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Show IN THE NAME OF THE FARMER It is predicted that the so-called Farm Bloc in the coming session of Congress will include an attack on the tariff schedules in its program unless the Bloc can secure passage of a measure to assure some form of price fixing on farm products by the federal government and establish ment by the government of an agency that shall buy the farmers' export surplus. The whole program is carried on in the name of the farmer when, as a matter of fact, the rank and file of American farmers are not today asking ask-ing for petting and coddling at the hands of the government. The disgusting part of the situation situa-tion is that the farmer is used as a dummy around which political schemes sch-emes are cooked up and fostered onto an uninformed public. The tariff question which should be considered purely from a scientific, business standpoint, is used as a political foot ball and the public pays a trrific price for watching its use in the political po-litical game. |