872 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



these trade agreements from cover to cover and you cannot find where they provide 

 for lowering the tariff on any industrial products that the farmer buys. They are 

 devoted entirely to shipping agricultural products in to compete with the Amer- 

 ican farmers. Raw materials for industrial plants and agricultural products are 

 the only items covered. No finished product for use of the farmer is included. 

 You can look over the hundreds and hundreds of items specified in these treaties 

 and every item they cover is an agricultural product. 



Typical of the products brought into this country under these special trade 

 agreements are cotton, cottonseed oil, flaxseed oil, linseed oil, olive oil, palm 

 kernel oil, palm oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, tung oil, and vegetables 

 of many kinds; buttermilk, skimmed milk, whole milk, cream, dried buttermilk, 

 malted milk, oleomargarine, and other butter substitutes; cheese, baby chicks, 

 geese, guineas, pigeons, turkeys, barley, buckwheat, wheat, corn meal, grits, 

 flour, oats, rice, rye, bran shorts, skimmings, soybean meal, tankage, apples, 

 apricots, berries, cherries, citrus fruits, pineapples, plums, jellies, jams, marma- 

 lades, cow peas, cabbage, and many other vegetables, fruits, and farm products. 

 Horse and mule meat for human consumption from Mexico are also included. 



Most significant is the special trade agreement with Great Britain. Great 

 Britain, next to America, is the greatest industrial country on earth. England 

 produces industrial products to sell in world markets in great quantities. Great 

 Britain also controls many of the rich farming countries of the world. Our 

 special trade agreement with Great Britain provides for the importation into the 

 United States of many agricultural products, strangely enough it does not provide 

 for the importation of any of Great Britain's industrial products, not a single item. 



Some time ago I told you of the over-all plan for a great industrial empire to be 

 matched with a raw materials empire of nonindustrial countries, with cheap prices 

 on all agricultural and other raw products. If you will refer to the Congressional 

 Record of February 8, 1943, appendix, page A486, you will see where Congress- 

 man James H. Morrison, of Louisiana, put these same facts in the Congressional 

 Record. 



The special trade agreement between Great Britain and the United States 

 provides for a competitive market on agricultural products only. It does not 

 provide for any competition between industrial products. This is most illuminat- 

 ing and needs no further proof that these trade agreements are intended to pau- 

 perize the American farmer and reduce him to the level of the farmers of South 

 America and the islands of the sea. 



The fact that these trade agreements were provided for by Congress in 1933 

 takes away from them every vestige of claim that they were a war measure. 

 They were enacted by the same Congress that provided for crop control and cer- 

 tainly no sane man would claim that crop control was a war measure. 



This scheme of international interests to secure cheaper farm products from 

 other lands fits in nicely with the over-all plan of our great internationalists in 

 New York and London. Such great international families as the du Fonts, the 

 Guggenheims, the House of Morgan, and the Astor family have seen their oppor- 

 tunity to go along the same road with these internationalists in Government 

 bureaus to accomplish their purpose in the world-wide picture. 



This, in my opinion, explains the activities of Mr. Bernard Baruch. From the 

 offices of great international banking houses back and forth to the offices of high 

 officials in Washington travels Mr. Bernard Baruch as a liaison man in this great 

 over-all picture of globular international economic and military control. It is now 

 recognized by a great many thinking people that the over-all picture for this 

 great globular empire contemplates a monopolistic industry along the Atlantic 

 seaboard in this country and in Great Britain. A great industrial empire with 

 high prices for industrial products. A world's raw materials empire with low 

 prices. What a picture of wealth on one hand and squalor and despair on the 

 other. 



We have seen that our special trade agreement with Great Britain provides 

 for competition of raw materials in America and in world markets. We have 

 likewise seen that this special trade agreement with Great Britain does not provide 

 for any competition of American and British industrial products in America and in 

 world markets. 



We have seen the United States Department of Agriculture spending the 

 farmer's money, which is deducted from his parity price, to develop the production 

 of agricultural products in Central and South America, in Cuba, and in all the 

 islands of the sea. 



We now see the Department of Agriculture has the brazen impudence to 

 -announce a plan to move a large portion of the farm population that is left on 



