The single and solitary purpose of the MeNaryIlaugen bill is to give to the farmer as big a dollar for the products of his toli during the next five yearsas the dollar that he is forced to pay to industry under the FordneyMcCumber Act and to labor under the existing geinerous wage scales. and in all candor we desire to ask of Congress and of the country. is there anything unfair about this proposal? Can the farmer be expected. on the one hand. to bear a large share of lhe burdens imposed by Industry and labor who have created living conditions of their own liking. and then. on the other hand. accept a price for his wheat. hogs. cattle. and other surplus farm commodities. at home and. abroad. established in competition with the peasant and peon farmers of time whole world? If the American manufacturer is unwilling to meet the foreign manufacturer on an even footing. and if labor believes that the time for absolute exclusion. with reference to immigration. has come. then should they ask the six and a half million farmers of this country to do what they themselves refuse to do? Through the McNaryHaugen bill we have approached this situation as best we knew how. For four long. weary months this measure has stood the fire of the opposition before the House and Senate committees and during this time we have sought to cure every fair and valid objection made against its various provisions.
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