Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1923, Page 5

Ve onservative East Is Warned To Take Brookhart Seriously Iowa Senator, as Symptom of Radical- ism, Can Be Met Only by Constructive Acts, Observer Declares. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE S MOINES, Iowa, Jul When | tnquirers in Jowa want to know | whether this great empire of corn can be saved from radicalism they wre told there §s not a man In the| state who can defeat Smith W.| Brookhart for the Senate in 1924 | Towa is not proud of Brookhart. His ! ways are not her ways. He is al prophet of woe, an apostle of dis- ontent, with little honor in his own lund, | Yet he stands, symbol-like, for so the Towa farmer and the er crave that he probably nvinctble when he comes up re-election next vea othing le in the way of suddent 1g rural prosperity could cendant course of the iven then, as is the doubtless would as the miracle the tadls- rifle M a will be for savior of the situation. It win, head ou-lose, with the atesman just back from h a sheaf of panacea tural distress Wheat Slump is Factor, > cagging rookhurt wit eat market n ideal home has leaped ed, 1 rent P unct ne - more ing of resounding <ur, The farmer of the Iaborious win and spring d him, aboul to reap a Vi and s« it on a declining mar It is true that this appiles main- Iy to wheat growers and to hog ratsers. It - that it does not apply at all nator Brookhart's own state, 90 cent ‘of whose &rein crop nowadays is corn, and corn | s selling at profitable pric But | generalizing a- Jamity-howle ie agricultu- ral times, generally speaking, certain- 1y are out of joint, un- fully ing we . st be taken seriou The “con- afford to ore La Follette agnus Johnson, or dual in importance. Abuse Called Unwise, Mere abuse of the the Johnsons from *“s in the present temper furmers, not only to augument stature of th idols, but *to the “movement,” of which the re only vociferous exponents great- © boné and sinew than it had b Radicalism in the midwest not be combated by consentrat- ing the attack on the type of states- men it has manufactured. The up- Zieavel 1S too deep-rooted, the causes too fundamental to be met by any- fng but _genuine constructive measures. When political leaders and Congress have grasped that fact o valuable first step will have been ' o \pstead, other or in- banner, rock-ribbed re- publican It ‘gave Harding a onster majority in 1920. But it was largely a “protest” vote against after-war “conditions in town and country, for which, as is the Ameri- can wont, the administration in power was held responsible. Pledges of a speedy return to economic nor- malcy went stralght to the heart of the Towa farmer and rail worker, and to the producing and consuming classes in general. Still Await Normalcy. Two years and a half of the Harding™ regime have gone by. Towa has not experienced normaley. The Esch-Cummins transportation law, one of whose co-authors is a senator from the state, has fal- len into contemipt. The new re- publican tariff has proven an il- usory boon to the Towa farmer. Ho s contributing the lion's share of | the ©0.000,000 hushels of ‘corn and, 2,000,000,000 pounds of pork that we are selling to Kurope this year, but he knows they are being exported it “dumping” prices, and that urope’s capacity to pay profitable prices has disappeared. Vaguely, the Iowa farmer holds the administration «t Washington re- sponsible for this old-world depre slon and {ts repercussion on Amer: can agriculture. Altogether, they form a cluster of ‘indictments that can only he described as formidable. Talk to the Iowa farmer in the lan- Zuage of John Stuart Mill; argue with him about the inexorable 1 of supply znd demand; plead w him that the world, in an economic * sense, is upside down; show him that T A ‘all the king’s horses and all the cannot put the agricul A Home {towns that Towa contains tin | world fwould | that the farmer tural Humpty-Dumpty of prosperity Congre thing: on the wall again by mere act of s—urge any and all of these s plausibly as you may, and you the horny-handed '(and hard-headed) son of the soil not only unconvinced, but probably indignant with you for attempting to beguile him with false words. flect of Harding Trip. Thus, it is not apparent on the surface that President Harding's cestern campalgn made much of an wpression in lowa. Without any concrete reasons, the Hawkeye n people share the widespread tern view that the Harding ad- ministration is a “Wall street” r. gime. That opinion, of course, is not eld by the more important business classes or by what is sometimes called the intelliges But out where the cornficlds ve by the golden mile as far as the eye can reach, among the myriad of small mong the at the head- te—in all precincts the administration with in these w hosts of railroad workers many trunk-line divisional quarters throughout the s: those proletars name of the Hardin is not one to conjure if the republican lled upon to wax < it recently Minnesota, str would di omission of the administr: an Prohibition and would be the hest—al Harding cards art denouncing reason to the nes from the puri, there for the de- a as te n n in lowa 15 sue court rmer” in demaj Mississippi to be little to get a h Farmers Feel Slighted. Dennis O'Leary sioux City ed- ftor, who ranks as one of the mid- west's authorities on rural economics