Evening star., 1936-01-17
By the Associated Press.

/ have recently ueUdIeu VdIlOuS
realities Of the New Deal at Oakland,
New York and st. Louis. I propose
now to explore it further, particularly
its agricultural policies and their ef-
feet on the whole people.
The New Deal has developed a new
technique in debate. They set up a
glorious ideal to which we all agree
Then they drive some
where else or into the ditch. When
we protest they blackguard us for
the glorious ideal. And they
that all protesters are the
tools Of satan or Wall Street. When
we summon common sense and facts
they weep aloud over their martyrdom
for the ideal.
The New Deal explanations on their
agricultural policies exceed thirty mil
lion words. You will not expect me to
turn the light into every dark corner
in thirty minutes. Some Of the rugged
prima donnas who have directed these
policies have resigned and said worse
things than.I would say. One quality
of the old regulated individualist was
team work.
Right at the outset let us get some
things perfectly clear. There is an
agricultural problem. 1t concerns the
entire Nation. 1t concerns the happi-
ness of 100000 homes. Our country
will not have reached either full moral
or economic stature until confidence
and hope shine in these homes. The
problem is still unsolved.
Aside from the fragrant flouting OF
the Constitution. the New Deal farm
method had within it destruction both
to the farmers and to the Nation. A
new program Is necessary. 1t Is now
in the making. The Nation has a
right to insist that it must be effective
and 1t must be based upon sound
principles.
Subject Is Divided
Into Five Parts.
shall debate the subject in five
directions.
Part l will be the reasons why the
farm question is of national interest.
hope this part will be emphatic.
Part 2 is a few words upon the
causes OF the farmers troubles. hope
this part will not wholly spoil the
stock in trade of many politicians, for
they have to live also.
Part is what the New Deal Is doing
to the farmer as a citizen, along with
all other citizens. These are the things
to avoid in the future. I hope this
part will not be too sad.
Part 4 is what the New Deal has
done to the farmer in his farming
business. This is also sad.
Part S consists of some discussion
OF a new program. 1t may shock those
who believe in doing nothing Tor
human ills. 1t may shock those who
believe that all healing medicine comes
of the collectivist brew.
In all parts there are remarks on
what the New Deal has been doing to
the whole structure Of human liberty
and American institutions in the guise
of farm relief.
Each part has unpleasant features
to somebody. However, my position is
such that approval by politicians and
many others who live by the sweat OF
the farmers brow Is immaterial. II
this country is to be saved as a decent
place for the farmers children and all
our children to live in ordered liberty
and faith of the future, we have lot
Of unpleasant truth to face. In the
long war for right thinking, falsehood
often wins the first battle. But truth
always wins the last-if the Nation
survives in the meantime.
PART I.
Farm Relief Used
as New Deal Cover.
President Roosevelt, on December
9th at Chicago, properly stated one
reason why the plight Of the farmer
is an issue which concerns all OF the
American people. He said, Farm
prosperity cannot exist without city
prosperity, and city prosperity cannot
exist without farm prosperity" Every
President since George Washington,
every public man, every economist and
every school-teacher has said the same
thing. 1t is vitality true. even if it is
not news. But the President omitted
to state other reasons why his farm
policies are an issue vital to the whole
American people.
The first is that the urgent need OF
farm relief has been used as a cover
to impose the New Deal philosophy
upon the American people. That is
comprised of government by individ-
uals in place of a government Of laws.
1t comprises goosestepping the people
under this pinkish banner of planned
economy. That was tried under the
N. r. A, but the Supreme Court halted
it early. 1t has had a longer march
under the A. A. A. Step by step the
New Deal agricultural policies ad-
vanced from cajolery, with a gentle
rain of checks, to open coercion. Men
who planted on their own farms and
sold in their own way the product
which God and their own labor give
them could have been sent to Jail for
doing just that. That is not liberty.
That Is collectivism.
The second reason the President did
not state was that those ideas of pro-
duction control revolve upon planned
scarcity instead of the plenty upon
which America alone has made prog
ress. To stop the production of so, ,000,-
600 fertile acres Is not progress. That
also concerns the whole people Civili-
zation has made progress solely through
producing more and more of varied
things. The whole history of human
ity has been struggle against famine
and want. Within only the last half
century America achieved a triumph
in this age-long struggle by the crea-
tion of a system which at last can
produce a plenty for reasonable
living for all of us. We have not solved
the problem of its distribution, but in
this plan Of scarcity we are surrender
ing the very foundations of human
hope.
The third reason was that the proc
essing tax levied to support this pro-
gram bore most heavily upon the
Is, ,000, ,000 workers homes. It was an