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"Mr. Robinson of Indiana: 'Mr. President, I had 

 assumed, until the junior Senator from Ohio (Mr. 

 Fess) spoke yesterday and again to some extent 

 today, that there was no question in the mind of 

 any member of this body as to the fact that there 

 is a farm problem in the United States. I had as- 

 sumed that the facts were so perfectly clear, so 

 perfectly well known to every man, woman, and 

 child in this great land of ours with reference to 

 the farm situation, that there could be no question 

 in the mind of any Senator as to whether the prob- 

 lem existed or not. I was utterly amazed at some 

 statements made by my good friend, formerly my 

 teacher, the junior Senator from Ohio, but not more 

 so in any statement he made than in that which 

 suggested that this is a sort of passing craze, a phase 

 of our national life that will pass over in a day or 

 a week or a month, and that it requires no attention 

 whatever from the American Government, basic 

 though the industry be.' 



"Mr. Gooding: 'Altogether, Mr. President, in 1914 

 we had in banks $21,359,842,316.35; and in 1925 we 

 had $51,892,932,000. 



'We have accumulated more wealth in our banks 

 since 1914 than all the accumulations in the exist- 

 ence of this Government before that time. Yet, 

 the great Senator from Ohio stands here and tells 

 us that there is no difference between the condition 

 of agriculture at the present time, as far as its 

 relationship to industry is concerned, and its condi- 



