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Show Sen. Bennett Says GOP 'Real' Friend of Farmer Senator Wallace F. Bennet told Beaver County residents Thursday that 'if the small farmer has been 'gobbled up' -it occurred during Democratic years." Senator .Bennett addressed a large crowd at Beaver, following follow-ing informal appearances in Minersville and Milford. "During the years of Democratic Demo-cratic control of our agricultural agricultur-al policies,'' the speaker said, "the average size of Utah farms doubled, and the number of farms of over 1,000 acres also doubled. This trend is ample evidence that Democratic policies poli-cies were not really designed for the small farmer. ."Under the rigid price support sup-port system of the Democrats, ch,ecks to big farmers in the midwest frequently ran into the fhundreds of thousands of dollars. dol-lars. This is why Adlai Stevenson, Stev-enson, back in 1954, admitted that 'the old system (of high rigid supports) benefitted least the farmers who need help the most.' "We must remember that a vote for the Democrats is a vote for a return to this system," Senator Bennett said, "since the party has pledged to restore jhigh rigid supports if it gains control of congress. "The Republicans, on the other hand, have not been concerned con-cerned just with the big mid-western mid-western wheat farmer, or the Southern cotton farmer, but with the over-all farm problem. And the stockmen know that they have had more considera-! tion from the Republicans than the Democrats. "For example, the Wool Incentive In-centive Program, passed by the Republican 83rd Congress, has brought Utah sheepmen more than $2,500,000 in just one year. "Republican concern with the need for a more comprehensive predatory animal control program pro-gram has resulted in substantial ) increases in funds for this purpose. pur-pose. , "Additional funds for the i'orest reseeding program have helped both cattlemen and sheepmen. "In the dairy industry, the removal of government shackles nas resulted in a healthier mar-Ket, mar-Ket, with prices going up 20c per hundredweight." |