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vency of the British Empire an has further resulted in the present so-called Labor 

 Government of Britain. 



5. As Great Britain, with humbled pride, retires from its time-honored pedestal 

 of world leadership, the United States steps in to assume that world leadership 

 with all the responsibility that such leadership carries with it. 



6. Just as Great Britain a liundred years ago deliberately destroyed its 

 substantial agriculture in order to become a great international trading country, 

 in like manner the United States today, under the influence of millionaires in the 

 State Department, international bankers, "crypto-Communists" and Com- 

 munists, attempts to launch America as a great industrial international trading 

 country. 



7. To do this, America finds, just as England found a hundred years ago, that 

 it must choose between national agriculture and international commerce. 



8. If the international millionaire club known as the State Department , "crypto- 

 Communists" and foreign labor leaders who have lost their "crypto" are permitted 

 to carry out their nefarious, infamous, and traitorous schemes, then the greatest 

 Nation on earth will also be embarked on the path of decay and fall. 



9. A concrete illustration of what these international inillionaires and interna- 

 tional crackpots have already done to this country is furnished in the matter of 

 sugar and potatoes. 



10. The people of this Nation rationed sugar for so long that the young people 

 did not remember a time when sugar wasn't rationed. 



11. Go up into the great Northwest and you will see gigantic sugar-manufactur- 

 ing plants which have stood idle for years and are rapidly going to decay. On 

 those fertile acres where once grew millions of tons of lush sugar beets you will 

 find mile after mile planted in potatoes. 



12. Under the communistic leadership of Mr. Henry Agard Wallace, Mr. Rex 

 Guy Tugwell, Mr. Mordecai Ezekial, Mr. Leon Henderson, a Mr. Ginsburg, and 

 the Wall Street international bankers, together witli the Texas-Brazilian cotton 

 king, Mr. Will Clayton, sugar production was moved from the United States to 

 the islands of the sea. 



13. The result was a shortage of sugar. 



14. Following up their illogical plan, these conscienceless bureaucrats promised 

 the American beet growers a floor under potatoes if they v.'ould convert their lands 

 from sugar beets to potatoes. 



15. The results is, of course, that we have more potatoes than we can do any- 

 thing with and sugar was so scarce that it was rationed out by the spoonful. 



16. What sugar we do get must come in under trade agreements. But the over- 

 plus of potatoes dcjes not go out under trade agreements. They rot in Government 

 warehouses, after absorbing hundreds of millions of dollars of the taxpayers' 

 money. 



17. These bureaucrats have consistently and persistently said that cotton in 

 the United States was too high, yet it is a matter of record, both in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and in other governmental offices, that Mr. 

 Will Clayton's Anderson-Clayton Co. sold to the Federal Government 255,000 

 bales of cotton at approximately $13 a bale above the market price on the date of 

 sale. This one item of added profit amounted to more than $3,000,000 on 1 day's 

 business. 



"the kemedy" 



Trade agreements, together with these other forms of regimentation, are the 

 brain children of men who are inimical to the best interests of patriotic Americans. 

 Therefore I recommend as follows: 



(a) First, I recommend that this Congress discharge to the American voters bj^ 

 a thorough investigation into the motives of these multimillionaires holding sub- 

 ordinate positions in our State Department. 



(b) I recommend a thorough investigation into why the Department of Agri- 

 culture continues to force the American people to depend on suga* produced out- 

 side the United States by Wall Street internationalists when ample supplies of 

 sugar would be produced by LTnited States farmers if they were encouraged to do 

 so. 



(f) I recommend that Congress investigate whj' it is necessary to have a trade 

 agreement with Cuba and the Wall Street farmers in order for American people 

 to get a spoonful of sugar. 



(d) I recommend that you investigate why the taxpayers' money is used to pile 

 up useless potato crops on land that was formerly planted to sugar beets after 

 using millions a year of the taxpayer's money to hire the sugar producers not to 

 produce the sugar. 



