Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — REPUBLICANS AND FARMERS [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS AND FARMERS

“During the 18 months the Republicans controlled the senate and house, they failed to make adequate appropriations to take care of the agricultural interests of the country. In the last congress, with the Republicans controlling the committees on agriculture in 'house and senate, they reduced the appropriation requested by a Democratic department

of agriculture over $7,000,000, and reduced the appropriations provided for by a Democratic congress approximately 12,500,000. They cut out and roduced appropriations that' were necessary to preserve the livestock Interests of the countty. They refused to provide adequate appropriations to encourage and aid the American farmer ih the production, conservation and sale of his crops. “Senator Harding was one of these conspirators in the senate against the American fanner, and while we of the Democratic party receiving the hearty co-operation of a Democratic administration were making the fight for weeks in the American congress to prevent the present conditions against which the American farmer and stockman are now striving, Senator Harding and his reactionary Republican friends in the senate and the house were challenging our every statement and obstructing our every effort. —Senator Pat Harrison.