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A REPUBLICAN
PROBLEM
(Juneau Empire)
For more than a year the
editors and scores of ortho
dox Republican newspap
ers in all sections of the
country have urged their
party leaders to proclaim a
farm program. These in
clude the Chicago Tribune
and Senator Arthur Cap
per’s Topeka Capital in the
Midwest, the Los Angeles
Times and the Portland
Oregonian in the Far West,
the Hartford Courant and
Boston Transcript in New
England.
In January of last year
William Allen White and
other liberals started a
movement in the plains
states with that definite pur
pose in view. They propos
ed a grass roots conference
—a real conference—of pro
gressive Republicans at on
ce familiar with the pro
blems of agriculture and
willing to formulate for the
guidance of their Eastern
brethren a plan which
would not ignore the fact
that the measures adopted
by the Roosevelt admini
stration had saved the farm
ers from ruin.
But the gathering at
Springfield was promptly
taken over by the Old
Guard and was an auspic
ious flop. Subsequent con
claves in the Rocky Moun
tain region, in Cleveland,
Ohio, and elsewhere were
called for the same purpose
but none was productive of
the semblance of a plan.
Now, however, the situa
tion has changed.
Speaking at Des Moines
recently Senator L. J. Dick
inson, arch foe of the New
Deal, proposed a farm re
lief program. He said it .
“. . . should embrace erosion,
soil consen ‘ion . . . with the
Federal Government appropriat
ing funds to be allotted to the
states in such cooperative work.”
Governor Landon of Kan
sas was speaking at the
same time and he announc
ed his farm program. He
said:
“The proper application of soil
conservation principles would
help materially to prevent the
production of . . . price-depress
ing surpluses.”
The previous week Col.
Knox, Chicago publisher,
proposed his program, say
ing:
“It is a simple proposal that
the American Government, repre
senting all of us in the protec
tion of an asset that belongs tc
all of us—the fertility of the soil
—shall aid the farmer by a direcl
subsidy from the Treasury.”
And ex-President Hoov
, er in his speech at Lincoln,
Neb., said:
“I believe we must be prepar
ed to subsidize directly such spec
ial crops unrt.il agriculture has
again been brought into balance,
at the end of such a road we
could hope for a balance agricul
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In other words, every
one of the major Republi
can candidates favors crop
restriction in precisely the
manner recommended by
President Roosevelt two
weeks before Knox, Dick
inson and Landon had sub
mitted their “programs”
and several days before Mr.
Hoover’s speech at Lin
coln. And it is significant
that not one of these four
constitutionalists dared to
look eye to eye with the
Supreme Court and say
that the agricultural pro
blem is one for the states
alone.
So until our energetic
and resourceful President
had found a way, and the
bill was being debated in
Congress, these aspirants
were as much in the dark
as they were more than a
year ago. Now all of them
would do it the Roosevelt
way.
None of the many vital
national problems inherit
ed by the Roosevelt admin
istration from the Hoover
administration had caused
more human distress and
economic disarrangement
j than the farm problem. All
four of these aspirants
know it developed under
Harding and Coolidge and
became dangerously acute
under Hoover. It was de
cidedly a Republican pro
blem.
After this performance
the public has a right to ex- j
pect that their pitiful re
cord in this respect is sym
ptomatic of their capabili
ties to cope with the gener
al task of rehabilitation—
from which Mr. Roosevelt j
has never for a moment1
flinched.
The orient never fails to
veil its true feelings with a
gallant gesture. Officers,
leading the unsuccessful
rebellion, asked permis
sion of the Emperor to take
their own lives.
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