866 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



time, the administration adopted a policy of high wages anci tariff protection for 

 industry. 



The administration became sold on the idea that the American farmer should 

 be put on an equality with the farmers of South America, Asia, and Africa. 



This could not be done if we should maintain a stable dollar because the prices 

 of labor and raw products were so cheap in other parts of the world that it would 

 be impossible to carry on free trade so long as American money remained so much 

 higher than the money of the balance of the world. 



Consequently, the vast cjuantities of gold were buried in the ground at Fort 

 Knox waiting for the day to come when the taxpayer, who paid $35 an ounce, for 

 that gold, would have the pleasure of giving it back to the international bankers 

 under the title of a World Bank. 



Neither President Roosevelt nor the Congress wouid have the'courage fo have 

 enacted a law providing that industry should be on a protected basis but that 

 agriculture should be on a free trade basis. 



If that had been done, the world would have known about it. 

 The real purpose of the so-called Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act was to 

 manipulate tariffs favorable to industry and unfavorable to raw materials without 

 the administration going on record and without the masses of the people knowing 

 what was going on. 



The truth of this statement is positively proven by the fact that the same Con- 

 gress which passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act to increase our imports 

 of agricultural products also passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act to decrease 

 our production of agricultural products in this country. From 1933 to 1943, 

 inclusive, our imports of agricultural products amounted to $12,786,725,000 and 

 our exports amounted to $8,723,787,000. During these years of the New Deal, 

 our imports of agricultural products exceeded our exports of agricultural products 

 in the sum of $4,062,938,000. 



During the very years, according to the Government's figures, Mr. Henry 

 Wallace and the administration were killing pigs, burning wheat, and destroying 

 cotton and corn. We were importing more agricultural products than we were 

 exporting. 



During the same years, when we were importing more agricultural products 

 than we were exporting, the United States Department of Agriculture was main- 

 taining corps of ine?i in other lands, clearing land, building terraces, putting out 

 trees aiul teaching them how to produce crops to be sliipped to the United States. 

 Even during the war years, when American farmers could not get tractors and 

 other farm eciuipment to produce farm products, ({uantities of this equipment 

 have been going to these countries where the Department of Agriculture has 

 been teaching them how to produce crops to be consumed m the United States. 

 Did it ever occur to you that there was a reason why the State Department 

 should suddenlv become the rendezvous of such men as Mr. Stettinius, of J. P. 

 Morgan & Co.,' Mr. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Co., and Mr. Clayton, of 

 Anderson-Clayton Cotton Co., and other international businessmen? 



The reason is reciprocal trade agreements and the opportunity which the 

 international bankers and businessmen see to use this great country with its 

 tremendous producing ability as a pawn in world finances and world power 

 politics. 



These great international interests have billions of investments from the Rio 

 Grande River to Cape Horn and from high meridian to high meridian as the earth 

 revolves on its axis. These internationalists and their liaison representatives 

 shuttle back and forth between London and Washington. 



Every time Congress is asked to move a man on the checkerboard, the move 

 fits into the over-all plan for a great monopolistic industrial empire of England 

 and the United States, on the one hand, and for a great raw material and agricul- 

 tural empire in the same countries and in all other agricultural countries and 

 islands of the sea, on the other hand. 



These great internationalists have organized the Committee for P>onomit- 

 Development. The outline of their prouram is to develop industrial production 

 to supply nonindustrial countries. Por an industrialized America to supply 

 industrial commodities to nonindustrial countries, it naturally follows that the 

 bars must be lowered for importation into .\m('rica of agricultural products and 

 raw materials to pay for these industrial products. 



1 he Department of Agriculture, the Department of State, the Department of 

 Commerce, the Office of Price Administration, and other Government bureaus 

 were being used by these great internationalists to further their great scheme for 

 world empire. Charles E. Wilson of the War Production Hoard was an adviser 



