American Agriculturist, August 30, 1924 
141 
What the Parties Offer Farm Women 
What the Republicans Stand For 
{Continued from page 133) 
itself to the development of measures 
which will place the agricultural interests 
of this country on a basis of economic 
equality with all other interests. 
Adequate tariff protection for such 
agricultural products as are always 
threatened by foreign competition has 
been a feature of every Republican tariff 
bill. Such protection is as necessary to 
the farmer as it is to the business man 
and to the worker in the factory. 
Farmers who plant the full acreage of 
their land in such staples as wheat and 
cotton suffer when their crops are poor 
or prices are low because of overproduc¬ 
tion. A farm with a diversity of crops, 
a farm supported by its own garden 
through the extension division of the^, great possibilities for the man on the 
department. The extension division in farm but life made incomparably easier 
its encouragement of canning clubs for for his wife by the many labor-saving 
girls, and pig, corn and similar clubs for devices which cheap electric power 
boys and girls, reaches the children on makes possible. To the western farmer’s 
the farm as well as the adults. wife and to the woman whose husband 
The Republican party in its program is taking up land in the great South- 
for the improvement of agricultural west this question of government or 
conditions should have the support of private control of your natural resources 
all the voters, both men and women. It is of vast importance. Much as we may 
is a sane program, and it spells prosperity value private initiative it must be clear 
and general well being for the farms and to all that where a man or a company is 
the homes of this country. 
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The Democratic Platform 
{Continued from page 133) 
operating in their own interest, they are 
of necessity going to watch that interest 
primarily, whereas when it is a question 
of developing all the resources to the 
best future advantage of vast areas of 
land, the project should be handled as 
a whole for the good of all the people and 
not by individual enterprises. 
During the past few years the farmer's 
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public land to big companies to “de¬ 
velop” in the way described above, 
_ whereas, the Democratic policy has been _ D _ 
products and its own milk and butter p 0 keep these vast tracts in the hands of wife of the great Northwest has at last 
and eggs and which is able to sell any 
surplus of these—here the problem of 
better marketing enters—such a farm 
offers the most stable form of existence, 
and it is such a farm that is the backbone 
of America. 
The enactment of the co-operative 
market act into law has been one im¬ 
portant step taken toward agricultural 
relief. The grain futures and packer 
control act gives to agriculture direct 
representation on the Federal Reserve 
Board and on the Federal Trade Com¬ 
mission. This was a necessary step. 
Agriculture should have a direct voice in 
these bodies. 
The revival in 1921 of the War Finance 
Corporation with loans of over $100,000,- 
000 tided over the agricultural industry, 
averting a complete collapse. New inter¬ 
mediate credit banks for agriculture have 
also been established during the present 
Republican administration and the capital 
of the federal farm loan system has been 
increased. Drought stricken areas have 
been aided by emergency loans. The 
farmers, it must be remembered, receive 
no weekly pay envelopes. They must 
deal largely in futures and in case of 
crop failure and lack of ability to save 
for one year or for a period of years, 
they must have credit while waiting for 
their new crops to become marketable. 
As President Coolidge pointed out in 
his first message to Congress, no one way 
offers a solution to the problems con¬ 
fronting the farmers. “Indirectly,” said 
President Coolidge, “the farmer must be 
relieved by a reduction of national and 
local taxation.” The Republican party in 
its national platform pledges a progres¬ 
sive reduction of the taxes of all the 
people as rapidly as may be done with 
provision for the essential expenses of 
the government. The high prices and 
the prosperous times now promised the 
farmer show r that the Republican party 
has been right in its belief that many 
factors enter into agricultural relief. 
All of this has to do with the prosperity 
of the American farm and of the nation. 
The United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture has a much broader field than 
this, however. It is concerned with the 
well-being of the American family in the 
home and the improvement of the living 
conditions not only of those wdio live on 
the farms but in the cities. 
The Department of Agriculture took a 
distinct step forward in service to the 
women of this country when a little 
more than a year ago it established the 
Bureau of Home Economics. This 
bureau on an equal footing with all other 
separate bureaus of the department, 
grew out of the former office of Home 
Economics. Secretary Wallace of the 
For the Stout Woman 
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the government or at least under gov- come to realize one thing, wffiich perhaps 
eminent control. has not been clear before, namely that her 
A good illustration is the development prosperity is tied up with the possibility 
of the water pow'er in New York State of markets in Europe and markets which 
which for some time has been one of the can buy. No amount of protective 
Department of Agriculture placed the big issues between the Republican and tariff has helped the farmer when he 
bureau on an independent basis because Democratic parties. The power gener- could not sell his goods and had to buy 
ated by Niagara Falls, owned on the 
he recognized the need of a more inclusive 
study of the problems of the home. 
It is felt that economic investigations 
which will yield information as to how 
people actually live are fundamental to 
all the work of the bureau. This bureau 
finds out what the home conditions are in 
this country and studies plans for 
improving these conditions. Suggestions 
for improvements are put into effect 
American side by private companies, 
costs the consumer far more than that 
owned on the Canadian side by the gov¬ 
ernment. There is in New York State, 
and in many other parts of our country, 
a vast 1 amount of electric power latent 
in our rivers and streams, and if their 
sources are kept up by the proper care 
of the forests this may mean not only 
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in a protected market. The tariff has 
hindered, not helped, wffiere he was con¬ 
cerned, because he could not sell and the 
large industries having succeeded in 
getting tariff protection sold to him at 
high rates. It is claimed that at present 
this situation is much improved but it is 
an artificial improvement, the funda¬ 
mental cause of the trouble not having 
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