and polities, ts, pletur tired of b victim of “the roulette wheel™” ers for relief from the cap amblers” on the Chicago 5 Tie is accustomed to prices, and prices that are antly being revised upward, for rm Implements. his clothing, his fare freight ~for everything eds and But when he his own produca to market the has to be content with the prices “the rou- lette wheel” fixes It is bec into desperatio the r that the we the chan fense ATin S, being ground ankruptey by that wheel tern farmer iz groping for relief in whatever direction, how ver indefinitely, it seems to be able. The “sound” and panaceas to which in th been adjured to trust rural credits) his present pl other method: kind or by whom offered Accepts Big Promises, They can be, he argues. desp ently, no worse than those been trying, so the comes and promises millenial reforms | they're eagerly invoked. That_ex- plains Brookhart. It explains Mag- nus Johnson. It will explain a clean sweep for radicalism in the midwest in 1824 unle: substitutes for the “roulette wl tem are devised and put in operation. Stabillzation of prices and arty | the | | chores, ! tribulations { with limita- there are THE EVENING STAR, tlon of interest rates seem to be the paramount necessities, according to thes lowa farmer, if genuine relfef is to be afforded him. He thinks, with- out having worked out the scheme very scientifically, that it Congress evolved a method of guaranteeing the railroads a 5% per cent return on their operations, statesmen ought to be able to find means of stabilizing the farmer's income. That can only be achieved, he thinks, by federally controlled price-fixing. Such a system, he points out, would automatically stop the gyratiens of thé “roulette wheel.” Iowa herself has just taken a practical step in the direction of helping the farmer to get better prices by enacting a state warehousing act and creating the office of state secretary of agricul- ture to administer it and other rural affairs, Can Borrow on Crop. Under the act, which is about to come into gperation, the grain bins of any farmer are converted state warehouses by the simple ex- pedient of . having their contents “sealed” by an official, who actually the grain under lock and key e certificate as to and value. The underlyin e is to enable the farmer to store his own produce until market prices make it ad- vantageous to sell. In the meantime he can borrow on his own warehouse certificates from his local banks, which, in turn, can use the paper as negotiable collate in the financial reserve citles. Iow first _secretary of ugriculture, Ra mond Cassidy, is hopeful the new warehousing act will bring effectivi relief from the “roulette wheei” system. See Ultimate Brenk. Tow who deplore the p combination, *h the farmer-labor alliance represents take heart of grace from the fact it is not a natural aflinity. . they up and ilroad trades comrade, on mill-hand are its quanti brother, and_the “pulling farme sky-high prices, in the Jowa there was a st the ruralist insists the shall nuot have preferentiul tr ment. A bill was introduccd provid- ing for the building of shelters in railway yard pable of ackmen, switchmen, and other rail in rough weather. A dirt the heart of the corn and vehemently objected, Just been some cyclonic weather in his region. He told in homely language how he had been out in the worst of it, attending his stock and other indispensele weather or no weather Bill Was Defented. “We haven't shelters hese things hit u id_th and I don't see t be any on t ouds. was defeated. belleve that the farmer worm will soon turn and not be such_ easy pickens for the labor bird in To cultural 1ilding ind r supe moditi showing that orer in tow! when armer. should It not ssion, one s struck the sub- Iowa farmer s other midwest sectlons have cen hit. Through thrift in better times, he is said to be in pr 00d s to stand the present strain, though not exactly bearing it wit w grin. About 40 per_cent of Iow furmers are tenants. They are fee ing the pinch. nly their that and_his kind are exploiting. are behind interest, mortgage payments, rent and taxes, They owe the store- keepers. Commoditics are h produce prices, It is a fertile fleld for a trouble-maker to plow, and Brookhart steers a wicked ha row. 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Deep lot to wide alley. E We Invite Inspection. Price and Terms Reasonable Open and Lighted Daily Until 9 P.M. D. J. DUNIGAN into | werful | The bill { the face of this state, so lavishly | blessed by mother nature. The big towns like Des Moines and Sloux City, Dubuque and Davenport, Mason City' and Marshalltown, seem to be basking in a prosperity that must be a reflection of the times in the agri- cultural hinterland. Proud of Their State. fowans proudly inform the eastern tenderfoot that they have 500,000 automobiles and that, If necessary, the entire population of 2,250,000 coulg be transported out of the state n a night. When Lord Robert Cecil contemplated a typical Iowa corn- field last April, rivaling in size the dimensions of an English county, he said that the Hawkeye farmer views his world “with an almost Olympian indifference.” Yet Senator Brookhart shrieks that fhe Towa ruralist, far from being monarch of all he surveys, is hover- ing on the brink of despair. 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