is be-
tween promises and action" declared
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace last
night in Q broadcast for the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
He said Landon promises many
things for the farmer" but his SEN
tences are 50 phrased Is to mean little
in terms Of action"
Contending that ninety eight out
of one hundred big bankers" and big
corporation executives are for Lam
don." Wallace asserted:
THE munition makers, oil men,
power magnates, big packers and grain
gamblers are the men who always
have attacked farm programs and who
are now fighting Roosevelt"
The Secretary declared Landon's
method for distributing certain cash
benefits to farmers would foster ex-
pansion Of crops 90 Federal funds for
payments might easily, 60 over .
billion dollars year."
"The plan," he said, "could not
possibly last through two years of
ordinary weather. Some time in the
second year the crash would come"
Landon, Wallace said, would do
away with the soil conservation act As
soon as the 1886 obligations have been
carried out, and, of course. there would
be no production control"
Secretary of State Hull. replying to
Landon's denunciation Of the reciprocal
trade agreements which Hull has been
negotiating. declared the Kansas Gov
ernor's speech on the agreements was
confused, inaccurate and incoherent."
After paying lip. service to the
principle Of foreign trade and tariff
reciprocity" Hull said.s HE declares
his support of principles and methods
for carrying out q reciprocal trade
program which would render it COM
pletely sterile and make 1t thus
sham and fraud"
Wallace srgued the Republicans
ARE trying to lead the American
farmers into the trap Of producing in
expanding quantities for . foreign
market which Republican tariff pol
icies in large measure destroyed, and
which they themselves admit does not
| exist"
Gov. Landon is giving us words
which sound good in . year Of
drought" he added, "but he has /no
plan of action which would prevent
| disaster to the farmer and laboring
man alike in case we should have one
or two years of good weather"
SAYS Plan Wouldn't Last.
DeclaAng Landon had promised
farmers enough cash benefits" to
assure them IAN American price" for
that part of crops used in this coun-
| try, Wallace said this would encour-
age expanded crops which might run
the Federal payments lover q billion
dollars year." Such q plan, he said.
could not possibly last through two
years of ordinary weather"
This time the farmers fate would
be truly appalling, because no polit-
ical party would have the nerve to
giyesthem effective help" the Secre-
tary added. "All political parties
would say-it is political suicide to
give real help to farmers. They won't
stand by you. AL they want Is
promises
During the 20s, Wallace said, the
Republicans used private money,
gathered by the international bank
ers from trusting American in
vestors, to finance the purchase by
foreigners Of our surplus farm prod
ucts.
Nov they propose to give the
Nation more of the same kind Of
thing" he added.
Discussing Landon's views on other
angles Of the farm problem, Wallace
argued that:
Landon's proposed system of Fed
eral farm mortgage receipts is prob
ably unconstitutional in the case of
a commodity like corn which Is not
destined to move in interstate COM
merce."
Landon '1s against the ever-nor-
NAL granary"
"Gov. Landon is against tenancy,
but he has no proposal for doing
anything that Is not now being done
by the Farm Credit Administration
In soil conservation, Landon would
"wipe out" the present "triple-A pro-
gram" and substitute "a program Of
his own"
HE did not say" Wallace added,
whether payments under his pro-
gram would be higher or lower than
the present payments, but he did
indicate that a farmer would have to
prove himself a pauper to get any
payment at all"