Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — HELPING THE FARMER. [ARTICLE]

HELPING THE FARMER.

Republican Promised for Many Years and Democrats Passed the Laws (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The more than 100,000 inquiries received by the farm loan board from persons desirous of information as to process of operation of the proposed banks indicates the need of just such a system, and points out with marvelous distinctness the relief which the measure will bring to agriculturists throughout the United States. 'J’his rural credit legislation will within thenext five years completely transform life upon the farms, and millions of owners of the cultivated lands of the country will experience financial relief through its beneficent and helpful methods. The good roads, the auto vehicles, the telephones, the electric light plants, the motor boats, the suburban and rural electric railways have made rural life-much pleasanter than before their advent. Now, with those who employ borrowed funds able to secure money at more reasonable rates, and many with broad acres and rich lands able to obtain loans unobtainable at any rate in the past in many instances, or w’hen obtainable, then at exorbitant rates, these conditions must make for a vast improvement in the home and the business life of the farmers.

But it is not only the farmers who will be benefited by this advanced and progressive legislation of the Democratic party. ' The merchants at the crossroads, in the villages, the towns and even the largest cities will be beneficiaries as well as the farmers. The manufacturers of agricultural machines; farm implements and of all classes of materials-used upon the farms or in farming operations will reap great and prolonged benefits from this wise and helpful legislation passed by a Democratic congress to further the interests of the people of the United States. It is.all right for our Republican brethren to say we would have passed such.a measure; our administrations favored it, our congress, if elected in November, would have done this for the farmers, but there stands before the people of this country sixteen years of continued Republican administration, sixteen years of McKinTey, Roosevelt and Taft, with Republican houses and a Republican senate, and there was no reform of the currency, no Federal reserve bank legislation, no American shipping bill, and not a line of legislation giving financial relief to the farmers of the United States. The record of good intentions is sponged out by Republican failure to act in the interests-«<Ji the masses of the American people. y