Show FARM I RELIEF WITHOUT SUBSIDY The farmer is a producer The miner is a producer The people who render service who vho deal and deliver goods who gather and anc anel distribute news and information who build houses roads and bridges are also producers Those who render professional service such as in law lay health teaching science science science ence the trades art entertainment and recreation are producers All are necessary in their respective ways to the comfort convenience convenience convenience conven conven- culture and general good of humanity Those par parasitical beings who profit by others' others losses are not producers either of material goods or of moral good It is to the elimination of producer non-producer that politics government education tion anc an and organized activity should be dedicated It is to those necessary necessary factors of human welfare and happiness that moral subsidies and legal support should be granted Thus farm relief is the problem not alone of Congress but butof butof butof of everybody Luxury and non-necessity non is everywhere by human interest and patronage and this is one reason th the basic and less and less romantic industries lag behind This is going a long and round about way to express the hope that Congress will iII find some way out for the farmer that is consistent consistent consistent con con- and fair to all other industry Perhaps the farmer has listened too much to Congress and too l little to b business siness experts the farmer as an institution needs a little scolding But Rut he also needs the sympathetic help of all citizens He is the theone theone I one and only one that the world depends upon for physical nance What hat the country depends upon the country should sup sup- port Relieving the thc farmer is not difficult of accomplishment The difficulty lies in extending measures of relief without at the same sanle time granting direct subsidies the latter being contrary to the very nature of equalized government The wonder is that the then farmers have kept their economic equilibrium n 1 as z s well weIl as they Y have The farmers farmer's problem has not been one of wage but of fluctuating prices not questions of hours and work days but of r I J finding markets within marketing time not one of leisure but butone butone one of surplus For the farmers to organize militantly would be utterly foolish No army is needed to march upon the seat of government But to get together on a basis of cooperative marketing marketing marketing mar mar- wherever possible is the first mark of prudence and the first step toward agricultural independence A modern Coxey's army of farmers marching toward one another would be a national national national na na- na- na asset The farmers are now realizing that the policy of the government is to help those who try to help them themselves elves Cooperatives Cooperatives Cooperatives Co Co- Co- Co operatives have solved the In problem in many sections of the coun coun- try I Cooperatives s are springing up in in many places due to the I r necessities of the marketing problem Men l well weIl versed in agriculture agriculture agri agri- agriculture culture are studying as never before The problem of relief has takeno n na a serious aspect sufficient to engage the nation as one great question of the day The great question is can relief be granted without damaging damaging ing subsidy Answer that and you will have Congress adjourning adjourn adjourn- ing in your favor and pinning upon your breast the coveted medal med med- al of honor Ve We are not cap capable ble of answering the question All AIl we can assert is that no no basic industry like agriculture can fail unless the nation fails with it No necessity can encounter an economic death There is a way out |