Die obligatorische Krankenversicherung

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Identifikator:: 176840707X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-149526

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die obligatorische Krankenversicherung

Place of publication:: Genf

Publisher:: Internationales Arbeitsamt

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 892 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Vierter Teil. Die Versicherungsträger

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 229 Mr. ANDRESEN. Do you think we should do the best we can and report out a bill that will become a law this session of Congress? Mr. CrowbpER. I said, it is the duty of this body to legislate. Mr. ANDRESEN. The President has to approve it, or else it does not become a law. Mr. Crowper. He has to approve it, but I would feel this way in that respect, in recent years we have been driven from our natural lines of production in order to maintain and stay on the farms for these past years, and if it is possible—of course, I realize that during that time we are going to be compelled by our president to stay another year in the same line, I would say we had better do it than to give up the principles for which we are fighting today. I might say in regard to that condition that as it so happened in Sioux County, just across the river—I live in South Dakota, and Sioux County is in Jowa—is a bunch of Hollanders, who are very thrifty, industrious people, having their own churches and schools built in there, and that was the hub of all agricultural prosperity during the war period; and the inflation became a little greater there, possibly, than in other parts. Lands went up in value so that they sold for $500 to $800 an acre, that is, ordinary farm lands, with fair improvements, which was the excess, and it was beyond really what they should have sold for. But, nevertheless, that wave of prosperity floated out all over other lands, and I think you will agree with me, if you will look up statistics in reference to those things, that that being true, that while we did submit to the inflation, then we had to submit to a deflation, on account of not getting pro- tection for agriculture. This deflation has taken place in our country more rapidly than it has in others, and to a greater extent than in others, until to-day we are down to a basis below the pre-war period in the deflation of our farm lands. . In our own country, I can say this, that the farm lands which sold at 8400 to 8500 in 1919 or 1920 to-day would sell at from $40 to possibly $150 for the best improved farms. Now, with the deflation of that condition and no protection against loss, which I claim this Government’s business is to protect life and property, it has left us in a bad condition. The result is that our banks have failed. A bank is nothing in the world but a reflection of the condition of agficulture, because we are practically all agri- cultural m that country; and therefore it has put us down in a con- dition that is very bad, and the best and most progressive farmers that we had prior to the deflation are not the men who own the property to-day in many instances, or if they are they are holding on with very narrow margins, and hoping the time will come when they will be able to keep the interest up and some day repay their obligations. Mr. Apxins. Your relatives are all farmers and landowners in my district, and, of course, are a little nearer the center of population or where the large part of consumption occurs. Do you think by reason of the fact of your being a long way from those centers of CONSUIMpP-. tion that agriculture in your part of the country is a little worse off than it is over in your old home community? What is your opinion about that? You were out there last summer. Mr. CrowpER. I was, and another thing, it has had a worse effect upon us on account of the fact that we were not as well fortified with other vocations around us or other investments, and. consequently,

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