AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
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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.