Evening star., 1936-01-10

believe that the balanced welfare OF
agriculture is essential to the general
welfare. To speak plainly about OBJ
structionists, I am sure that most
business men and consumers are
friendly to the farmer, but there are
certain small but powerful cliques
which have steadily fought all efforts
on the part of this Government and
preceding Governments to extend
even a modest aid to agriculture.
Some of these obStructionists to
the agricultural welfare, as it relates
to the general welfare. hope and be-
lieve the recent decision means the
end of all effective governmental in
terest in the, farm problem.
Others are willing to buy the
farmers off temporarily with unsound
measures. A familiar method of the
opposition is to split the farm groups
among themselves.
wherever the obStructioniStS to the
future welfare of agriculture and the
nation may be found, no matter how
openly or how obscurely they may
burrow in the service Of special inter-
ests and outworn principles, they ought
to be challenged.
Obstructionists Assailed.
"This seems a suitable occasion to
throw the spotlight of challenge upon
them in the name Of agricultural well
fare and the general welfare. These
obstructionists will be found in all
parties from the extreme left to the
extreme right. They will be found in
all regions and classes, but, of course,
they represent minority.
"I know they cannot speak for busi-
ness men generally. Of the hundreds
of encouraging kilograms that have
come to us this week an astonishingly
high proportion are from country
bankers, merchants and other inde-
pendent business men. 1t is up to all
who are constructively minded to push
forward in the name of agricultural
unity for the sake of national unity
in the long run"
Wallace said the Government Of
the Nation does have profound con-
cern with the welfare of agriculture"
and that the national welfare is iden-
tical with those of the great economic
groups which comprise the whole
people.
All fair-minded men. regardless of
political party, Wallace said, know
that farm welfare must be preserved.
"Only small minority of the
thoughtless," he told the farm leaders.
"hailed the recent Supreme Court de-
cision as meaning that the Federal
Government no longer can be con-
cerned with the economic welfare of
agriculture in the United States"
Fears Too Big Income.
The Secretary warned against ef-
forts of some people who, he said,
might seek to mold a farm policy
which would give agriculture share
of the national income so large as
to unbalance our national economy.
Likewise, he warned against efforts
of others who were more interested
in welfare of particular political
party than the welfare of the
farmers"
THE gravity of the present situation,
is really made more ominous by the
improvement since 1933," he said. "It.
may lull some of us into forgetting
that basic problems remain unsolved.
For it has always been the temporary
and immediate favorable market situ-.
alton which has made it difficult for
farmers to prepare for and ward OF
the disasters of the future"
Wallace said it was the fear Of
new depressed farm prices, which
brought heavy majorities favoring ad-
justment OF acreage in crop referenda
held this year.
Voices Faith in A. A. A.
"It is unfortunate" Wallace said,
that the agriculture program could
not have gone on uninterrupted
believe that at the rate Of progress