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

Document type:: Volume

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. William C. Lankford, representative in Congress from the state of Georgia

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 641 not receive a subsidy from the Treasury. Subsidies have been from time to time granted to other folks. Why not grant a subsidy to the farmers? The farmers will never, by any scheme we may pass, get back one-tenth of what has been unjustly taken from them by dis- criminatory legislation. But, Mr. Chairman, my bill does not pro- vide for a plan that will lose the Government any amount. It only provides for the elimination of unnecessary profits of certain middle- men who are unnecessary and really amount to parasites living on what they do not at all produce. ° [ have taken many of the bills which have been introduced by others and amended them so as to make them much more effective in the way of helping the farmer. I reintroduced them in their modi- fied form to get before this committee and the country just how simple is the remedy of real farm relief if we will only determine to pass such a» measure. 1 hope this committee will bring out the very best possible bill. . I have been glad in the past to suggest and help secure many splendid changes in the McNary-Haugen bill and know the bill 1s very much improved over its original form, but it is yet far, far from a perfect bill. I believe that it can only be made perfect by giving the farmers complete control of their products and the sale of the same. I have been glad to attend all the hearings of this committee at this Congress and am glad now on the last day of these hearings to submit my conclusions on this great question. I realize that my plan may not be accepted just now but I hope for it to be eventually written into law. I have submitted my bill to many farmers, farm organizations, Members of Congress, Senators, and Cabinet members and have yet to find the first man to say it will not work if the farmers want it and sign up the contracts. I am offering it because I feel it will work and that the farmers will approve it and sign the contracts. The farmers will organize if we will make organization really worth while to them. They are a little shy of organizations because too often they are led into organizations by those who wish to exploit and to plunder them. My bill provides for the most effective farm relief ever offered, provided the farmers themselves will approve the plan and put it into effect. So the only question in doubt is, will the farmers sign the contracts suggested by my bill. The farmers organized. and won our independence more than a century ago. They have organized and given their country assistance n every war. They helped to put over the Liberty loan drive during the last war and sent their sons across the seas to fight at the call of their country. So, Mr. Chairman, I am sure they will enter into a plan with their neighbors to win for them and their children a new freedom of naming within reason the price of the products of their own toil. Let us do our part and knowing the farmers as I do, I vouch for their faithful discharge of their duty in full, as they have ever done. } } Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and this committee for the ~ourtesies shown me and for your most attentive attention to my presentation of this matter, in which we are all so much interested.

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