Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-19 | Page 9 | Smith Vague on Farm Issue, Work Claims

Smith Vague on Farm Issue Work Claims WASHINGTON Sept Se 19 Ar- Ar Chairman Work Vork ot of the tho Republican national committee in a statement today declared Governor Smiths Smith's remarks in Omaha last night on tIre the agricultural problem were based On misquotations and that the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate carefully avoided saying whether or 01 not he favors taxing the farmer and whether lIe favors putting the government into bu buying selling and price fixing o of agricultural pro Governor Smiths Smith's speech last Jast night is to a considerable degree bas d Upon misquotations or dis- dis o of quotations from President President dent Coolidge Secretary Hoover Hoovel rind d tire the Republican platform Dr Work said By omission or of con con- text ISO he gives an entirely perverted r presenta l n of these statements I DISPLAYS IGNORANCE Governor Smith dIsplays re re- Ignorance o of some fundamental funda funda- mental facts Ho He tates that th thea l farmer Is buying buying- in a protected market and selling Jr JI markets that enters Into his farm except that h lid himself prod produCes ces is hid behind a tariff wall It is supposed to function for him but it does not are aro the words he used Later on Governor Smith gives as illustrations o of the the- therise rise In price ot of harvesters nd binders lIe He is apparently oblivious ot of the fact that all harvesting machinery is on the tho freO fre list He further uses shoe manufacturing as an Illustration In InI face of the fact that shoes are also I on the free list I CandIdate Smith carefully avoids I stating that h he is for the tion fee although he says lie he has hai a a. square four plain program Ito He enunciates the principle which lie he says lie ho finds in the McNary-Hau- McNary gen gem bill but which not the principle principle prin- prin ciple over which tIre the battle has been ought fought for tire past four tour years That Is' Is whether the government shall impose a tax on the farmer and shall in order to carry canoy out the itself in the buyIng buy buy- Ing and selling and price fixing of agricultural products All AU ot of this Governor Smith avoids What hat the country would like Jike to know is whether or not Governor Smith meets tIre the real issue here as asto as' as asto to whether the federal government Is tO impose this taa upon the tho farmer farm farm- er and whether he stands for tire the government ent fixing he price in buying buying buy buy- ing and s selling farm produce that are necessarily a consequence ot of any such attempt by the federal government