The Washington times., 1936-01-17
HOOVER FLAYS
FARM POLICY
COERCION

NVENNIVN
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. II U.N.S0
The Roosevelt Administrations
agricultural program had been
ikened today to that of Bolshe-
Wiki Russia.
Former President Herbert
Hoover, in a Scathing attack on
the Administration farm program
here last night, warned "our coun-
try has been following step by step
the road through which these
millions of people in foreign coun-
tries lost their liberties"
He charged the program COM
prises housekeeping the people
under this pinkiSh banner Of
planned economy" He said:
"Step by step the New Deal
agricultural policies advanced
from cajOIery with a gentle
rain Of checks to open coer-
ciOn.
Men who planted on their
own farms and sold in their
own way the product which
God and their own labor gave
them could have been sent to
jail for doing just that. That
is not liberty. That is c0Ilec-
tiVism."
FLAYS CROP PROGRAM
Lashing at the Administration
crop reduction program he de-
clared.
ITO stop the production Of so
million acres is not progress.
Civilization has made prog
resS solely through producing
more and more of varied things.
The whole history of humanity
has been a struggle against
famine and want.
''Within only the last half
century America has achieved
a triumph. by the creation Of
a system which can. produce
q plenty for a reasonable living
for all Of us.
1--WE have not solved the prob
leb Of its distribution, but in
this plan of scarcity we are sur
rendering the very foundations
Of human hope.
HITS PROCESSING TAX
In vigorous terms the ex-Presi-
dent Rayed the Administrations
processing tax, declaring that
this levy bore most heavily upon
the Is million workers homes"
by increasing the cost of living.
He said:
ct was an undeserved bur
den to those women strug-.
Cling to free their men and
their children. But the worst
Of that scheme was that it
set boiling the witches caldrOn
Of class conflict of town against
the farmers. This tax should
never be revived"
Mr.. Hoover argued that the
turning" of the world depression
in June and July OF 1882 wit
messed a rise in agricultural prices
and an improvement Of more than
20 per cent in the farmers dol
lar" He continued:
Then came the era Of great
fear.
Fright over the coming Of
the New Deal Skidded the cOun-
try into the money and bank
panic. The President said The
mechanics of civiliZatiO have
come to a dead STOP Many q
driver who has had bad skid
thinks that.
NThen began the magic of the
New Deal. And they repeated
each mistake of the Farm Board
and added a big idea. That big
idea is that you can catch an
economic force with a police
man."
FARMS MUST PAY
Mr.. Hoover criticized President
Roosevelt for choosing 1.-The culmi-
nation of that era of the great
fear" as the starting point for
comparative statistics. He said:
eff he (the President) would
90 back few months into 1892,
before the great fear started. he
would find the prices were 80
to 100 per cent higher than
those he quotes. And they were
in 1OO-cent dollars. And even
then they were only at the
turning of the greatest depreS-
sion in history.
'sHiS quotations look like an
effort to warm the nation over
cold glass chunks in an illumi-
mated CRATE"
The former President, speak
ing in the metropolis of a vast
agricultural area, warned his
audience that this torrent of
waSteful spending, unbalanced
budget and debt will be paid by
the farmer as well as all others"