Word: haugenism
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Then he made a Farm Relief speech. He mentioned that, in 1921, the Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Henry Cantwell Wallace) recommended the first of the fiercely-disputed McNary-Haugen Bills and that President Coolidge vetoed the two McNary-Haugen Bills which Congress passed. He contended Herbert Hoover favored U. S. agricultural production for Home Demand, as opposed to World Demand. He said...
...from Illinois who used to make plows at Moline, Ill.; who served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
After the second vetoing of the McNary-Haugen bill last spring, Mr. Peek threatened the Republican Party with dire happenings. Nothing happened. Then he went to Houston and had the satisfaction of seeing the controversial principle of McNary-Haugenism written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...
...Yoakum detests politics in business not for business. Last May, he urged President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
...gave heed to the heart of B. F. Yoakum's long letter: "The Democrats can present a marketing plan that is sound, practical and would be profitable to the farmers of the entire country, but they cannot do it by picking up the discarded remnants of the McNary-Haugen bill and following the false prophets of that discarded and exploded theory. They don't hold the farm vote in their pockets. They can't deliver it and any one who thinks they can will be deceived...