362 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



AMAZING RECORD 



Talk about employment? 



If the American farmer had been allowed to produce the amount of agricultural 

 products that we imported, it would have, conservatively, required 15,000,000 

 able-bodied men the entire 1 1 years to have produced these crops and hogs. 



Talk about markets? 



If these 15,000,000 able-bodied men had been employed and had produced 

 that additional $12,000,000,000 of raw products, then the industries of this country 

 would have been short-handed and there would never have been a day that 

 industry would not have had the best market in the world for all it could produce. 



Do not forget that, under the natural economic law, this $12,000,000,000 would 

 have turned into $84,000,000,000 in our national income if the goods had been 

 produced here at home. 



There are, in a rough way, substantially as many people engaged in manufac- 

 turing as there are on the farms. It should be self-evident that a farm worker 

 should be able to buy appro.ximately the output of an industrial worker and that 

 an industrial worker should be able to buy the product of a farm worker. 



When the product of one industrial worker is exported at American prices, it is 

 necessary to import the products of half a dozen agricultural workers from other 

 countries to get pay for these exports. When we import the products of half a 

 dozen foreign agricultural workers, we put a half dozen American farm workers 

 out of a job. When we put a half dozen American farm workers out of a job, 

 then a half dozen industrial workers must lose their American market for what 

 they produce. 



It is an evil cycle which destroys America without doing any good to the balance 

 of the world. 



Only those big international traders such as now and in the last several years 

 who have infested the State Department make any profit out of such trades. 



We hear a lot of talk about international trade being iieces.sary to prevent war. 

 Ask yourself the question, which is most likely to cause war? Is a foreign nation 

 going to be more resentful because we do not trade with them, or if they will be 

 more resentful because we ceased to trade with them after the trade is once 

 established? 



The cold facts of history show that those nations which have engaged to the 

 greatest extent in international trade are the nations who have brought on both 

 World Wars. Let the State Department answer that. 



Every law of the nature of Reciprocal Trade .Agreements Act is either good, bad, 

 or indifferent according to the men who have control of its execution and accord- 

 ing to the policy and program of which such a law is only a part. 



It is, therefore, of most importance that the Congress look largely to the pro- 

 gram and purposes behind the demand for such legislation rather than to the 

 terms of the legislation itself to discover whether or not such legislation will be for 

 the benefit of the masses of the people of this Nation. 



I wish to call attention specifically to the fact that each Cabinet member is the 

 personal choice of the White House and as such is beyond the reach of the people 

 and largely beyond the reach of Congress. 



For this reason the delegation of constitutional authority by Congress to a 

 member of the President's Cabinet should be done with the greatest caution, 

 especially when the power so delegated is of a nature that amounts to the power 

 to enact law. 



1919 TO 1929 WERE CRUCIAL YEARS 



The fact of the matter is that the U.iited States has simply been the fat goose 

 that has been picked by the internationalists over a period of 30 years. 



For almost 70 years beginning in 1837, the British Empire had at its head one 

 of the greatest characters in modern history. 



For almost 70 years Queen Victoria guided the destiny of an empire whose 

 proud boast was "That the sun never sets on the empire of the queen." During 

 those 70 years major wars were kept to a minimum between the countries of 

 Europe by the firm hand of this woman of destiny. 



The royal families of Russia, Germany, Holland, and other nations in Europe 

 were relatives, and some of them descendants of this ruler of Great Britain. 



\\ hen Queen Victoria died at the beginning of the twentieth century and weaker 

 hands took the helm of the British Empire, then trouble began to brew that was 

 to shake the very foundation of the world. 



It was approximately one decade from the death of (^ueen Victoria until the 

 First World War broke in all its furv in 10 1 4. 



