Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-21


Beautiful" but >. Old Contucius, he
say: "bohee."
were a Democrat President, on the
theory of the best brains and ex-
perience for the job, Mr.. Wallace
would be my candidate for the job
he now holds. But I wouldn't let
him have his way and I would tact
fully suggest that we find other
places for many of his associates or
advisers = possibly poking smoke
through holes in doughnuts.
Both Glenn Frank and Tom Dew
ey disclosed that they don't know
anything about the farm problem.
After careful study of their offer
ings, I am inclined to believe that
they don't even suspect anything
about it. What they have given out
could have been said by Herbert
Hoover and much of it was said by
him in 1882 and earlier-with dis
astrous results. They suggest to the
farmer that he ought to return to the
fostering care that, the Republicans
gave him in the seven years before
1888. They might have added ''since
the Civil war; If they knew the
workings of farmers minds, they
would know that their stuff is like
cheese offered a mouse imprisoned
in cheese baited trap. That mouse
didn't want any more cheese.
The burden of both their songs is
that all that is needed to help the
farmer is to help industry, and that
what he needs most is high tariff.
We have got to help industry-or go
the way of Hitler and Mussolini. But
tariffs do not and can not protect
the farmer on his surplus crops.
They are a subsidy paid to industry
by an impoverished agriculture
which simply cannot and will NOT
stand it any more without counter
vailing subsidy.
Why man who is considered al
all solely because he is New York
gang-busting district attorney, has
to try to sell himself in Nebraska
as hired farmland is beyond mel
Both Confucius and regular farm
ers say: 'bohee!"
What farmers need is free and uni
restricted production and sale Of
their products and an outright subj
sidy to bring their prices for wha|
we consume in this country up II
absolute ''parity." l have no brie
in logic for the "parity' fornul
although I invented it in 1921 TO
sheer lack of anything better. Blu
if the whole country accepts tn
justice and fairness of it-as seem
to be the case, why should Their
be so much obfuscating converse
ton and so little direct and forth
right promise or action?
SHARING POVERTY
WASHINGTON Suppose it wer
true, as this administration says
that, as all governmental debt hay
gone up by an indefinite amount
above 20 billions-private debt has
gone down by an equal amount. II
isn't true, but if it were true, what?
1t means a more equal distribu.
ton of poverty, sharing of ou1
debts rather than our credits, e
greater burden on the have-nots anc
restriction of abundance in ev.
erybody's life.
The whole nation, rich and poor
alike, is responsible for the public
debt-every wage, income, pension
and piece of property of any kind is
in hook for it.
1t can be retired only by taxes OF
default. The former is burden or
every family budget in the nation
including. the unfortunates on re.
lief or on the DOLE The latter is
catastrophe bearing with equal dis.
aster on the whole population.
The poisonous doctrine that only
the rich pay has been exposed over
and over apain