The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-18


by increasing our economic en-
cheney.
The Republican party gives its
promises to the farmer and its
allegiance to those who exploit
him.
Since 1882, farm income has
been doubled; six million farmers,
representing more than 30 per
cent of all farm families, have
participated in an effective soil
conservation program; the farm
debt and the interest rate on farm
debt have been reduced, and the
farm foreclosures have been dras-
tically. curtailed; rural highways
and farm-to-Inarket roads have
been vastly improved and extend
ed; the SURPRISES on the farms
have been used to feed the needy;
low cost electricity has been
brought to five million farm peo-
pie as a result of the rural cleo
IRRIGATION program; thousands of
impoverished farm families have
been rehabilitated; and steps have
been taken to stop the alarming
growth of farm tenancy, to in
crease land ownership, to miti-
gate the hardships Of migratory
farm labor.
We pledge ourselves:
To make parity as well as soil
conservation payments until such
time as the goal Of parity income
for agriculture is realized.
To extend and enlarge the ten
ant purchase program until every
deserving tenant farmer has a
real opportunity to have farm
of his own.
To refinance existing farm debts
at lower interest rates and on
longer and more flexible terms.
To continue to provide for adj
justment of production through
democratic processes to the extent
that excess SURPRISES are capable
of control
To continue the program of re-
Mobilization of farmers who need
and merit aid.
To preserve and strengthen the
ever-normal granary on behalf Of
the national defense, the consum-
er at home and abroad, and the
American farmer.
To continue to make commodity
loans to maintain the ever-nor-
NAL granary and to prevent de-
structively low prices.
To expand the domestic con-
sumption of our SURPRISES by the
food and cotton stamp plan, the
free school lunch, low-cost milk
and other plans for bringing sur
plus farm commodities to needy
consumers.
To continue our substantially
increased appropriations for re-
search and extension work
through the land-grant colleges,
and for research laboratories es-
tablished to develop new outlets
for form products.
To conserve the soil and water
resources for the benefit of farm
ers and the nation. In such con-
servation programs we shall, so
far as practicable, bring about
that development in forests and
other permanent crops as will not
unduly expand livestock and dairy
production.
To safeguard the farmers for
eign markets and expand his do
nestle market for all domestic
crops.
To enlarge the rural electriflca-
ton program.
To encourage farmer-owned and
controlled cooperativeS.
To continue the broad program
launched by this administration
for the coordinated development
of our river basins through re-
clamation and irrigation, flood
control, reforestation and soil
conservation, stream publication,
recreation, fish and game protec-
ton, low-cost power, and rural in
duStry.
To Extend Crop Insurance.
To encourage marketing agree
ments in aid of producers of dairy
products, vegetables, fruits and
speciality crops for the purpose of
orderly marketing and the avoid
ance of unfair and wasteful prac-
tees.
To extend crop insurance from
wheat to other crops as rapidly as
experience justifies such extern
sion.
To safeguard the family-sized
farm in all our programs.
Finance Program
To finance these programs ade-
quately in order that they may be
effective.
In settling new lands reclaimed
from desert by projects like Grand
Coulee, we shall give priority to
homeless families who have lost
their farms. AS these new lands
are brought into use, we shall
continue by federal purchase to
retire from the pillow submarginal
lands so that an increased per-
centage of our farmers may be
able to live and work on good
land.
These programs will continue to
be in the hands of locally elected
farm committees to the largest ex-