The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-30

farmer needs or wishes to be cod
died, or that he asks for undue
help. It is necessary because the
needs of great nation require that
it's food producers shall always
stand upon a social and economic
plane in keeping with the nationa,
Importance of their serviae.
The present administrations eff.
forts to produce this result have
not been successful. Payments un-
der the triple-A did help to tide
farmers over a difficult period. But
even before it was ruled out by the
Supreme Court, the triple-A was
rapidly disorganizing American
agriculture. Some of it's worst eff
fects continue. BY it's policies the
administration has taken the Am
erican farmer out of foreign mar
kets and put the foreign farmers
into the American market. The loss
of markets, both at home and
abroad, far outwheighs the value OF
all the benefits paid to farmers.
Worse than this, from the
standpoint of the public, is the fact
that the administration, through
it's program of scarcity, has gam
bled with the needed food and
feed supplies of the country. II
overlooked the fact that Mother
Nature cannot be regimented.
The time has now come when
We must replace this futile program
with one that is economically and
socially right.
THE wealth of our soil must
be preserved. We shall establish
effective soil conservation and
erosion control policies in con-
nection with a national land
use and flood prevention pro-
gram-and keep it all out of
politics.
Our farmers are entitled to
all of the home market they
can supply without injustice to
the consumer. We propose
policy that protects them in
this right.
Some of our farmers, depend
ent in part upon foreign markets,
suffer from disadvantages arising
from world disorder. Until these
disadvantages are eliminated we
propose to pay cash benefits in or
der to cushion our farm families
against the disastrous effects of
price fluctuations and to protect
their standard of living.
The American people, now as
always, are responsive to distress
caused by disasters, such as the
present drouth. Our platform re-
fleets that spirit. We shall fulfill
it's pledge to give every reasonable
assistance to producers in areas
suffering from such temporary af-
flictions, so that they may again
get on a self-supporting basis.
Our farm program as a whole
will be made to serve a vital ma
tional purpose.
1.-THE family type of farm has
long constituted one of the cherish
ed foundations of our social
strength. It represents human val
ues that we must not lose. Wide
spread ownership of moderate-sized
tracts of land was the aim of the
Republican homestead act. This
conception of agriculture is one
phase of the general principle that
we stand for-preserving freedom
of opportunity in all walks of life
THE benefits which will be paid
under our program will 60 no
higher than the production level of
the family type of farm.
Another matter of deep concern
is the welfare of American labor.
The general well being of our coun-
try requires that labor shall have
the position and rewards of pros
perity to which it is entitled. !
firmly believe that labor has the
right to protect this position and
to achieve those rewards by organ
izing in labor union. Surely the his
tory of labor in the United States
has demonstrated that working
conditions, wages and hours have
been improved through self-organ-
ization.
THE right of labor to organize
means to me the right of employ
ees to join any type of union they
prefer, whether it covers their
plant, their craft or their industry.
II means that, in the absence Of a
union contract, an employee has an
equal right to join a union or to
refuse to join a union.
Under all circumstances, so
states the Republican platform,
employees are to be free from any
interference from any source,
which means, as I read it, entire
freedom from coercion or intimida-
ton by the employer, any fellow
employee. or any other person.
THE government must maintain
itself in the position of an umpire
First, to protect the public inter
est, and second. to act as a media
tor between conflicting groups.
One of the greatest problems of
this country is to develop effective
methods of Cancellation.
Taking a dispute, after 1t gets
into a tangle. and rushing it to the
doorstep of the President is a bad
way to handle. labor situation or
any other situation.
I'm international affairs, also, the
Republican party has always work
ed for the advancement of justice
and peace. Following the early
tradition of our country, 1t has
consistently urged the adjustment
of international disputes in accord
ance with law. equity, and justice,
We have now again declared our
continual loyalty to this principle
Republican presidents sent dele
gates to The Hague conferences
and one of them took the leading
part in the termination of the Rus
so-Japanese war Another Republi-
can president called a conference
which, for the first time, produced
reduction and limitation Of arms
on a wide scale. Still another led
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