Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — FARMERS IGNORED BY REPUBLICANS [ARTICLE]

FARMERS IGNORED BY REPUBLICANS

But Democratic Administration Quickly Gave Them Justice in Rural Credits. Don’t forget Mr. Farmer, that through your Farmers’ National Congress, National Grange, National Farmers’ Union, American Society of Equity, and similar organizations you have for years demanded and have importuned Republican administrations for legislation you needed. WHAT DID YOU GET? Through all the years since 1864 the Republican Party was deaf arid blind to the farmer’s financial needs. This in the face of the fact that successful systems of Rural Credits were in operation throughout Europe for a century. When this great Democratic measure was put to vote in the Senate on May 4, 1916, only five Republicans dared vote against it! Three of them were on the sub-committee who wrote the Republican Platform of 191 G. Was it because you were not Big Interests? You were, many of you. highly financed, and High Finance held the mortgage—and to that extent you belonged to High Finance. But you paid big interest to associate with Big Interests. A stack of wheat wasn't as good collateral as a sheaf of scraps of paper held by a stock gambler. Nor did the Political Bosses of the Republican i’arty care to give you financial justice. They were too busy “protecting*’"themselves. THE PROMISES OF,THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1912 written in courage and honesty and with sympathetic understanding of the needs of every honest American interest—HAVE BEEN KEPT. The Republican Party refused to do these things, which the prosperity of the American Farmer required. The Republican presidential candidate, Charles E. Hughes, denounces the Democratic party and President Wilson for having done these things. Where Does Your Interest Lie? (From Farmers’ Pamphlet issued by the Democratic National Committee.)