Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1936, Page 7

NG STAR, WASHINGTON, e e e O L At Roosevelt’s Speech on Trade Treaties President Tells Minnesotans That Commerce Must Be Co-Operative. 87 the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, October 10.—Following 35 the text of President Roosevelt's g:ech here last night at the Capitol il ding: As you know, I had planned to visit Minnesota on my trip of inspection to the drought areas the end of August. The untimely death of the Secretary of War ¢ kept me away. It was at that time . also that this State suffered a . to purchase manufactured goods. very great loss in the passing of a virile and magnetic American leader, Floyd Olson. He had been my friend for many years. I miss him greatly today. Much water has run over the dam since Floyd Olson presided at the great gathering to which I spoke in the Spring of 1932. Dur- ing these more than four years, one of our most important na- tional achievements has been the strides we have made everywhere in thinking in national terms. Never before has America been 50 united. We have come to understand that the agricultural prosperity of the Northwest is directly affected by the agricultral prosperity of the rest of the country. Georgia will buy Minnesota flour if Georgia gets a decent price for its cotton. Minnesota will buy overalls made of Georgia cotton if Minnesota gets a decent price for its wheat. Years Show Usefulness Of the Co-operative Ideal. People in the manufacturing cities will find more employment at better wages if the farm families of the Nation have the wherewithal And the farmers of the Nation will sell larger crops at better prices if the industrial workers in the cities have more money to buy dairy products, vegetables, fruit, pork and beef. In our local and sectional re- lationships—relationships between the various farm regions and be- tween city and country—we have in these four years come to recognize the closeness of the interdepend- ence and the usefulness of the co=~ operative ideal. Minnesota is a good place to talk about farm co-operatives. Here dairy and live stock farmers have pioneered and pointed the way. Here and in Wisconsin have been built the greatest co-operative or- ganizations in the Nation for pro- cessing and marketing dairy prod- ucts. ‘When in 1933 this administration undertook to meet the desperate and long-neglected needs of agri- culture, we turned to the co-oper- A—Rich, colorful embroidery against a foil of black, front shirring and a new high neck- linemake this frock memorable. ative idea, and called to Washing- ton representatives of the great co-operatives and other farm or- ganizations to work out a program with us. The Triple A itself had, as its foundation and its essence, the co- operative idea. Administered lo- cally by community committees, selected by the farmers themselves, it was a picture of economic de- mocracy in action. Support Is Pledged To Co-operative Ideal. I pay my tribute—with the rest of the Nation—to the patriotic zeal of the committees of farmers who did so much through their earnest co-operation for our adjustment and conservation program. The farmers of America will not forget what they have done, and what they are doing. This administration from the very start, came to the support of the co-operative ideal by vigorous action. That support has contin« ued. That support will continue. It established a central bank for co-operatives with 12 regional banks to aid in marketing and pur- chasing. It held out the helping hand of credit to production credit asso- ciations to enable farmers to finance production through their own banks. ‘The Triple A has worked directly with the co-operatives in their marketing agreement program. By loans to co-operatives we have helped to bring the comforts of electricity to many farms of the Nation. We did not stop at merely lend- ing money. When farm prices were threatened, the administration held them up by purchasing surplus products through farm co-opera= tives for distribution to hundreds of thousands of families faced with hunger in our great cities, People Themselves Must Foster Principle. Nevertheless, while the Govern- ment can help through its re- sources, we in Washington have recognized that co-operation and co-operatives must come from the people themselves. Government can see to it that the rules of the game are fair as between co-operative enterprise and other enterprise. But the initiative, the management itself must spring from and carry on from, the bottom up rather than from the top down. This administration is deter- mined to continue in active sup- port of the ever-growing farm co- operative movement. I am happy in the strengthening WOODWARD & LOTHROP of this movement at home. But let us remember that the same spirit of co-operation is an essen- tial part of our relations with the other nations of the world. It is this realistic appreciation of the benefit; of co-operation that lies behind our efforts to re-establish foreign markets for our farm prod- ucts. In the Spring of 1933 our for- eign trade had fallen off to about a third of its former value. That was what I inherited. Foreign Imports Necessary for Exports. The very word “trade” means ar- ticles of commerce flowing in two directions. It is not a one-way street. At last we understand this in our domestic trade. No single State can produce either crops or merchandise and continue indefi- nitely to sell them to other States for money alone. Eventually, they have to be paid for in other prod- ucts. Foreign trade is just like that. There cannot be a revival of for- eign exports without a revival of foreign imports—unless, of course, we do as we did between 1920 and 1930—Ilend our money to foreign nations to enable them to buy our own farm and industrial products. But America has learned her lesson once and for all about that kind of frenzied finance. The Secretary of State of the United States has spoken in Min- nesota clearly and unequivocally in regard to the trade agreements that have been made with 14 for- eign countries for mutual trade advantage. He pointed out to you the chapter and verse of the sta- tistical record which shows what We take the risk. You get perfect ser, packers and storage men who are in our employ the year round. MERCHANTS - TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. 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The fig- ures prove it, and our growing consumption and better farm prices prove it. - Every American—city dweller and farmer alike—ought to fasten this home truth in his memory: ‘When the nations of the world, in- cluding America, had jacked their tariffs to the highest point and enacted embargoes and imposed quotas—in those days farm prices throughout the world were at their lowest, and world trade had al- most ceased to exist. World Has Begun to Recognize This Truth. Today, under the leadership of the United States, other nations of the world are coming to recog- nize that home truth. Back in 1932, although there was a tariff on wheat of 42 cents & bushel, you all know that the wheat which you produced up here in the North- west was selling as low as 30 cents per bushel. There were no farm imports then to worry about, but low prices were plenty to worry about. Within the past two weeks D, 0, splendid progress has been made in giving a greater stability to . foreign exchange. Within that same time there have been lifted many quotas and embargoes, ine cluding those on important Ameri- can agricultural export products. But, my friends, the increasing restoration of trade, of industry and of employment serve more than a mere economic end. For three years we have had faith that it would turn us and other ndtions away from the paths of economic strife, which lead to war, and toward economic co-operation, which leads to international pace. Peace Must Be Based on Golden Rule. Peace cannot be attained merely by getting sentimental about it. Peace depends upon the accept~ ance of the principle of practice of the good neighbor. That practice is founded on the Golden Rule and must be fortified by co-opera- tion of every kind between na- tions. Peace makes money; peace saves money for everybody. A prospers ous world has no permanent room in it for dictatorship or for war. In striving for peace, I am confident that the American people seek it Wwith their hearts and their heads as well. Enlightened self-interest is justification for what we do. Confident in the practical wis- dom of the ends we seek, with full faith that it will serve in a practi- cal way for peace on earth and good will between men and na- tions, we shall continue on our way. . Missouri Suffrage Cradle. Missouri claims the honor of the first woman suffrage association, founded May 8, 1867, to have for its sole object the political emancipation of women; other organizations in- cluded it among other reforms. FREE LECTURE —ON — CHRISTIAN SCIENCE —BY — John Randall Dunn, C.S.B. of Boston, Mass. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bostow, Massachusetts In Constitution Hall 18th, C and D Sts. N.W. Sunday, October 11, at.3:30 P.M. 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