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:: 1831935244

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232156

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 8

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. Tom D. McKeown, representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma

Collection:: Economics Books

530 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. KincHELOE. I am trying to understand what a great benefit this has been to the American farmer of having a tariff of 42 cents on wheat. The CrAamrMAN. Mr. Lankford, the committee will be glad to hear vou. STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM C. LANKFORD, REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA Mr. LankrForp. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I have attended all these hearings before this committee, which have lasted for six weeks or longer, and wish to state that I have enjoyed them very much. I have received much very valuable information from the various witnesses who have appeared here, and from the suggestions and questions of members of the committee. I have ascertained the slant of various people on this great problem of farm legislation. There is one thing, though, that I knew before I came to these hearings, and my information has not been strengthened in that respect; that is, that the American farmer really needs some helpful legislation. There is a real farm problem to be solved by this Congress, some future Congress, or left unsolved. I sympathize with the farmer. I was born on a farm, and can truthfully say I was born “way down South in Dixie,” “way down upon the Suwanee River,” in a country log house, in a Georgia cotton field, at “home, sweet home.” Mr. CrArkE. On Sunday? Mr. Lankrorp. I am not sure whether I was born on Sunday or not. But I was born on the 7th day of the month, 1877, and seven has been a lucky number with me from that day to this. I will say furthermore that a man who was born out in the country on the farm and worked six days does not worry about resting on the seventh day. He is perfectly willing that there be enacted a law providing for one day of rest in seven. I wish to say this, that I have introduced a bill for Sunday observ- ance, but I am not here to push that bill at present. I have asked that no hearings be held now on that bill simply because I want to give all of my time to an effort to work out something worth while for the American farmer. I have that at heart, because I was born and raised on the farm. I helped plant cotton when I was a boy; I crawled on my hands and knees and thinned that cotton until I felt like my back would break; I plowed it day after day until I could hardly get one foot ahead of the other; then I picked it until my back was almost blistered in the sun where my waist and trousers did not happen to come together; and then I saw my father, with that cotton sinned, go to market, and heard him ask the merchant “How much will you give me for 1t?”’ saw him sell it, and then walk in the store and say “How much will I have to give you, Mr. Merchant, for the coffee pot, for the potash, for the Arm & Hammer brand of soda,’’ and for the various ‘articles that my father bought and carried back home. I did not believe it was fair for a man who was buying that cotton we had grown to name the price and also to name the price at which my father bought the stuff we needed at the home. hr KincueLoE. What is your theory on the McNary-Haugen

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