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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Peek Hits Hard In 



Radio Talk On Veto 

 ' Message from KFNF 



Calls DiHimient Must Intemperate ami 

 lU-Hunioreil of Any In History 



ilTEi; » uicfiilly analyzing- aiul cx- 

 *- plaiiiiiivr the 

 efclitlv vct'i-il 



Geo. N. Peek 



nitre 

 V,vo. X. peek, 

 ihairnian of^ the 

 North Central 

 States AKiiiiiltiir- 

 al Conference. 



lauMilied injo a 

 discussion o^_ tlie 

 \-eto message and 

 the political ele- 

 ments involved in 

 his railio talk from 

 Station K FN V . 

 Shenandoah. Iowa. 

 on .June 7. 

 After explaininjr the hill Mr. iPei'k 

 said: '■Tlii> all seems so simple! that 

 you wondei- why the question huv- not 

 heen settled lonp auo. 



"The answer is that Secretary !\Val- 

 lace diii try to >ret the Hardinjj a()min- 

 istration to take definite constri^-tive 

 action, hut lie was ))ushed asido for 

 Secretary Hoover who has beert the 

 real ay-ricultural advisei' and di<-tator 

 of the last two administrations. Hoov- 

 er has had for his advisers the train 

 ex|)orters. dealers in farm coniftnod- 

 ities, millers, and other manufacturers 

 of the farmers' crops. 



Don't Want Anything New ( 



"These men do not want anythinjr 

 to liappen which hy any possi lility 

 niiirht interfere with their businesii and 

 so the farmers have arrayed a>;)ainst 

 them the exchaiiKes, hoards of trade, 

 and I am sorry to say, some of tht l)i>r 

 bankers who finance their niemqers." 



I'iscussinjr the veto message in jren- 

 eral Mr. F'eek voiced the belief: that 

 the President knew l)Ut little aboujt the 

 bill and what it contained. "His i veto 

 messajre proves that this is still the 

 ca.-^e." he s.-iid. "It is a len>rthy (locu- 

 nlent said to be the most intemperate 

 and ill-humori'd of any veto message in 

 our history. It was openly charir^'d in 

 the Senate debate on May 2.5 thajt the 

 President did not himself writel the 

 message and no one in Washington be- 

 lievt's that he did. 



".Many of the assertions in thejvi'to 

 missajre can only be answered hy a 

 blunt statement that they are not true, 

 I'ithei- as economic fact or a.<! intef-pre- 

 tation of the bill. 



eh: 



Adjectives No Argument 



"The use of epithets and the c;^"Ilinfr 

 of names is not arjrument; the>' can 

 mly be answered in kind, and it is 

 l>e>t that such pas.sages be ignored 

 even thoufrh that means ipnorin>r (nuch 

 of the last niessaire which, coniilared 

 with the veto message of FVbriaary, 

 li»27. adds many new adjectives: but 

 no new ideas to the discussion, i In 

 general the veto mes.sage shows; (1) 



RKSOI.l'TION AI)OI'Ti:i) Al 

 j MA.SS MKKTING HF.LD IN 



cii \mpah;n, may .u, k 



P. M., AT COl.I- 

 sr.lM, l')2S 



provisions of the re- 

 .McNarv-Hauiren ! bill. >\ 



HKKKAS 



lack 



'lu- I*resitifiit'>^ rt'rt'Tit veto 

 till' .Mi-Nar>-Haui;«'ii I'i.l «Ii^-- 

 |irt»per uixli-rstatiiliii^ uf and 



i-ltis^'s a lack iif iiriiper uixIcrstatnlliiK uf and 

 vi-iiUiTif symitathy for American ajrriculturf 

 l»y jthf itrcsent ailniiiiistration and its ad- 

 visf^; and 



WHKKKAS. The principles i>f ihis let-isla- 

 I inn are well within the pledk'e uf eimality fur 

 .'lu'ricnltnre set forth in the party platfurni i»f 

 l'.>21. upon which this admitiisi rat inn <-anie 

 mlul t»uwer ; atid 



Wln-.KKA.'-"-. This i.j.dr.' h:i^ I., .ri tr.-alffi! :>~ 

 a -<\t:\\' uf paiirr; 



,\ji\V. THKKKI OHK. 

 That wc. the citizens uf 

 n-.ietitiv: assenihled. antl 

 feel I we can nu lunirer 

 piedlr«-s. We serve nutic< 



UK IT UKSOI.VK.n. 



this set-tiun in mas.; 



re^rardless i^i party, 

 deltend llltun J>arty 

 here and nrtv\ tipuii 

 the Irespuiisihle leaders uf all iiarties uf uiir 

 individual anil c.dlective suppurt only uf those 

 .atiijiilates fur President uf the Uniteil States 

 uhuihave a sympathetic ninlerstalnlini; uf this 

 i/reak cmestiun and whu have the initiative 

 and 'cuuraire lu see that the heitetits of ^rov- 

 .-rtimielital policies are exteniled to all vci^- 

 noni(c ^'ruiii>s of the t^nited Stiites on an c-'inal 

 l.a<i*: 



A^D UK IT FITRTHKR RKSOI.VKD. That 

 :i- ah act t.. secure justice for farmers we will 

 resist hy every honurahle means every candi- 

 date for olTicr from Presiilent duwn tu cuunty 



otn.'i 

 \v. 



