Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831932598

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232069

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 1

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III, 69 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Further statement of Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation

Collection:: Economics Books

38 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF right next December to come back to Congress and make the fight for what we consider is vital to the maintenance of this proposition. Now, I want to submit to you, as representing these organizations, if we are not in better shape to do that with the fundamental idea established, with two of the essentials in it, to go before the country? We will not lose all this $400,000,000. We can not lose it all in that time, and if it does what we all hope it will do—bring agriculture on a level with other activities—next December we will not have very much trouble putting on a proposition to let the farmers maintain it themselves. Mr. KincaELOE. What is your question? Mr. FuLumer. May I add right there that in the meantime we will elect a Democratic President? Mr. Apkins. Now we are up against a practical legislative propo- sition here which is not what I would like. I am on record for every- thing you have said here, and propose to fight for it, but we are up against a practical proposition that if we can not get this—and we have every assurance, so far as assurances go, from leaders that are close to the President (and I am not)—that such a bill would be signed, if the country is not better off and if the farmer is not better off, and if we have a chance to demonstrate what surplus control will do, if we have not got a better chance to have the bill signed to go over on the floor and pass the bill and have it signed—if that would not be better for the country than to pass a bill and have it vetoed. I want to know if you do not think we would be better off than to go back without anything. Mr. Gray. No. Mr. Apxins. We would not? Mr. Gray. We would not be better off because, under those conditions that you have set up in that question, the bill, if it is to be passed emasculated as you suggest, could not contain any guarantee that it was going to be corrected in a subsequent Congress. Mr. Wirriams of Illinois. And we would be better off without anything? Mr. Gray. If the bill went through the Congress just setting up a Federal farm board, as Doctor Atkeson, former representative of the Grange describes it, an organization with nothing to do, and you would go before the people of the country on that kind of a bill, and you would get approval on it, then why should Congress amend It when approval had been given in a congressional campaign. We want a bill which has the fundamentals of permanent agriculture in it, not some temporizing emergency situation, or some foolish thing, as you suggest. We want a bill that has meat in it, or to use a rougher expression, that has guts in it. Mr. Apxins. In other words, if we can not get the bill as suggested by your organization, with the equalization fee in it, your judement is that we had better not have anything? ’ Mr. Gray. That - would be our judgment. Mr. Apkins. That is what I want to know. Mr. Jones. Let me ask just this one question. You suggest a further addition here, and in that addition you say that if the cooperative associations are unwilling to try the loan feature—and you say they probably will not be willing to try it— then if they are not willing to try it your additional provision does not,

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