Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska, stresses the necessity of an out-and-out liberalism with particular reference to "the agricultural zone". He goes on to commit himself to an agrarian platform by requesting for 1928 "a presidential nominee from the agricultural west and a vice-presidential nominee from the agricultural south...
Unity of party policy and promise is not required in congressional elections to any degree that a general outcry against "big Business" will not satisfy. Yet the definite disagreements as to where and how liberalism should be applied suggest that the Democratic party still faces its traditional urban-agrarian division; that its only solidifying element is opposition to Republication excess...
Next the super-demagogs of the Chamber attached an amendment to an article dealing with agrarian taxation providing that farmers should be allowed to evaluate the labor of their wives and children as "a contribution to the state" and then deduct this nebulous "value" from their tax payments. The Deputies, not daring to offend their rural constituents, voted this measure 416 to 100. M. Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that...
...agrarian economic order is inflexible; while the quantity of its produce is capriciously flexible with the whims of nature. There is no accurate way of forecasting over-production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial crop limitation at hand. There can be little of the selling out, merging, and re-investing that characterizes industrial fluctuation and enables manufacturers to weather variations in demand without serious loss. Geographically, socially, personally, the farmers are both set and separate...
...either a tariff for themselves or the abolition of duties on manufactures. They favor dumping regardless of the fact that it but transfers the hardships of crop fluctuation to foreign farmers. But despite the carelessness and heterogeneity of the agitation, several factors are obvious: crop fluctuation brings social distress; agrarian society is rigid and comparatively helpless; if any portion of the country requires sane governmental assistance, it is the farming portion...