The vice-president of the National Council of the Farmers’ Co-operative Marketing Association said, “All the farmers ask of Congress is to be allowed to settle his own problems himself.” The organization unanimously endorsed him.
Price fixing was an utter failure from the farmers’ standpoint, as absurd as fixing a uniform leg or waist measure for farmers’ pants. Preferential farm loans in a country profession equality are doubtful blessings. The theory that “He who steals for you will also steal from you,” bobs up every time any man gets a special favor. What the farmer most wants is industrial peace, there is no war in his own field—the wars are carried on somewhere else, and he is the goat. Political nostrums without count have been proposed for farm relief by self-appointed expert Moseses without any real farm mandate; mostly they were mere clever tries for public notoriety or public jobs.
That does not say the farmer is not interested in good legislature, on the contrary, no one is more vitally affected. He needs better distribution, but so, too, do the people who must eat farm products. He needs to know more about the advantages of diversified farming. Also he needs to apply more business-like methods to many farm operations. He is learning all the time.
He is about the gamest sportsman there is in any industry. Just give him a chance, let him alone without a lot of foolish volunteer uplifting and he will come through and feed the world.
From the editorial page of The Sandhill Citizen, Friday, April 3rd, 1925. J.F. Morris, managing editor, and Hiram Westbrook, city editor.
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