COURTING THE FARMERS
AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN GOVERNOR LANDON IN THE MID-WEST Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DBS MOINES, September 22. Governor Landon made one of the most important addresses _ of his campaign to-day with the elucidation of his agricultural policy as a bid for midwestern farm support. What the Republican candidate proposed as a substitute for the New Deal agricultural programme was a so-called domestic allotment plan, under which producers would receive cash subsidies on the domestically consumed portions of exportable products, such as wheat, hogs, cotton, and tobaccoi Without giving the details, Governor Landon explained that such subsidies would be equivalent to tariff benefits received by industry. Although vigorously . attacking President. Roosevelt’s, policy as promoting a scarcity, the.nominee said that, if he was elected, he would meet all the financial obligations to farmers contracted by ’ the Government, and continue to give full drought relief.
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Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 11
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143COURTING THE FARMERS Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 11
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