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Show PRESIDENT COOLIDCE. We have had presidents who played politics atid those who did not. So far i President Coolidge goes down in his-( his-( tore as one of our f-vatt business president-. Never cnn he be accm-'ed or wtvering or f'ir.chering when it came to vtoing a measure inlndcal to t" e t.eotie of his counU'y, or a bill whir'i had to ride the courts for pvo-per pvo-per interprelaiion. Th.-r" is no quest Irm-- !n' our mind -th:,t had Coolidce been a t.o!ill"il vote f,.t;e,r he wo-id have isn'd the McNary-TIaugen farm bill, a iw'i P't"". w" ich, if pa?ed. wou'd witliout di'i''t baV-e been dcriaied t!nron-!i':iU'!or'.a'. hv th c'.v's. Coo"dg feuie-ly pointed f- t t'e weak points in it rr. tificial pvlcp-fixing provl't'-rs end f'e attempt to tax the entire comr.;unl!v for a selective industry, Because M" its legislative price-fix-in'. tho bill would have tnuned'atelv stimulated an overproduction In the farm products dealt with, ultimately resulting In great wast. and profiteering. profiteer-ing. H would have been tf e first great, ptepning stone for cl'ss leglsbt-t'lon leglsbt-t'lon and all industries would immedi-atey immedi-atey ask for the sale kind of protection protec-tion and supervision. |