Show THIS WEEK EC la in at VM CRA W diw farm r i arm slumps lead declines every national depression or recession we have had has been preceded by a farm slump and every sharp decline in farm income has been followed by a business decline and increased unemployment that Is the way it happened in the again in the and in the late moa to mention only the most recent in washington tills this week ou can find many people who think it it id happening again in ift the there are others who alik I 1 tills Is has been a mere coined counci dence that there Is not necessarily essa rily any connection that it just happened that way they scoff at arguments that depressions are farm farin led and farm fed tills Is 14 1 the ll 11 e sixth year of a far arm m price and income decline cline e that tegan began to in 1992 1952 three years ago a farmer from missour missouri only recently elected to congress stood up on the floor of the house and made a spee speech cit the other day that hat fanner rep C george christopher re minded his lils colleagues of that speech 1 I said at alt that time lime lie he recalled that you could 19 start art a depression on tile the american aric tarin farm but you could not keep it there that it would break out and go to town then it would go on oil to the cities the ilie only charge brought against tile the farmer fanner Is that perhaps lie he Is doing ills his job 2 or 3 percent too well they say we are producing a surplus decry big city coneless man that hat comes to tile the floor of tills this house should get down on ills his knees every night before lie he goes tp bed and thank god ond and tile the american farmer that we do produce a surplus 10 ifa guarantees ahot that even though ills his folks in lie e city may get out oui of a job find and have to live in breadlines bread lines and soup up kitchens agala egal tt willell which forbid there will be bread in the breadlines bread lines and the soup in the soup coup kitchens will not be too thin now I 1 come to another question v e q done our job we well I 1 end and delivered to society and our government what we owe to society and our government what does our government a d society owe to us they owe us equality of purchasing power it is not right that industry and labor and the professions should give a dollars worth oj of goods good and services and receive a dollars worth of food and tiber fiber and receive only 80 cents the farmer does not ask for a mili subsidy sidy he does not ask for a gift he does not ask for government coddling all the farmer asks for and all he has ever asked for Is that when he delivers a dollars worth of tood and fiber to the market they pay him a dollar for it and not 80 0 cents producing the food and fiber we need Is the farmers job tile the american farmer is the most efficient in the world in the past 10 years factory production per man hour worked has increased 28 8 6 per cent but farm production per man hour has in creased 83 8 per cent this thill country produces produce 50 billion worth of raw materials each year of that amount about 20 billion comprises ores coal oil and gas fish and forestry products and 30 billion of it is in agricultural so products prodie amor amon aha ther other jl hinga the the Arri eriza farmer produces 3 out of every 5 worth of raw materials produced in the united states state some job for 12 per cent of the population id say |