Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934884

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 6

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 429 - 520

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 451 higher production, and then this board should actually stabilize the price downward in line with the suggestion a little awhile ago, do you think that would suit the folks very well who had made a contri- bution? In other words, they are interested in stabilization, that they want stabilization up; they do not want any stabilization downwards when they are going to be assessed for it. Mr. KiLgore. I do not think it could be any worse than it has been. Any stabilization would be better than the ruinous condi- tions that have existed in the past, and this board would stabilize the price so that it would be on the average better than it has been, so we would get a fair and reasonable price. I think it could be worked out. Mr. Kercuam. The danger as I see it, Doctor Kilgore, is setting up a Government instrumentality that is supposed to act for the farmers in stabilizing the price upwards, whereas the popular view would naturally be interested in something very much on the other side of the proposition. Mr. KiLcore. I can appreciate that. Mr. KercHaM. There is no control over the appointment of the board. Is it not pretty fair to presume that by and by the consumers will awake to the possibilities and say ‘that is a thing that works one way; let us get around and work it on the other side’ ? Mr. KiLcore. But you remember that a representative of labor has appeared before this committee and has expressed the attitude of labor as in favor of giving the farmer a fair price. Mr. Fort. That is before they have paid out. I want to make in that connection the only personal statement I have asked the privilege of making in this record for some time: That I personally am entirely in sympathy with the aspirations of the farmer for a higher price average on his commodities; that I have believed, and do believe, that in many cases commodities are selling below where they should sell; and that I have so stated to my con- stituents, who are purely consumers, and have told them that I expected to support in Congress—repeatedly told them—Ilegislation that I believe will increase the cost of living. And I have yet to have a protest from any consumer against the occurrence of an en- hanced price of commodities if that price is necessary to produce a fair living to the American farmer, and if that price be not made greater by speculative or other manipulations that do not go to the benefit of the American farmer. My opposition to the McNary-Haugen type of legislation, which I believe to be approved by my constituents, is that I do not believe that the full benefits, or any substantial part of the benefit of any price enhancement, will be translated into the pockets of the farmer under that type of legislation; that I do not believe it to be consti- tutional, and therefore I am certain that in the second year, which is the one that Doctor Kilgore is worrying over, the whole machinery will fall apart through the intervention of the courts, and leave established an organization carrying a large part of the surplus, which would have to be dumped to the wrecking of the market of the farmer in the succeeding year. Therefore, since I can not see that the plan will benefit the farmer, and that such increases as it produces will only result in penalizing the consumer in the first year, with ultimate Jlfmage to the farmer, I can not vote for any such type of legis- ation.

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