Word: agrarian
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...White House breakfast next morning, the President with the aid of good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...
...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
...curious reversal of the tariff situation which is taking place in the United States. In the days of Cleveland and Bryan the Middle--Western farmers were vigorous opponents of the large protectionist manufacturers. Now, as the Canadian Forum points out, many manufacturers are becoming free trade advocates while numerous agrarian organizations favor a reasonably high tariff. Particularly do the farmers see the need of duties on agricultural imports which can be produced at a much cheaper rate in Canada, Argentina, and New Zealand. The manufacturers, on the other hand, due to improved, automatic machinery and quantity production find themselves able...
...condition of the country is on the whole prosperous, and that there is no need to be concerned about the recent fall of prices on the New York Stock Exchange. 2) That he expected a favorable outcome in the negotiations with Mexico over the application of their new agrarian laws. 3) That he wanted to see the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation divorced and the latter put under a single head for reasons of efficiency, but he did not care whether the head of the Government merchant fleet is responsible to him or to Congress; until Congress clears...
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...