Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-23
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DEATH TO THE AAA
(The Country Press)
Brook Park. MINI.

The summary execution of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act by the
majority opinion of the United States
Supreme Court is not remarkable
when one considers the antecedent
lives OF the justices and the effect of
their decisions cannot be estimated
until 1t is seen whether new legisla-
ton, within the Constitution. can
bring about what the AAA aimed at.
The Country Press is not inclined
to blame a court for the opinion of
its judges. regardless of what that
may be. Every American knows that
the government is divided into three
divisions and that it is given to the
Supreme Court to pass judgment upon
every statute. If the judgments rem
cered do not conform to popular opin-
ion the remedy lies in amending the
Constitution or awaiting the newt
able alteration of the judicial person.
mel.
The chief concern of this newspaper
is in the effect that the sweeping
judicial pronouncement will have
upon the welfare of the farmers of
the United States. We have asserted
time and again that American agri-
culture has been mistreateC in this
country since 1921.
We never had any idea that the
AAA system of reducing the produc-
tfon on the farms, in country where
millions of people were suffering for
want of sufficient food, would restore
prosperity to the farmers and enable
them to save their homes and farms
from mortgage foreclosure. 1t was
altogether a temporary proposition.
1t has caused delay in bringing about
effective agricultural legislation. The
few dollars which each of the farm
ers were receiving for letting their
lanCs lie idle was of course of some
help to them in this depression.
However, the whole trouble has been
under consumption and not over pro-
duction. The fact that our farmers
have been bled white for years is
we'll established The enactment of
the AAA was supposed to be an effort
to readjust an economic situation that
was unjust and intolerable. Whether
it was the best effort is an academic
question but whether the decision of
the Supreme Court has rendered i'm
possible further effort is the vital
issue now.
Farmers of the United States should
not fail to impress upon every polit-
ical candidate their demand for full
economic parity, for an income in pro-
portion to that of other classes, for
the right to use the powers of gov
eminent to protect them as we'll as
industry and to give them the advan-
tages that flow to industry through
production and price control.
1t is maintained by thousands of
the best informed farmers in every
state in the Union, that there never
has been brought before congress
during the past 90 years, but one real
and effective bill for the permanent
relief of agriculture, and that is the
Frazier-Lemke bill to re-finance all
farm mortgages. That bill has been
pending in congress for the past two
years. II Has DccU DIOChcu ny dU-
ministration leaders from being
brought onto the floor and giving
congress an opportunity to vote on it.
Administration leaders and high-pow-
cred lobbyists are now working hard
in Washington to prevent congress
from having an opportunity to vote
on the Frazier-Lemke bill at this ses-
sion.
Any one scheme that will put more
dollars in the farmers pockets and
save their homes from mortgage fore
closure will suit us. Thus far we
have failed to see any effort of this
sort being made by the present ad-
ministration. Things have been pro-
longed while the farmers are losing
their farms anG homes by the thou
sands.
The national welfare requires that
farm purchasing power be sustained
at a ratio higher than that yet at
tanned. Farmers who vote right, can
have much to do with restoring to
themselves all that they have been
denied for many years.