Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 8

NORWICH BULIEI'IN,FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1922 (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) President Harding devotes more at- tention to farming and raiffoads than to any other subjects, in his ldst mes- vage to congress. This ought to be enough to show you and me that we haven't been far off our trolley in tal ing as much as we have about those two things, lately. To begin with, the president officially and formally confirms as true -the a sertion of farmers that they were first and worst in the deflation W followed the war. “The first distr re-adjustment came to the farmer tays. Tio calls attention to the fact that, ' s ostensily for arm relief, “this congress already has taken cogni of the misfortune which pr deflation hrought American agriculture.” Tho transportation problem, one “do- manding the most rigorous considera- tion of congréss and the country.” has to do with more than agriculture, of | course. “It is the channel for the flow | of the . country’s commerce. But'—! Let's make a fresh paragraph for this| next quotation: to “But the farmer js particularly hard hit. Flis market, so affected by worid | consumption, docs not admit of price adjustment to mest carrying charges. | Tn the last haif of the year mow cios- ing the raflways, broken in carrying ca-| pacity because of roiling power and mo- tive stock out of: order, though instst- ently declaring to. the contrary, embar- goed his shipments or denied him cars when fortumate markets were calli Too frequently transportation failed | while perishable products were turning ! from possible profits to losses counted | in tens of millions.” Have you and I sald anything more sweeping or more emphatic than that, in the course of - our different talks; about the way in whicw deflation’ and ! rallroad rumpuses have swatted the farmers of the country? If some of my non-farming readers Have thought I was, perhaps, a little biased by svm-l pithy for my fellow-farmers, if they have pooh-poohed my complaints on the theory that “the farmers are always| finding fault about something,” I hope: they’ll ask themselyes how it h:ppensi that President Harding, himself a non- tarmer, out-spokenly cerroborates wus| and adds his voice to our complaints? Let me ask’ you 'tb réad anéther quo-; tation: “Had we ‘escaped the coal and rail-| way strikes, which had no.excuss or their beginning and less justification for their delayed settlement, wé shouid | have done infinitely better. . . . In th2 folly of comflict our progress was hin- dered, and. the heavy cost has not yet been fully estimated, . . . The railway . Agriculture is a vital activ- ity in our national Iife. In it we had our beginning, and its westward march with the star of empire has reflected the growth of the republic. It has its vicissitudes which no legislation wni prevent, its hardships for h no law can provide escape. But the congress can make available to the farmer the financial facilities which have been | built up under government aid and su-| pervision for other commercial and in- dustrial enterprises.” This, President | Harding declares, not- only “may Dbe done,” but “MUST BE. DONE.” All this, as youTl readily understand has to do with giving farmers increased credit facilities; enabling them to bor-: Tow more money at need, and on easier terms, Anyone can easily see that the| same rules which govern a bank's lend- ings to merchants or manufacturers whoee goods “turn over” every sixty or nminety days, won't fit the conditions of either crop or livestock farming, where from six months to three years are ne- cessary for a similar “furn: over.” So far as changes in the banking lzws may provide for this différence in conditions, & betterment of the farmer's borrowing’ status may work for good in many ! cases. This, however, i matter for dis- cussion and for aHowable difference. of opinion. It certainly doesn't cover the whole ground. President Harding frankly admits as much.. He goeS on: “But American agricultare meeds more than added credit facilities; The credits will help to solve the - pressing problems growing out .of war-inflated land values and the drastic defiation of s THE BIGGEST QUESTION and the one most frequently heard for the next week or two, will “What shall I give to him?” “Ws so hard to find 4 gift for 2 man.” If he has an office or den, onfheham’i, here are a few >l costs an@ prices which consumers W. N. BLOCK £2 Shetticket Street three years ago, but permanent and de- served agricultural good fortune _de- pends on better and cheaper transpor- tation.” h Brings us back to the question Iroads and railroad strikes, again. of that for the present. here’s one more final extract from the message, whicli I feel constrained ¢ make because it so magnificently sus tains one thesis you and I have been maintaining for many yearsi— “The wide spread between production P2 concerns every citizen of 1t contributes very largely to the unrest in agriculture, and must stand sponsor for much agaitst which we inveigh in that familiar term—the living. . No one doudbts the excess traceable to the levy of the middleman, but it would be unfair to charge him with all the responsibility Dhefora wa appraise what is exactc§ of HM<—Sw modernly complex life the consumer is much to blame because of his prodigal expenditure and his exaction of -service,” ectc. For this the president’'s suggestion s {Tht in line with that which we have talked over, again and again, viz: the importance of co-operative buying as well as co-operative marketing. Now, I don’t want to be understood as saying that these fragments which I have qucted are all there is in the message of interest. Far from it. The messagé is a rather unusually good one from start to finish. It has a firmness lof touch which suggests that President Harding is “getting on to” riously enough, all the way through it/ shows that he, the executive, is really closer to the people, more responsive to their call, and more devoted to their| | welfare than the four or five hundred congressmien at the other end of the| avenue, It may not be respectful but it is true to say that the country would be bettér off if that undigested and un- digesting mob undér the big dome would simply carry out the suggestions of the meseage and then—go home. Of course, they wom't. They've got to wrangle and splutter and clapper- claw each other, and kick up such a dust as to obscure the real issues. As i President Thomas Jefferson said, more But the republic. | +| the state; his_job. Cu-| than a hundred years ago, they'll ques-' tion everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour”—“By the hour?” Yea, verily, by the day and the week and the year—to the uttermost verge of eternity, if the limitations of law didn't shut them wp, automatically, on the fourth of next March! What a blessing | it would be if we could once more have a congress made up of such men as| Washington and Franklin who, as Jef- | ferson has testified, never spoke more than ten minutes at a time, and them only to the main point in debate, But Senator Podsnap and Congressman Hicklebury class themselves higher than Washington and Franklin; con- sider themselves more intellizent and want us to regard them as more pa- triotic. Which, no -doubt, contributes greatly to their own self-satisfaction— 8o long as they can get away with it. It is reported by WashinSton corres- pondents that several members of the farm bloc, so-called, are mnot satisfied with the message. Naturally, There are several members of that bloc whd are constitutionally satisfaction in anything outside of their own contrariety. Thefe are others who are so blinded by personal prejudice as to be unable to see clearly or act Teasonably. There aré also probably some demagogues in it, There are every other political organization, and {it isn't likely this is & miraculous ex- ception. But I think the sobet, séhsble, fore- seeing people on the farms will recog- nize a flavor of statesmanship in it. By thé way, I noticed, the other day. that The Man Who Talks for The Bul- letin couldn’t quite make up his mind, from a search of the dictionaries. what {was the difference betwen a ‘States. man” and a “politician.” I'm rehctant to be thought of as setting up a:mw: s|the dictionary. temptation to offer [tentative step toward accuracy. “statesman,” as 1 see him, is a man who lives and works for the welfare of a “politician” is a man who .| seeks first the advantage of His party. If that distinction fairly describes n real difference, I can't help but feel that President Harding’s latest méssage puts him on a plane of true statesman- ship. 1 haven't much hope that ocem- gress will rise to it, That . needn’t make us common folk the less apprecia- tive of the president’s plain speaking. and of his manifest desire to steer tha legislative body into comstructive per. formance, It ism't talk that’s wanted, now, but action. 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