Show THE FARM PROBLEM newspaper comment on the passage of the mcnary haugen bill by congress and its veto by president coolidge has been wide and varied as is alwa always ys the ca case when there is honest opinion on both side of a question it can be stated in all fair fairriest riess that the gre great at majorey of those alio w ho voted for the bill sincerely believed it a good thing for the farmers of the country just as those who voted against it were of the opinion that it was unsound and would injure rather than help the entire country including the farmers there had never been any question as 3 to where president coolidge stood on the subject and even those who wanted him to sign the bill agree in his honesty of purpose and above all in his real courage in vetoing the bill and indeed the courage displayed by the pres president adent wis was the best kin kind d it is possible to have the courage of ones convictions practically everyone in the country wants want the farmer prosperous for the simple reason that we know his adds to the general prosperity of the country president coolidge certainly wants to help the agricultural industry of the country and he was ras raised on the farm and 1 knows something about the problems of rural life but the president believes believe q as do many other sound statesmen that the bill which he recently vetoed would hurt the farmer fanner rather than aid him and the president wrote a lengthy and straightforward message setting out the reasons for his convictions vict ions no the mcnary haugen bill is vetoed it is quiescent as an issue for several months at least unless there should unexpectedly be a special session of congress in the meantime many plans will be advanced for helping the farmer fanner one of the plans we are apt to hear a great deal about is that one advanced by the free traders for destroying our present system of protection this is a plan on which all farseeing far seeing americans will frown farmers and city dwellers alike it is difficult to see how low loN lowering vering the tariff will help the farmer fanner the things which he uses use exclusively clu are already on the free list and farm products already coming in into the country from the outside pay more tariff than any other kind of commodity what the farmers wants is to get rid of liis his surplus if the tariff is lowered and several million men thrown out of employment the demand for farm products will be diminished in the great market in which the farmer already sells ninety per cent of his products there is neither rhyme nor reason in the plan advanced to aid I 1 the far fanner nier by reducing the tariff |