Agricultural relief: Export debenture plan

Export debenture plan (Pt. 5)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1831934671

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Export debenture plan

Volume count:: Pt. 5

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 299 - 427

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Statement of Louis J. Taber, master national grange, Columbus, Ohio

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Tager. I never talked to such a distinguished committee be- fore. [Laughter.] oe ; ; ; I am in a very fortunate position this morning. It is not neces- sary for me to take the time of this committee and paint a picture and hang it on the wall of the depression and the bad features of agriculture. You know about it. Every speaker who has preceded me has helped build part of the platform upon which I am standing this morning. Every speaker who has preceded me, almost without exception, during the seven years of your hearings has indicated that we have built a legislative and commercial fabric that has placed the American farmer at a disadvantage in comparison with our commercial and industrial life. We all agree to that, and it is unnecessary for me to spend any time painting a dark picture. I am going to paint a picture that is a little bit different. I want you to leave that in your memory if you forget everything else I have said, that the grange does not spread blue paint. We are not saying that agriculture is going to the dogs; we are not saying that peasantry is around the corner for American agriculture. But we are in trouble and we are going to get out. , But there is not any peasantry ahead for folks on the farms of America. We have got troubles and we have got problems. But 1930 and 1940 and 1950 will find on the hills and the valleys and the homes and the prairies of America red-blooded, real men and women on the farms, not peasants—upstanding, clear-thinking, liberty-loving folks, fight- ing for their own liberty and getting the things that are coming to them just in proportion as we fight to defend them. We are in bad shape. I could paint a very dark picture. I could tell of seeing the other day a friend standing by the courthouse with tears in his eyes as the old homestead was sold at sheriff's sale. We could go on and paint those pictures—not from my State but other States. But we have had too much gloom, we have had too much pessimism, we have had too much whining about troubles and not enough constructive thinking about the problems before us. You can not talk this farm situation away. We have got to think it away; we have got to fight it away; and I am old-fashioned enough to believe we have got to do a little praying. We come to-day and lay before you a bill that we think starts in the right direction. A century and a quarter ago, when the policy of this Government was being established, there was conflict between the great ideals of that day—one group had felt that we must remain agricultural ; another group that we must try to become industrial. The Inspira- tion for our program came in this early day and from Alexander Hamilton, the father of American finance. He was not the friend of the farmer—and I will speak perfectly frankly and say he was the friend of industry—he was the friend of capital. But he was air, We have had a lot of men who have been friends of industry and of capital that have not been fair. Alexander Hamilton realized 3 protective policy in America would build up American industry and American transportation and American finance. But he realized that if we did that at the expense of the basic producer the Nation would suffer. So Alexander Hamilton proposed—not the National 307

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Export debenture plan (Pt. 5)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation