President. that it is a sounder public policy for the Government to also protect the farmers that produce the cotton for the protected railways to haul and the protected manufacturers to weave. A bale of cotton on a farmers wagon represents just so much of the farmers labor. and the efforts of the Government to help the farmer get a profitable price for his cotton is nothing more than the efforts of the Government to help him get a little better price for his labor. If it be paternalism for the Government to help the farmer secure a better price for his labor. then why is it not paternalism for the Government. through its commissions and courts. to guarantee a profit to publicservice corporations of the country. and through its railway and immigration laws to give protection and help to organized labor in every other industry? England helps her rubber producers. Brazil her coffee producers. and Cuba her sugar producers. but we are told that it would be paternalism for America. the richest country on the face of the globe. to help her farmers. who have been produeing at a loss for the last 40 years.
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