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THE I. A. A. RECORD i' 



Erase Party Lines . 

 i And Work Together 



West and South Resolve to Back Candi- 

 dates With Chance to Win Who 

 I Are Friendly to Agriculture 



T^HE commoh economic and political 

 A interests of the Mid-West, South, 

 and West were recognized in seven 

 ironclad resolutions adopted at the St. 

 Louis Farm Conference on Nov. 1-2. 

 After endorsing the Declaration of 

 . Principles adopted at l^e conference 

 last year, the resolutions set forth the 

 surplxis-control policy embodied in the 

 McNary-Haugen bill demanding legis- 

 lation in the 70th Congress incorporat- 

 ing these principles. "The farm or- 

 ganizations here represented," stated 

 the second resolution, "serve notice 

 that they will accept no compromise 

 in principle that fails to provide the 

 measure of relief sought by the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill." 



Opposition Cited 



Sources of opposition were cited in- 

 cluding farm crop dealers, speculators, 

 ' and industrial groups "that want cheap 

 foodstuffs regardless of what happens 

 to producers." The United States 

 Chamber of Commerce policy against 

 adequate farm legislation established 

 when Julius Barnes, foremost grain 

 exporter, was president was mentioned 

 as a typical example of a certain type 

 of organized opposition. The letter of 

 Andrew Mellon which 

 frankly stated that "equal- 

 ity for agriculture would 

 weaken the competitive po- 

 sition of American manu- 

 facturers in the field of 

 ^foreign commerce," was 

 named. The attention of 

 labor was called to the 

 steady drift of farm work- 

 ers to the city. 



Fair Administration 



■ The need for a fair na- 

 tional administration re- 

 ceived special attention in 

 the last resolution. This 

 pledged the organizations 

 represented to work for 

 candidates friendly to agri- 

 culture who have a chance 

 to win for "it is very neces- 

 sary to realize that the 

 preservation of the farm- 

 ing industry is infinitely 

 more important than the 

 success of any political 

 party." 



Borah Named 



The motive of Borah of 

 Idaho who was ranked with 

 Senators Reed, Fess, and 

 Bruce on agricultural pol- 

 icy, was viewed with sus- 

 picion. His apparent as- 

 sumption to speak for a 

 group of Republican sen- 

 ators on presidential pol- 

 itics and farm legislation 

 was resented. 



The broken platform 



pledges of both Democratic and Repub- 

 iican parties were cited. 



It was urged that the two vacan- 

 cies on the Committee on Agriculture 

 be filled by farm-minded men from 

 agricultural states, or else left without 

 representation. 



Dr. Taylor Speaks 



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St. Louis Conference 



(Continued from page 1, col. 1) 

 Gov. McMullen's address set forth 

 clearly and completely the cause for 

 which its supporters had met. Most 

 of the other addresses were more or 

 less supplementary to his. 



Banks Full of Money 



An elderly, gray-haired man with 

 a wrinkled but kindly face named 

 George W. Donaghey, ex-governor of 

 Arkansas, called the meeting and pre- 

 sided throughout. 



Mr. Donaghey is a banker at Little 

 Rock. He said that all the large banks 

 are full of money and looking for in- 

 vestment security, and the farmers 

 are clamoring for aid, but haven't 

 any security or collateral to offer. 

 "We're here to make easier the re- 

 turn of the farmer to normal pros- 

 perity," he said. "This is a business 

 man's as well as a farmer's problem. 

 We ought to have their cooperation. 

 Protection must be withdrawn from 

 all or protection must be extended to 

 all alike." He was applauded for that 

 statement. 



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Dr. Henry C. Taylor of Northwest- V 

 ern University, formerly chief of the , 

 Division of Agricultural Economics at ^ 

 Washington, discussed the relation of 

 the tariff to agriculture and showed 

 how the tariff has become inoperative •;. 

 on farm products of which there was ■ 

 a surplus. 



He quoted a man named Sparks 

 who was the first to write on the na- 

 tional distribution of wealth. "Thirty 

 years ago," said Dr. Taylor, "Sparks 

 wrote that the next great struggle 

 would be between the country and the 

 city." 



Col. Clarence Ousley of Dallas, 

 Texas, former assistant secretary of 

 agriculture under President Wilson, 

 scored the Jardine subsidy proposal. 

 He accused the administration of eco- . 

 nomic "color-blindness." "^he Presi- v 

 dent and his advisers can't see the dif- 

 ference between the lush-green color 

 of industry and the sickly blue of agrri- . 

 cultural loss and despair," he said. 



South Needs Aid ^ 

 Col. Ousley was vehement. He was 

 fervent. He spoke with sincerity. He 

 told of the washed hillsides and the 

 decaying cabins of the South. He re- 

 ferred to Wm. Jardine as Secretary 

 of the "Departure" of Agriculture. He 

 took a side-swipe at Henry Ford as a 

 glaring example of successful busi- 

 ness men and leaders in other fields 



who seek to legislate for . 

 farmers and impose their 

 own impractical schemes 

 upon agriculture. 



"We are not powerful 

 enough to overcome our 

 opponents in numbers," 

 he said. "Our job is to ex- 

 ercise our balance of power 

 for the good of the industry 

 we represent." \ m 



Endorse Equalization Fee 



Senators Arthur Capper 

 of Kansas and Arthur Rob- 

 inson of Indiana ple(|ged 

 their support to the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill or one 

 similar to it, in the next 

 Congress. 



Senator Robinson declared 

 that he believed an equal- 

 ization fee absolutely nec- 

 essary that 100 per cent 

 of the beneficiaries of the 

 surplus control movement 

 share the expenses in- 

 volved. 



"I have been practicing 

 law for 18 years," he said, 

 "and in my judgment such 

 legislation will be declared 

 constitutional." 



Other speakers were Col. 

 Stengle, editor of the Na- 

 tional Farm News, Dr. Tait 

 Butler, Cong. H. P. Ful- 

 mer, C. O. Moser, C. V. 

 Truax, and Judge Caverno. 

 Short messages were de- 



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