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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