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of them who proposed any of these bills that I thhik are so destructive 

 to our free system of government. I simply meant they were un- 

 American propositions and proposals, and any proposal that brings 

 the American people or any segment of the American people or any 

 American under the complete domination and power of a centralized 

 government is un-American; and if it is not un-American, then I 

 do not Ivnow what our Constitution means and our Bill of Rights 

 means, and I am going to stand on my statement that they are°un- 

 American proposals — any proposal that will bring dictatorship and 

 complete control over any segment of the American people. 



Mr. O'SuLLiVAN. And I want to stand on my statement. 



Mr. Pace. At the same time I think it should be said that the 

 gentleman from Iowa not only criticized proposals made by the 

 Secretary of Agricultiu-c, but he also in the same breath and same 

 classification referred to the legislation passed by Republican Senators 

 and passed by Republican Congressmen, and he treated both of them 

 alike. 



Mr. Jensen. That is right. I put both in the same category of 

 being un-American legislation. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much. 



Mr. O'SuLLiVAN. I would like to question the witness. I would 

 like to ask Mr. Jensen a question. 



Mr. Pace. No; we will have to call the next witness. 



We will now hear from our colleague, the Hon. George H. Christoph- 

 er, from the Sixth Congressional District of Missouri. 



STATEMENT OF HON. GEORGE H. CHRISTOPHER, A REPRESENTA- 

 TIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI 



Mr. Christopher. Mr. Chairman, as you have said, I am Congress- 

 man George H. Christopher, from the Sixth District of Missouri. 

 I represent 11 of the greatest agricultural comities hi the State of 

 Missouri. My folks out there produce beef, pork, meat, eggs, and 

 wheat; and, like everybody else, we are interested in production and 

 so we are vitally interested in agriculture. We are vitally interested 

 in the income agriculture receives in the United States. 



American farmers, with the exception of the fisheries, the mines, 

 and the oil wells, produce all the new wealth that is produced in the 

 United States. 



When a calf is born out on my farm, that calf was never there 

 before; that was the first time. When I produce a steer, that is the 

 first time that steer was ever in this world, too. 



When my friend over here produces a bale of cotton, that bale of 

 cotton has been created by his labor out of the soil and the air and the 

 sunshine and the fertility that he puts in that soil. 



Now there is a must, and that must is to maintain the income of 

 30,000,000 people who live on American farms, who are the producers of 

 new wealth; and in spite of anything we can do, when their buying 

 power sinks, they go out of the market, they go out automatically; 

 but as they go out they expand their acreage and they expand their 

 production and attempt to stay on that farm and live like Americans 

 ought to live. 



When agricultural prices sink, they plow up that unused 40 in 

 bluegrass, which is so rough it never should have been plowed, hoping 



