The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-15

| the people of this country dependent
upon farmers, to point where they
will now insist that the congress of
the United States pass legislation to
protect farmers on their farm and
against being foreclosed and thrown
off that farm when the bad days again
return. They positively will return
and that assuredly will raise havoc
and destroy hundreds of thousands
of farm families unless foresight and
vision and courage and determination
act effectively now to protect the
farm families against that inevitable
day.
The Farmers Union can take credit
for initiating many valuable pieces of
legislation. We have led the fight for
an improved farm mortgage system,
which has largely put an end to fore
closures of mortgages under the Fed
eral Land Bank system, and that had
some effect on the policy of insur-
ance companies holding farm mort
cages. We initiated and carried the
fight for Crop Insurance; we initiated
and carried the fight for the Com
modify Exchange Act, which put an
end to wholesale rackets and scan
dals in the trading pits dealing with
wheat, corn, cotton, etc. The old
gamblers are gone because of our
work in securing the Commodity Ex-
change Act. We initiated the first
program under the Triple GA" which
was known as the Wheat Program.
We, alone of farm organizations, made
the fight to preserve the Farm Sc
curity Administration and the Stamp
Plan program.
We have long list of good jobs
done in the field of national legisla-
ton, and we got them done because
the President of the United States
was friendly to them, because the Sec
rotary of Agriculture was friendly to
them, and because some of our SEN
ators and representatives from the
farm states were friendly to them,
and, particularly, because congress
men from labor districts were friend
y to them.
Now, we ask labor and farmer
minded men in congress to help us
complete the job of writing a sound |
arm credit act at Washington, D. G. |
We want a farm credit act that will |
'evolutionize the mortgage system,
hat will revolutionize the chattel |
mortgage. system, that will revolu-
ionize the production credit system
or farmers, so that farmers will be
and aided to stay on the
and, even though their wages amount
o mere pittance. Somehow or
ther, the father, the mother and the
hildren, with COW, SOW and a
len, along with their other work, will
ontrive to exc out an existence if
he policy of the national government
ncourages them to stay on that farm
their home sweet home" We must
ave a national awakening to this
erious problem; we must prepare in
hese days against the evil days to
ONE.
The argument is made that if we
ave good prices, we have good farm
1come and we can then pay off debts
hat sounds good, but under the pres
MT group of laws, there is absolutely
o assurance of fair prices and in
ONE. Prices and income today de-
end upon just two things. One of
lem is the willingness of the con-
ress to appropriate over one billion
ollars year in gratuities to farmers
5 downright subsidies, with the farm
IS arms clear to the elbow into the
ederal Treasury. We accept that
ntil we can get sound device
1opted in national legislation to pro- y