A REAL FRANK DECISION
Paine, Robert F.
A Real Frank Decision : : By ROBERT F. PAINE JOSIAH T. Newcomb, general counsel for Electric Bond & Share Co., controlling some 140 electric companies, General Electric included, speaking: "I...
...But, just as in the case of popular relief from old Demon Rum, what the farm folk especially need is education...
...Yerily, what he particularly needs is education in his own business...
...Rockefeller always appreciates it, when his left hindfoot of a graveyard rabbit is working right...
...Rockefeller's railroads, when they come to Mi...
...Rockefeller is a good churchman and familiar with that passage in the Bible which predicts that "To him that hath," etc...
...He combats the jamming through Congress, in its dying hours, of legislation by a majority made up, considerably, of "lame ducks...
...Of course, the farmer might do a little something, by co-operating and endeavoring to fix prices on his stuff...
...Kellogg and the Pennsylvania interests which are trying t® buy seats in the U. S. Senate...
...These little roads are now essential to big consolidations now in the making by the New York Central, the Van Sweringens and other promoters...
...This is quite believable...
...how to get around paying what transportation pools extort...
...how to put down the Chicago pit...
...Offhand and without consulting the stock quotations, we are inclined to predict that those promoters will get Mr...
...Will Mr...
...Rockefeller's price for his little railroads is very high, almost too high...
...But, they had united on a bill of relief, which the representative Congress investigated, studied and discussed for many months, and passed...
...Here we've been thinking that what the Bolshevists were after was our purses, boiled shirts and patent leathers...
...Rockefeller's price—but not until then, ? * * THEY WOULD STRIP US NAVY SECRETARY Wilbur has got it...
...Probably caught it from Kellogg...
...What the farmer generally needs, in way of relief, is evident to everybody who never farmed...
...Dispatches state that Mr...
...La Follettes do not compromise principle, make excuses for it...
...Those 1926 earnings are the corporation's greatest in any peace year and only exceeded by earnings in years of the World War...
...Upon advice of a Vermont backwoods lawyer in his cabinet, President Coolidge decided that the farmers and the Congress had produced an unconstitutional nostrum, which would poison the whole country if applied to what was ailing wheat, corn and cotton...
...COMING UNCLE JOHN'S WAY "TO HIM that hath" etc...
...INVITING A MESSAGE VISITORS at the White House report that President Coolidge is incensed at the ease with which power company lobbies hold up such public enterprises as Muscle Shoals and the Boulder dam...
...President Coolidge and Attorney General Sargent should teach the Midwest and Southern farmers all that they know about diversified farming from experience...
...Rockefeller...
...As to the cotton grower, he's & natural born idiot, on the face of things...
...They would buy of Mr...
...O Lord...
...Years ago, Rockefeller bought control of the Wheeling & -Lake Erie and the Western Maryland, two short railroad lines, in invidious comparison called "jerk-water roads...
...Likewise, when pork brings a high price, he shouldn't go in for more corn, but should plow his com land for gooseberries or such, and feed his pigs fence-corner jveeds...
...If we can only start a war with some country at which we can fire plenty of U. S. steel products, increased prosperity will be assured...
...Besides, adequate cooperation of farmers is very difficult, because the fanner is a human animal...
...From the Washington departments should be sent out an army of scientific farmers-on-paper, scientific fertilizer-spreaders, biologist's to fight bugs, etc., to teach the farmer how to gamble with the weather...
...how to plow up corn and wheat land for softer soil in which more hens can scratch, or more hogs root, at more profit...
...R. F. PAINE...
...However, it breaks out on Mr...
...One of the glistening ideas in diversified farming is the shortening of crops, which process can be relied upon to result in very fine prices on things of which the diversified farmer has raised but little...
...And he will get it, if his appeals for relief reach the governing oligarchy at Washington often enough...
...He wastes too much time in going down to Washington with his brains working on what he thinks he knows and wants, but doesn't...
...The "Invisible Government" made visible, Walk up to the polls, ladies and gentlemen, and vote in some grand old party that will give you representative government—if the power monopoly will permit it...
...The doggoned farmer works too hard...
...Moreover, Mr...
...Government of, by and for the people...
...First, diversified farming...
...He scared the N. Y. National Republican club 'most to death, on Lincoln day, by unveiling "a new peril (Bolshevist) declaring spiritual warfare on the people of this nation...
...It is simply awful, this new Russian terror...
...The farmers will kindly return to their plows and, hereafter, quietly vote the Grand Old Ticket, in the grand old way...
...Wilbur in a new way...
...Big price§_ on potatoes, corn, wheat, hogs this season, and the majority of him will surely go in for potatoes, corn, wheat and hogs as next season's big crop, just as the coming-iu of an oil well in a new field will draw a rush of speculators, well-diggers and wild-catters from the four corners of the-country...
...He scatters his sweat too much...
...The principle for which young Bob fights is right...
...Coolidge kindly give the country a special red hot message on the subject...
...WHERE WAR PAYS THE FINAL figures for 1926 show U. S. Steel net earnings of $199,-004,741, which, Judge Gary says, is a forecast of prosperity...
...and, moreover, it is a precious privilege permitted, exclusively, the oil, aluminum, steel, iron, railroad and other combinations...
...What A Us the Farmer THE REACTION to President Coolidge's veto of the farm relief bill is somewhat like this: A lot of ignorant, unconstitutional fanners, observing that the government relieved the railroads and fixed tariff prices on everything farmers consumed, went to Washington not knowing what ailed them, what they wanted, or what would be good for them...
...nor go to sleep when it is at stake...
...And the status of the Boulder dam and Muscle Shoals projects at Washington demonstrates that the combination of nine billion dollars is not letting the government function...
...This point should be studied by Mr...
...The country is likely to acquire the obsession that the big national projects mentioned are held up because some "itching palms" are being held out by congressmen...
...An enlarged navy, at once...
...Half of his cotton fields should always be in prunes, avocadoe3, cucumbers, strawberries and such...
...and now, it appears that they seek our spirituality...
...But, this would be unconstitutional...
...Heaven help us, if they bag our spirituality ! * * * RIGHT FIGHTING IT IS to be noticed, with gratification, that young Senator Bob La Follette is following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, in fighting the cloture rule...
...Take an I invoice and discover what thou A hast...
...When, for instance, wheat brings $2, he shouldn't go in for wheat but for carrots, beets or something as his next crop on his wheat land...
...A Real Frank Decision : : By ROBERT F. PAINE JOSIAH T. Newcomb, general counsel for Electric Bond & Share Co., controlling some 140 electric companies, General Electric included, speaking: "I represent an investment of $9,000,-000,000 and we do not propose to let the government enter the power business at Boulder Dam...
Vol. 19 • March 1927 • No. 3