^end 

 vri.l 



als whu reftjse to jrive us a snnare deal. 

 ' re»iijest the secretary uf this meetini: to 



: ity uf this residntiun tu each d"de- 



frum lllinids to th. Ret>uhlican an<l Dern- 



.■ral 1 



Nat iunal Cunventiiins. 



W. K. Rietrel. rhairman. 

 V. I). Lewis. 

 .John T. Smith. 

 Kurene Curtis. 



Resolutions Committee. 



that the real Coolidge objection is 

 not against the e(|ualization fee as has 

 been fretpiently stated, but against 

 making the ))rotective tariff operate to 

 enhanc- the jirofits of farm crops of 

 which we produce a domestic surplus; 

 (2) that his interest in co-operative 

 marketing development is i)retended. 

 not real; (o) that in order to support 

 hjs criticisms of the measure the Pres- 

 ident is forced to assume that the board 

 whiijh he alone would appoint would 

 be foolish or criminal in its adminis- 

 tration of the act; (4) that he has no 

 constructive pi'oposal for an agricul- 

 tural policy except the dangerous one 

 that; American farm production must 

 be r^'duced to meet domestic demands. 

 whi(Sh is economically unsound and na- 

 tionally unwise; and (.5) that he is un- 

 willijng to permit the Supreme Court 

 to ijass upon the constitutional ques- 

 tion^ involved." 



The Real Grounds 



Delving into the message Mr. Peek 

 said: "It clearly exposed the real 

 grounds for the Coolidge objections 

 to the .McNary-Haugen bill. For 

 months it has been stated on his be- 

 half that *his real objection was to the 

 e(iuali/.ation fee provisions of the 

 measure. Talk of the equalization fee 

 is only camouflage. 



The speaker denounced the veto 

 message as exposing President Cool- 

 idge'.s pretended interest in co-opera- 



Indiana Farm Bureau 



Protests Cal's Veto 



Use Strong Language 



Must Have Leader to Administer Office 

 In Perfect Fairness 



■' L"'OR the second time we farmers of 

 ' the Missis.sippi Valley have been 

 silent witnes.ses to the e.xercising of a 

 veto privilege that for sheer audacity 

 and a genuine disregard for the rights 

 of a large group of citizens, is jirob- 

 ably the most daring piece of nullifica- 

 tion that the world has witnessed since 

 the infamous episode of Germany's 

 'scrap of jiaper'." declared the In- 

 diana Farm Bureau Federation follow- 

 ing the recent presidential veto mes- 

 sage. 



"We have just witnessed a most as- 

 tonishing iiaroxysm of hate in the mes- 

 sage of veto," continued the Feder- 

 ation. "Fortunately for the country, 

 the farmers have just begun to fight, 

 and we ^re prejiariiTg for the day when 

 we can go to the i)olls and vote into 

 othce some Western man who has cour- 

 age, sympathy, and n desire to be Pres- 

 ident of (lU these United States. Out 

 of the material already offered, the 

 South and the far West can find a 

 leader that we eiin elect and depend 

 upon, who will administer this great 

 otlice in perfect fairness to all citi- 

 zens and to all classes." 



tive marketing development as a sham. 

 "The bill as ])resented to him \vould 

 build co-oi)erative associations," he 

 said. "Mr. Coolidge turned his back 

 upon that bill with its carefully work- 

 ed-out provisions to do the job he ad- 

 mits needs to be done, and through the 

 very agencies which he himself has 

 suggested for the task." 



The Real Question 



The rest of Mr. Peek's talk was de-- 

 voted to amplification and enlarge- 

 ment upon the five points presented 

 above. In closing he said: "The ques- 

 tion which confronts the Government 

 is whether it should take effective 

 steps to correct an injustice to the 

 basic industry of agriculture. Shall 

 etiuality be restored by bringing agri- 

 culture under the piotection which the 

 taiitr law and restrictive immigration 

 give industry and labor — shall the in- 

 etjuality be allowed to persist — rtr shall 

 the inetiuality be removed by dragging 

 down the condition of industry and 

 labor to the present condition of agri- 

 culture? 



"There is practically a concensus of 

 intelligent opinion that the effective 

 lemedy which exists for this situation 

 is involved in the proper control of 

 the surplus supply of farm products 

 and the feeding of them out in re- 

 sponse to demand through devices for 

 orderly marketing similar to the prac- 

 tice in industry." 



Xntr: Comi>lrtr cov'es of Mr. Peek's ad- 

 ilriss man I'*' lutd hif irritiny thf lUinotH Aw 

 rifutfiirat Aattofiatioii^ OUH So. Utarhiirn St., 



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