Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With everybody's eyes on Congress, everybody's mouth is full of that great organization, the Farm Bloc, which is to rule the country with a rod of straw. In another column we quote Congressman Anderson's refutation of most of the popular misconceptions of the function and purpose of the bloc...
...there are always hundreds of other people ready to shriek fire, murder, and sudden death at the very mention of so dangerous an affiliation. As usual neither fire, murder, nor sudden death has descended. Instead of a great group dominating the country and its politics, we find that the bloc is merely a comparatively small number of representatives of agricultural districts trying to lighten the very numerous trials and tribulations of the farmer by voting as a unit on agricultural questions. The Farm Bloc is a farm bloc pure, plain, and simple-and as such has a very definite place...
...Farm Bloc organization was formed primarily to get something done to relieve the agricultural situation in this country", said Congressman Sidney Anderson of Minnesota in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the organization and function of the Farm Bloc movement of which he is one of the leading members...
...farmer had to pay for and the income from what he had to sell. As a result the farmer was unable to pay his debts and was forced to go into liquidation at greatly reduced purchasing power in order to deal with this situation. And so the Farm Bloc arose as the creature of an emergency. It never had any formal organization, never compiled a list of members nor held open meetings, never took any votes as a body, never bound members to any program. Moreover it never took a united stand on any legislation save that dealing with agriculture...
...Everyone assumes that the bloc as a party tries to pass judgment on every political question. That is not true. There is just as much difference of opinion on most questions between members of the Farm Bloc as among any other group. We have never taken any stand on the bonus. In regard to the question of tariff we have taken the position that agriculture is entitled to the same protection as industry. Only yesterday I saw in the morning paper that the bloc was back of a raid upon the United States Treasury for a $15,000,000 appropriation...