Show Q GO 0 P farm plan Is still obscure 0 no o light liblit on what Is offered for farmers million homes are saved for owners by EARL GODWIN A great deal washington depends on what gov alfred M landon says he is going to do for the farmers of america so far political observers here at the nations capital have not yet been able to discern what it is that the G 0 P platform offers to agriculture different from the program of the preceding three years it is known too that the republican propaganda machine which is one of the largest and i most effective ever organized is not going to clarify the G 0 P formula for perfect life on the farm until it has to the republicans I 1 learn are depending on the campaign of personal bonal hatred which some of their roost most expert prisoners poison ers have been fomenting it if they can hate roosevelt out of office they will not have to specify what it is they offer to rural and agricultural america meantime at this writing no less a disgruntled farm leader than george peek who went off the new deal reservation and was believed to be headed for the landon camp sulks in his tent at moline illinois and says that the farmers of america are not going to be stirred to revolt by any platform generalities from anybody either landon or roosevelt there is a terrific hullabaloo going on though to influence rural america away from roosevelt and for landon great sums of money are being spent on this process which seems to me like making a great noise on the edge of say a herd of sheep when people begin to think this thing through they will realize that for years farmers came to Vas washington hington and have gone a way away with promises and nothing else but when they came to the roosevelt front door they got their program enacted A definite specific program which they themselves helped formulate as a result farm income has tremendously increased farm finances have been aided these are specific things which are not to be hidden bidden by smokescreen smoke screen apropo ganda then too farm leaders and many farmers have a distinct con 4 ness of the fact that governor landoas Lan dons political chances are fa ii i i bored by the same old crowd which y has been fighting farmers for years 0 a t G 0 P FARM POLICY despite all that the liberty league says its membership favors landon prepared some of the hate roosevelt poison and if you will pick out a liberty leaguer ill show you a man who will spend a lot of time hating roosevelt and financing the opposition unless landon changes it by one i of those right about face maneuvers I 1 of his the republican agricultural t policy is designed to accomplish two t t things gs first line up farmers behind f a high protective tariff which will extend to industry and eventually ruin the farmer as it has always done second to put the government into the business of saying just what and how much of a crop shall be exported at what price and ito i to what country that is the ulti alti 11 mate result of the idea of despos ing of surpluses by bargaining for 11 G foreign markets selectively by countries both as to exports and imports this republican proposal i is copying the worst phases of european nationalism which has led to the present mess in the old world the experience is that this policy i reduces trade and makes ill will second it needs a government b bu j reau for every crop a bureau 1 which selects the exports dictates the imports and practically puts 2 the farm under the heavy hand of government dictation to an y lie vable extent it will not work in J j america what will work and is working is ji the freer trade arrangements by i which we and our neighbors are i doing more business and growing friendlier warnings against importing too much livestock etc are loaded with this hate roosevelt poi son watch out tor for it e 0 0 FARM POLICY Roosevel ts farm policy reaches out a long way from home because it is of the same piece with his 5 good neighbor policy which has ier won him and the united states the respect of the world and which has not inot drawn a single shot from the frantic sharpshooters of the landon liberty league old guard I 1 suppose there never was an equal to the situation here we have a 5 dent who is being daily hated to a V point where you would think someone would choke to death and yet none has yet assailed him for his foreign policy reason it is in line with the best american traditions i and exactly in harmony with the state of mind of the american people today it is a measure of statesmanship roosevelt has done away with h president Coolid favo favorite I 1 e p policy 0 1 c Y of sending the unit united ed stat states marines r i n e to collect money for the bankers ankers in 1 some little country where aher our buc aers have been bee at work and by this roosevelt has won the respect of the southern republics and has helped make the western continent one cohesive barrier against world destruction by mad dog dictators of europe roosevelt ended president hoovers policy of getting into european affairs we are attending to our own business and when we have something to sell or buy any of our neighbors in the world we dont have to carry a gun or charge them a ridiculous toll when they come in the eff effect act is better feeling less strain and more rade instead of less other parties and candidates do not seem to realize we have any foreign interests or contacts 1 I 1 would certainly not want this country to be presided over by governor landon in the event of a world crisis he reversed himself on foreign matters suddenly within three months he announced that he favored a world court back door to european embroilments embroil ments because the last three republican presidents favored it what a small reason for something so vitall vital then later the republican convention declared against our adherence to a world court and brother landon promptly acquiesced what does he really know about it WHAT GLASS FORGOT I 1 listened with amazement the other day when senator carter glass beloved and venerable democratic leader in virginia orated at a patrick henry celebration and went so far as to twist poor old patrick into a stubborn reactionary who would have disapproved the new deals beneficent program of saving farms and homes by putting the nations credit to the useful function of re financing millions of mortgages of course patrick henry died many years ago and we have a habit of massing into one cohesive party all former patriots of wh whatever at political stripe and carter glass has forgotten that the ame american rl i patriots who wrote the constitution were rather conservative and were writing the constitution with an eye on private property at a day when the red flames of revolution were lighting up the european skies just as at present why patrick henry was too much a radical even to attend the constitutional convention conventi oril it was too reactionary to suit him and he roust must be revolving in his grave today in anger at dear old carter glass using his liberty or death reputation to blast at the new deals greatest maneuver which saved millions of families from losing their homes carter glass now seventy ning for reelection election re to the senate senate from virginia will have no opposition of any importance he is virginias gif pride and joy but its hi high time he stop trying to pose as progressive gres sive in anything he was at one time the money trusts greatest foe because he slammed head on into that financial oligarchy headed by the elder morgan and beat it to a frazzle the sign of his victory being the original federal reserve act that is as far as carter has gone today he ranks with the late uncle aoe joe cannon for complete ism and worship of the status quo it is important to realize that senator glass and his younger colleague senator harry byrd forhez governor of virginia and brother of the famous antarctic explorer dick byrd are leading eastern democrats of high order and great prestige tig e and both of them are of the opinion that the new deal can be reformed from within ill give em credit for that they are not the sorehead al smith take a walk variety but they represent a fast disappearing element in democracy which is proved right now by the defeat of a harry byrd henchman in in the virginia primaries for the house representative darden a byrd democrat is defeated by a publisher named hamilton a strong progressive new deal democrat and beaten decisively 0 0 0 MILLION BULLION HOMES SAVED A million urban homes were saved for their owners through the operation of the home owners loan corporation which is a function of government utilizing public credit for personal needs senator glass thinks that this is coddling the financially unwise but there is more than one side to the story the homes were saved and by so doing the owners were ere in better condition to meet their taxes and actually a quarter of a billion dollars in municipal taxes began to pour into the flat treasuries of busted cities we forgot that in these days of improved business but in the latter days of the previous administration a man had to pass on the other side of the street if he saw the tax collector the result was that most cities were broke and p poverty 0 verty stricken with such P poor credit that they buy even the necessary supplies cities which had no credit could not borrow their bonds slumped As you know city bonds are bought largely by trust companies and insurance companies and because of the rugged individualism of of the former era and the inability of the average householder to meet his mortgage obligations and taxes the existence of our safest financial institutions was threatened we were close to crumbling when roosevelt took office and began to utilize the tremendous natural financial and credit resources of the country for the benefit of the average man and thus built up credit and faith from the very 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