GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 873 



American farms to the industrial centers to be utilized in grinding out profits from 

 industry in this great world monopoly of industrial enterprise. 



Let us sum up the facts. First, the Immigration Act of 1903 flooded this 

 country with 12,000,000 immigrants from low- wage countries of middle Europe. 

 Second, an effort was made to keep all these unneeded workers in jobs by making 

 a shorter working day with increased prices per hour. This, of course, resulted in 

 higher prices to farmers, white-collar workers, business people, and professional 

 people. Third, the passage in 1934 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act resulted 

 in reduction of crops and meat production. 



Fourth, the passage in 1934 of special trade agreements and increased imports 

 under these agreements prevented us from realizing that we were far from self- 

 sustaining, while we w'ere being told by our Government that we had immense 

 surpluses of food and fiber. Fifth, the millions of people in our great cities who 

 are not farm-minded have been propagandized into looking across the sea for 

 cheap food and fiber and other raw products. They have been propagandized to 

 forget that high wages and high prices of industrial products are due to special 

 tariff protection which the farmer generally does not share. Sixth, the millions 

 of people in our great cities have been propagandized to look to other countries of 

 the world because this makes possible the carrying out of great international ideas 

 of a few great international families with millions invested'from the Rio Grande 

 to Cape Horn and from high meridian to high meridian. Seventh, these billionaire 

 internationalists, in their attempt to carry out this great international scheme, are 

 but fellow travelers with the internaticnalist crackpots w'ho infest some of the 

 bureaus in Washington. Eighth, these special trade agreements, as they now 

 operate, are but one cog in the wheel of unlimited internationalism which is 

 intended first of all to crush the American farmer. 



We pass a law' in Congress to limit production by American farmers. The same 

 year we pass a law in Congress to flood this country with agricultural products 

 from foreign lands. We burn wheat in the field. We plow cotton in the ground. 

 We throw hogs in the river. And then, what do we do? We turn right around 

 and make treaties to import wheat, to import cotton, and to import horse meat 

 and mule meat from Mexico. Did ever a drunken sailor do anything more foolish 

 than this? 



We create high prices by artificial means of a protective tariff". We increase 

 these artificially high prices by higher wages and shorter hours. We spend $210,- 

 000,000,000 in 2 years to pay for these artificially high-priced products to conduct 

 the war and then, when the farmer asks for a little raise so that he may be per- 

 mitted to do his part toward raising food and fiber, they cry "overproduction." 



The Treasurer of the United States, with all the international gold for a footstool, 

 says the farmer is causing inflation. Bernard Baruch, as he commutes from inter- 

 national offices in New York to the seats of authority in Washington, sends out 

 a parrot-like cry, "The farmer is causing inflation." 



Henry "Aggravating" Wallace as he talks for the edification of these low- wage 

 countries with which we have these trade agreements, repeats the echo, "The 

 American farmer is causing inflation." The Secretary of Agriculture, getting 

 his cue from these internationalists, reechoes the cry, "The farmer is causing 

 inflation." 



This country was founded and set up by men who had courage of individual 

 initiative and the determination to maintain their individuality at any price. 

 If this kind of America is to survive, then the American farmer must survive. 

 When the independent. God-fearing, liberty-loving, and freedom-maintaining 

 American farmer is no more, then the America as we have known it and that is 

 worth saving, will be no more. 



CONDENSED SUMMARY 



1. The United States lavished hundreds of billions of dollars, partially wrecked 

 our national economy and sacrificed much of the bloom of our youth in a world 

 war to destroy totalitarianism in individual countries. 



2. The United States cannot carry on free trade with other countries unless 

 we are willing to reduce the value of the American dollar to 20 cents. 



3. The repeal of the corn laws in England 100 years ago sacrificed and abandoned 

 British agriculture in favor of British industry and British foreign trade. 



4. For a hundred years or more, the working people of Britain have been en- 

 slaved under this antiagricultural policy. The very low wages and low standard of 

 living, necessary resulting from that policy of Great Britain for a period of 100 

 years, finally have resulted in the decadence, the impoverishment, and the insol- 



