September, iqj<> 



BETTER FRUIT 



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For President 



Warren G. Harding 



For Vice-President 



Calvin Coolidge 



The Republican Party 



and the Farmer 



YOU farmers of America have more at 

 stake in this election than any other ele- 

 ment in our citizenship. 



You have borne more than your full share 

 of the burdens of public waste, extravagance 

 and mismanagement. 



Tou want a change. 



Tou want this change at Washington be- 

 cause the present national administration has 

 singled out yours, the biggest of all national 

 industries, as a target for a price fixing pol- 

 icy which has limited the return for your 

 output, while leaving you exposed to the ex- 

 actions of profiteers in every other line of 

 production, distribution and speculation. 



You Have Been the Victim 

 Tou have been told what you could charge 

 for your staple products, you have been sub- 

 jected to all sorts of restraints, exactions and 

 annoyances, while there has been no limit to 

 what others might charge you for food, cloth- 

 ing, machinery and other necessities of your 

 occupation. 



The result of this unwise, unsympathetic 

 policy, while harmful to the farm producer, 

 has not been helpful to the consumer. Pro- 

 duction has been curtailed, speculation in food 

 has been facilitated, and that expansion of 

 the great farming industry essential to Amer- 

 ica's future has been halted. 



Make the Farm More Profitable 

 The Republican party by its platform and 

 the utterances of its candidates, is pledged to 

 a sympathetic, practical, helpful attitude to- 

 ward American agriculture. It promises a con- 

 structive program which will make the farm 

 more profitable and therefore more produc- 

 tive. 



The Republican party is not a class or sec- 

 tional party; its policies are intended for the 

 upbuilding of the whole nation. But it be- 

 lieves that it is essential to the general wel- 

 fare that the American farmer, whose in- 

 dustry is the base of our national prosperity, 

 should be stimulated to larger production 



through an assurance to him of a larger share 

 of the values which his own labor and en- 

 terprise create. 



The Democratic platform reaffirms the 

 tariff-for-revenue-only policy which will open 

 the American market to the invasion of cheap 

 farm products of foreign lands (the resultant 

 of cheap labor) when shipping becomes avail- 

 able. It promises no relief from the price fix- 

 ing and other farm policies of this administra- 

 tion, or remedy for the violent fluctuations in 

 farm product prices which have caused the 

 farmer such heavy losses. 



Pledges of the Party 



Here is what the Republican platform and 

 the country-bred candidate say on the issues 

 of special interest to the farmer: 



Practical and adequate farm representation 

 in the appointment of governmental officials 

 and commissions. 



The right to form co-operative associations 

 for marketing their products, and protection 

 against discrimination. 



The scientific study of agricultural prices 

 and farm production costs at home and 

 abroad, with a view to reducing the frequency 

 of abnormal fluctuations, and the uncensored 

 publication of such reports. 



The authorization of associations for the 

 extension of personal credit. 



A national inquiry on the co-ordination of 

 rail, water and motor transportation, with 

 adequate facilities for receiving, handling and 

 marketing food. 



The encouragement of our export trade. 



An end to unnecessary price fixing and ill- 

 considered efforts arbitrarily to reduce prices 

 of farm products, which invariably result to 

 the disadvantage both of producer and con- 

 sumer. 



The encouragement of the production and 

 importation of fertilizing material and for its 

 extended use. 



The extension of the federal farm loan act 

 so as to help farmers to become farm owners 



and thus reduce the evils of farm tenantry. 

 and also to furnish such long-time credit as 

 farmers need to finance adequately their larger 

 and long-time production operations. 



Revision of the tariff as necessary for the 

 preservation of a home market for American 

 labor, agriculture and industries. (Note that 

 the pledge to the farmer is just as specific 

 as to labor and capital.) 



Harding's Endorsement 



Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican 

 nominee, in his speech of acceptance took 

 advanced ground on behalf of agriculture. He 

 said: 



"I hold that farmers should not only be per- 

 mitted but encouraged to join in co-operative 

 associations to reap the just measure of re- 

 ward merited by their arduous toil." 



"Our platform is an earnest pledge of re- 

 newed concern for agriculture, and we pledge 

 effective expression in law and practice. We 

 will hail that co-operation which will make 

 profitable and desirable the ownership and 

 operation of small farms and which will fa- 

 cilitate the marketing of farm products with- 

 out the lamentable waste which exists under 

 present conditions, 



"A Republican administration will be com- 

 mitted to a renewed regard for agriculture 

 and seek the participation of farmers in cur- 

 ing the ills justly complained of and aim to 

 place the American farm where it ought to be 

 — highly ranked in American activities and 

 fully sharing the highest good fortune of 

 American life. 



"Becoming associated with this subject are 

 the policies of irrigation and reclamation, so 

 essential to agricultural expansion, and the 

 continued development of the great and won- 

 derful west." 



Mr. Harding p dg - federal co-operation 

 with state governments In building and im- 

 proving farms-to-market roads rather than 

 ,1 highways, to cheapen and facilitate 

 the quick shipment of crops. 



Send for a free copy of Senator Harding's address in which he discusses at length present day problems of the farmer. 



REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. Auditorium Hotel. Chicago. 



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