Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1936 — Page 4

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Complete Text of Gov. Landon’s Talk at Des Moines

8, Ia, Sept. 23.)

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We sre here for a sion of the needs of want to know what SErmers can count on Republican Party. My purpose is t ell you. Ninst of my life, private and Jie hes been spent in close contact mith farmers. For four v have Sas the honor of being governor of ® great sgricuitural state. I know She sspirations of farnd folks. They 3 chance and

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thing more =atisfying having a ty of hay in hogs and feedlot. As

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have been call iON IS not a 1 a national ques of whether the faniily ‘will be able 3 buy the thi 1 need—whether Shell be 2bie 10 maintain the american standard of living. It sarstnn whether the rest of our geome wil be abie to trade a part & Thear products to the man on the Sener for three square meals a day AN the farmer asks is that his Sesame Be on a parity with the rest of the nation; that he may enjor the same standard of life; That his home be made secure; and that he be able to build up a reserve for the future. E I= op ihe dir interest of the and other producers of the farmer be a nd a good customer. ms can not Be realized over-night. Miracles are =n more common in Washington han th in Des Mboines. To get ® Teal solution we must have a well Seances program —a program that =o meri. not “only present Smmeeoencs, and the immediate fu1 iong time pull! platform offers m. By it we are

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FARM INCOME

standard of ting the in-

) the farm ure, by protec ihe farm family. of the soil and through and-use

} guard the food supply Belion by preserving our’ he resources ing conservation and Policies Tn or I the far m an

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a settled, workable, national policy for agriculture. Before I go into a discussiog of thiz program let me make this one point absolutely clear. If I am elected, I shall fulfill all outstanding obligations made by the present Administration with the American farmer. By this I mean that those who have carried out their end of the bargain will receive the checks due them. I am equally emphatic in my views on meeting the suffering caused by the present drought. We will use the full power of government to relieve the present distress. Those of our farmers hard hit by the drought will be generously provided for until they can raise a crop. This means the continuation of relief checks! It means as well, in the case of many farmers, seed loans and other necessary assistance in order that the farmer may get started again. Where such help is needed, we will give it promptly. There will be no waste and no poliLet Repub

me repeat this part of the lican program. We will not allow needless suffering in this country—either on our farms or in our cities. We are determined to extend every reasonable aid to our people to get them back on a selfsupportii 1g basis in the shortest possible time. Now I turn to our policies which geal with the future! : For many years farmers producing crops of which there is normally an exportable surplus have worked under a handicap. I mean such staple products as hogs, wheat, cotton and tobacco. The surplus is sold on world markets and the price of the entire crop is affected by what surplus will bring. tection for these markets, generally speaking, is ineffective, except when there is a shortage. This handicap has become increasingly recent years. Today,

the

istic aims and the fears they cur agriculture surpluses. eign competitors are aided by ernment subsidies. So long as this is the case, the cards are stacked against our farmers.

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PLATFORM PLEDGE

Sometime there again will be normal world conditions. In the meantime, those of our farmers with expertable surpluses will remain at a disadvantage with our other producers. The Republican party proposes to | offset these disadvantages by the payment of cash benefits. These cash benefits will be limited to the production level of the family-type farm. We are pledged by our platform | “To provide, in the case of agriculiural products of which there are exportable surpluses, the payment of reasonable benefits upon the domestically consumed portion of such crops, in order to make the tariff effective.” This means that our farmers will receive an American and not a foreign price for their products. This is the first time this principle has been put forward by a major political party. Such protec-

{ tion is simply common fairness to

the farmer. It will act as insurance until long-time programs of surplus removal and land use can be brought into. effect. I will stand by this pledge. In do-

ing so, I shall call on the statesman-

ship of both parties and will conult and work with responsible farmers and farm -leaders. We're going to see to it that the farmer whose crops have to be sold on a world market gets the equivalent of a really effective tariff. One thing we have learned from past

| Federal

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experience is this: We can not let | temporary surpluses destroy the]

family.

As part of the plan for removing the depressing effect of surpluses, I | shall propose an amendment to the | Warehousing Act so that |

reserves of feed, sueh as corn, can |

be carried on the farm. We have | : { servation and domestic allotment

act, The conservation plan was not | {conservation. It was a stopgap, a | subterfuge. Any one going through | the present mixup in an effort to |

learned from a painful experience that the overfilled crib may quickly become the empty crib. It is to the

advantage of both the producer and | consumer—and the farmer is | both when it comes to feed crops— |

the

that thse conditions be evened out as much as possible,

HANDLING SURPLUSES

Under this amendment the farmer who stores his grain on the farm, in | such a way as to make it insurable, | will be entitled to a Federal ware- | house receipt. He then will be eligible to borrow from any banking | agency. He will enjoy the same credit facilities as are available to owners of grain stored in terminal markets. The grain would be stored on the farm, ready for use or sale | at any time the farmer cares to | take up the loan.

I am now going to mention a subject that is in neither platform-— crop insurance, It is a question in which we have long been interested in Kansas. In fact, some of our Republican leaders in farm legislation have been in the forefront in working on it. We realize that there

are difficulties. But insurance com-

panies are writing policies today covering risks that they did not confeasible a few years ago. I believe that the question of crop

| insurance should be given the full- |

attentidn. We need also to resume our once remarkable progress in introducing new crops for the use of our lands, This work seems to have slowed down. Yet it is exactly what the Department of Agriculture should now be rushing. Not only must we take care of the | problems of the land, but we must

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| develop more domestic demand and

different uses for the products of the land. I am far more interested

{in seeing farmers paid ‘for growing

the things we know we need, than in paying them for not growing the things we think we don’t need.

