Evening star., 1948-09-19
the farm is the support program OF
Governments labor greatest importance to the FARMER
noicv Orisinated by Democrats.

manufactured goods on the farm is
due to this Governments labor
policy.
Called Plain Hokum.
That's plain hokum. It's an old
political trick. IF you can't con-
vince them, confuse them But this
time it won't work.
The farmer and the worker know
that their troubles have been COM
ing from another source.
They remember one plain fact.
Never once during the great crises
of the past so years have the Wall
Street Republican administrations
lifted finger to help the farmer.
Wait a minute-they did once. They
gave you farm board. That was
their great contribution.
How we'll you must remember the
depression of the 1930s. The Repub-
licans gave you that greatest OF all
depressions-when hogs went down
to 3 cents, and corn was so cheap
you were burning 1t for fuel.
Cites Boom Bust Cycles.
All through this century the
American farmer and worker have
been the victims of boom m-and-bust
cycles-with the accent on bust. And
they have suffered alike in these
misfortunes.
How many times do you have to
be hit on the head before you find
out what's hitting you? It's about
time that the people of America
realized what the Republicans have
been doing to them.
Why is it that the farmer and
the worker and the small business
man suffer under Republican ad-
ministrations and gain under Demo-
cratic administrations?
I'll tell you why. 1t Is a result
of a basic difference in attitude be-
tween the Democratic and the Re-
publican Parties.
The Democratic Party represents
the people. 1t is pledged to work
for agriculture. 1t is pledged to work
for labor. 1t is pledged to work for
the small business man and the
white collar worker.
The Democretic attitude puts
human rights and human welfare
first.
But the attitude of the Republi-
can gluttcns of privilege is very
different. The big-money Republic
can looks on agriculture and labor
merely as expense items In a busi-
ness venture. He tries to push their
share of the national income down
as low as possible and increase his
own profits. And he looks upon the
Government as a tool to accom-
plish that purpose.
Cold and Cunning, He Declares.
These Republican gluttons OF
privilege are cold men. They are
cunning men. And it is their
constant aim to put the Govern
ment OF the United States under
the control of men like themselves.
They want return of the Wall
Street economic dictatorship.
You have already had a sample
of what a Republican administra-
ton would mean to you. Two years
ago, In the congressional elections,
many Americans decided that they
would not bother to vote. Others
thought they would like to have
change. And they brought into
power a Republican Congress-the
notorious do nothing" Republican
sOth Congress.
Let us look at the results OF that
change. This Republican Congress
has already stuck a pitchfork in the
farmers back.
They have already done their best
to keep price supports from working.
Many growers have sold wheat this
summer at less than the support
price, because they could not find
proper storage.
When the Democratic admins
tration had to face this problem in
the past, the Government set up
grain bins all over the wheat and
corn belts to provide storage.
Bins Needed Again.
Now the farmers need such bins
again. But when the Republican
Congress rewrote the charter OF
the Commodity Credit Corp. this
year, there were certain lobbyists In
Washington representing the specu-
lative grain trade.
These big-business lobbyists and
spectators persuaded the Congress
not to provide storage bins for the
farmers. They tied the hands OF
the administration. They are pre-
venting us from setting up the stor-
age bins that you will need in order
= get the support price for your
in.
When farmers have to sell their
wheat below the support price be-
cause they have no place to store 1t,
they can thank this same Repubii-
can Congress-the Congress that
gave the seculative grain trade a
rake-off at your expense.
| But the Republican reactionarles
are not satisfied with that. Now
they are attacking the whole struc-
ture of price supports for farm prod
ucts.
/ This attack comes at time when
many farm prices are dropping and
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