HELPING THE FARMERS
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ACT SPEECH BY PRESIDENT . Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PREEMONT (Nebraska), September 28. ■ President Roosevelt _ stopped on his trip west to make an important speech on his agricultural policy before 20,000 listeners. He defended the Agricultural Amendment Act, including the curtailment features, althongh he admitted that the law contained some imperfections which were being revised from time to time as experience dictated. He recalled that on a campaign tour of Nebraska three years ago wheat was
I ' 30 cents and corn 20 cents a bushel. He said that for the past three years, under the Agricultural Amendment Act, farmers’ had gained an additional 5,300,000,000d01, and to a great extent their debt burden had been lifted. Answering charges that agriculture was under dictatorial control, he said that the Government was merely facilitating co-operative action among farmers. u The Agricultural Amendment Act is democracy in the good old American sense,” and he indicated that he did not consider it merely an emergency measure but a basis for a permanent national agricultural policy.
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Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 12
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173HELPING THE FARMERS Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 12
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