Most “of us co-operated with the | { Triple A in its early days, since we | {had been promised it was only an | emergency measure. It was the only | important agency working for the | relief of the farm at that time, and |

it was entitled to a fair trial.

Washington. { such a policy. | the President.

{own farm.”

We were ® promised that the Triple

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{A would be quickly replaced by a |souna, long-time program.

SOIL CONSERVATION

But instead, after crop reduction | we had crop adjustment, then more crop shifting under the soil con-

qualify for a check will agree with | me! Nobody was fooled, least of all | the farmer.

| Now something else has just been | automobile |

announced. Like the ! manufacturers, the Administration | believes in bringing out a new model | | every year.

{ What is the farm policy of this | | Administration? In my opinion it | | has none. After being in power for | | nearly four years the Administra- | i tion is still without a settled, workable, national policy for agriculture. | [It's right back where it started from! Soil conservation—real conserva- | tion—is a subject close to my heart. |In. Kansas we link soil conservation with water conservation and flood control into a corelated program. More than two years ago I suggested to the present Administration a comprehensive program to be administered through joint state and Federal action. I requested that the Federal government take leadership in these policies as a part of its drought program. This was not done, but in Kansas (we went ahead anyway, making ef{fective use of Federal funds pro[vided for work relief, by building ponds, by digging public wells for | farms, and constructing a state-wide system of lakes and municipal reservoirs. This work, backed by sound land policies, has given Kansas a real start in the direction of conservation. Of course much remains to be done. But we know as a result of this experience, that there is such (a thing as spending money wisely.

with the states in putiing into effect a real conservation program along

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

It will be my purpose to co-operate |

| broad lines. But we will not do this at the expense of dairy and live- | stock producers. | Where the farmer is unable to {afford proper conservation practices, | cash payments should be made for actual performance. There should be state participation in the program, with the local administration in the hands of farmers themselves. Conservation is an inseparable | part of a national land-use program. Through such a program we can bring our farm plant into proper balance and gradually shape our land resources to their right uses.

RAPS U. S. SPENDING

The program we propose will put an end to the policies of this Administration of trading off the

American farmer. It will make un- | necessary giving away the equiva{lent of 255000,000 acres to foreigners. | Tt will prevent the importation of

{ pork products from 16 different | -

{ countries. It will eliminate all excuse

| for paying $785,000 in one year to a |

| sugar corporation, or $155,000 to a | packing company for its hog opera- | tions, or $301,000 to a British-owned {cotton company.- And it no longer will be possible for a corporation farmer to rent government-controlled Indian land and get $51,000 subsidy, or for a garbage feeder to get 100 times as much as a good corn belt farmer. There is one more important point in our program I wish to emphasize. This is, that we shall “free the farm and the rest of the country Yrom the, impending dangers of ruinous debt and taxation.” All of yau know the rate at which government spending is going on. The national debt has now reached the studendous figure of 34 billion dollars and it is increasing every minute. Let us look at this proposition candidly. This increasing debt can be paid only by taxation if this is to remain an honest government. Taxes add to the cost of everything and the farmer is so situated that he can not escape their penalty. Further, the taxes reduce the ability of the consumer to buy the products of the farm. The Republican Party proposes to put an end to the present waste and extravagance. So much for the main provisions cf the program which we propose for American’ agriculture. It is a

program based upon the same principles that farmers have urged for years. It follows in the same furrows that were plowed at the meetings of the corn belt committee here in Des Moines. It offers a practical means to attain what we have been seeking —a free and independent agricuiture. Today, 42 farms out of every one jpundred are operated by tenants. Our national welfare demands

that the situation be corrected. If ! history teaches us anything, it | teaches that the stability of civilization depends upon ownership of the land by the man who works the land. * It is our pledge to extend within the limits of sound finance, adequate credit at reasonable rates, to capable tenants and experienced farmers, for the purchase or refinancing of farm homes. ‘You will see that everything I have said points to but one end— that is the protection of the familytype farm. This philosophy runs ike a thread through the Republican platform. It is in keeping | with the American tradition, which is based upon preserving individual opportunity. But you will not find | it even mentioned in the platform | of the opposing party.

INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY

The provision of adequate credit | at reasonable rates that I have! just mentioned will encourage farm ownership. Our program of conser- i

| vation will enable the man living |

on his own land to maintain the! productivity of that land and thereby remain a self-supporting citizen ol Our cash benefits, as I said, will be! limited to the production level of | | the family-type farm. ; | The Republican Party, in other | words, does not believe in having our farms operated by large corpo- | rate enterprises. It is our conviction that it is | the duty of the government to | preserve the family type of farm for all time—preserve it as a home and as a source of livelihood. * We should make it possible for the farm wife to enjoy the comforts of modern labor-saving devices. We should make it pos-

sible for farm children to have

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1936

the same educational opportuni- |terprises. It rests upon our having ties as city children. millions and millions of individual We should make It Possible for |; i ers and home-owners.

our boys and girls of the 4-H Clubs | and vocational classes to inherit an| These are the people that give us | security and give us our spirit of

agriculture worthy of their ideals | independence as a nation! We

and aspirations. The rity of our social and | economif system does not rest upon | must not let them be driven to the the foundation of a few great en- | wall!

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