‘P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1495 
The Republican Party 
and the Farmer 
To the Farmers of the Nation: 
Next November you will join with all other 
good citizens in choosing a President of the 
United States for the four years beginning March 
4, 1921. 
You must choose either Warren G. Harding, 
the Republican nominee, or Gov. Cox, the Demo¬ 
cratic nominee. There is no third choice. One 
or the other of these two men will be elected. 
The affairs of the nation during the next four 
years will be directed either by a Republican or 
by a Democratic administration. 
Which will best serve your interests, both as a 
citizen and as a farmer? 
Let us look at it for a moment from the purely 
farm standpoint. 
Your experience of the past seven years, and 
especially during the past three years, tells you 
what you may fairly expect from a Democratic 
administration. 
titude toward American agriculture. It promises 
a well thought out, constructive program which 
will help make farming more profitable and there¬ 
fore make our farms more productive. 
In contrast with this helpful attitude of the Re¬ 
publicans the Democratic party offers no protec¬ 
tion to the American farmer against the cheap 
farm products of foreign lands; on the contrary, 
it reaffirms its tariff-for-revenue-only policy which 
throws the American market wide open to the 
dairy products, grains and meats produced on the 
cheap land and by cheap labor of foreign coun¬ 
tries. It promises no relief from the price-fixing 
and price drive policies which have cost the farm¬ 
ers hundreds of millions of dollars during the 
past two years and have helped no one but the 
speculator and the profiteer. Nor does it even 
recognize the existence of the violent fluctuations 
in the prices of farm products—more violent and 
unreasonable during the past three years than 
ever before in our history—which have caused 
you such heavy and unnecessary losses. 
The extension of the federal farm loan act so 
as to help farmers to become farm owners and 
thus reduce the evils of farm tenantry, and also 
to furnish such long-time credit as farmers need 
to finance adequately their larger and long-time 
production operations. 
Revision of the tariff as necessary for the pres¬ 
ervation of a home market for American labor, 
agriculture and industries. (Note that the pledge 
to the farmer is just as specific as to labor and 
capital.) 
Harding’s Endorsement 
Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican 
nominee, in his speech of acceptance took ad¬ 
vanced ground on behalf of agriculture. He said: 
“I hold that farmers should not only be per¬ 
mitted but encouraged to join in co-operative 
associations to reap the just measure of reward 
merited by their arduous toil. 
Your industry, the greatest in the nation, was 
singled out as the target for a price fixing policy 
which has limited the prices of the things you had 
to sell while leaving you exposed to the exactions 
of profiteers in practically every other line of 
production, distribution and speculation. 
^ ou have been told what you could receive for 
your staple products, either directly or indirectly; 
you have been subjected to restraints as to ship¬ 
ping, and all sorts of exactions and annoyances. 
But there has been no limit placed upon what 
others might charge you for the things you have 
had to buy. 
The result of this unwise, unsympathetic policy, 
while discouraging and harmful to the farm pro¬ 
ducer, has not helped the consumer. On the con¬ 
trary, it has made conditions worse for him, be¬ 
cause it has tended to curtail production and at 
the same time has stimulated speculation and 
profiteering. 
The Republican party is not a class or sectional 
party; its policies are intended to upbuild the en¬ 
tire nation. But it believes that it is essential to 
the welfare of all our people that the farmer, 
whose industry is the very foundation of our na¬ 
tional prosperity, should have his fair share of the 
wealth which bis labor and enterprise creates. It 
behoves that if our agriculture is to be maintained 
the farmer must have an absolutely square deal. 
1 he Republican party therefore, by its platform 
ami by the utterances of its candidates, is pledged 
to a thoroughly sympathetic, practical, helpful at¬ 
Pledges of the Republican Party 
Here are the formal pledges of the Republican 
party as set forth in the agricultural plank of the 
national platform. Read them carefully, for they 
are of vital interest to you. 
Practical and adequate farm representation in 
the appointment of governmental officials and 
commissions. 
The right to form co-operative associations for 
marketing their products, and protection against 
discrimination. 
The scientific study of agricultural prices and 
farm production costs at home and abroad, with 
a view to reducing the frequency of abnormal 
fluctuations, and the uncensored publication of 
such reports. 
The authorization of associations for the exten¬ 
sion of personal credit. 
A national inquiry on the co-ordination of rail, 
water and motor transportation, with adequate 
facilities for receiving, handling and marketing 
food. 
The encouragement of our export trade. 
An end to unnecessary price-fixing and ill-con¬ 
sidered efforts arbitrarily to reduce prices of farm 
products, which invariably result to the disadvan¬ 
tage both of producer and consumer. 
The encouragement of the production and im¬ 
portation of fertilizing material and for its ex¬ 
tended use. 
Send for a free copy of Senator Harding's address in which he discusses at length present day 
problems of the farmer. 
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago 
“Our platform is an earnest pledge of renewed 
concern for agriculture, and we pledge effective 
expression in law and practice. We will hail that 
co-operation which will make profitable and de¬ 
sirable the ownership and operation of small 
farms and which will facilitate the marketing of 
farm products without the lamentable waste 
which exists under present conditions. 
“A Republican administration will be committed 
to a renewed regard for agriculture and seek the 
participation of farmers in curing the ills justly 
complained of and aim to place the American 
farm where it ought to be—highly ranked in 
American activities and fully sharing the highest 
good fortune of American life. 
“Becoming associated with this subject are the 
policies of irrigation and reclamation so essential 
to agricultural expansion, and the continued de¬ 
velopment of the great and wonderful west.” 
Mr. Harding pledges federal co-operation with 
state governments in building and improving 
farms-to-market roads rather than national high¬ 
ways, to cheapen and facilitate the quick ship¬ 
ment of crops. 
i 
I 
-----j 
ublican National Committee, 
s— 
0 Republican National Committee, 
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Ill. 
Please send me, free and postpaid, copy of 
Senator Harding’s Address on the present 
day problems of the farmer. 
I 
Name . 
Address 
