Speech #690135428

There are the clothes of the farmers wife and his children Again. by the interstate commerce law and amendments and dependents. constituting a large percentage of the cost of thereto. by the EschCummins law of 1920. the railroad comliving. There is his food. manufactured and manipulated after panics of our land have been given power enormously to init has left him. if it is a farm product. that has to go through crease their rates. and the Government has by these acts ala processing operation. and by monopolistic methods. by con- lowed enormous profits to go to them and to their stockholders. binations and understandings. the prices of those articles of food And while those who produce the basic agricultural products have been raised to high levels by the time they reach or get suffer the awful disaster of low prices. the transportation comback to the farmer. If the products have to go through some panies that transport these products. by legislation receive manufacturing process before the food Is edible or in the form enormous profits by reason of law. desired. the prices are raised to a level wholly unjustified and Again. legalized labor organizations. whose members work excessive. for these railroad companies. by reason of Immigration laws. The farmer also has to buy. and extensively. things he does by reason of other laws enacted in behalf of labor. and by not produce--sugar. clothes. a hundred little articles that have reason of their compact organization have increased their been manufactured. He must pay for all those things at the wages and stabilized their wages. level of prices that obtain for industrial products in this coun- Again. likewise the banks of our country are by law protry.