TEXAS SOLON SEES NOTHING FOR FARMERS
Connally, Tom
TEXAS SOLON SEES NOTHING FOR FARMERS Sen. Tom Connally Tells 'Wild Jackasses'' to Stay Out of Halter BY TOM CONNALLY (United States Senator from Texas) This is the situation in which the...
...We tried to do something for you, but we could not make the grade...
...The debenture was thrown out...
...Nothing for Corn Farmer "Well," says Mr...
...A $2,606,968,000 drop In the seven motor companies included In the group contributed 96 per cent of the total depreciation...
...Ax long as a wild jackass is unroped and unmuzzled, as long as he is out on the range he is a free being...
...Every Other Kind of Farmer will say: "What did you do for me...
...How much would it cost us...
...but when it came to getting results we were not able to accomplish anything...
...He will say: "What kind of a farmer did you help...
...What will b* the attitude of the Senators when they go back to their constituents...
...Mr...
...We tried to give him five million dollars, your dollars, dollars from every farmer...
...How much...
...We have pleaded for all of the fanners through the debenture...
...Son of Wild Jackass" Let me suggest to my progressive friends, you sons of the wild Jackass, do not let the regulars put the halter on you...
...The House of Representatives would veto it...
...I am poking no jibes at you...
...Then we are going beak to the farmers and tell them that we were unable to do anything for them...
...BILLIONS LOST IN LEADING STOCKS NEW YORK—An appraisal of 100 leading stocks shows a loss of $2,709,-474,000 in the recent Wall Street crash...
...You mean to say, Mr...
...We are not going to get it...
...Cotton Farmer and Mr...
...It would cost you $54,000,-000...
...Let me suggest to the progressives that they do not delude themselves about trie flexible tariff...
...We tried to help the sugar farmer...
...Well, we voted for the debenture...
...We did not do anything...
...Yes, but what became of the debenture?'' "The debenture is over in the presidential waste basket...
...Wheat Farmer will say: "What did you do for the wheat farmer...
...As long as you are wild you are free, and I am one of you...
...We did not do anything for you...
...That sort of an argument Is not going to stand up...
...Corn Farmer, "what did you do for me...
...The President would veto such a law...
...Automobile stocks were most severely hit...
...Senator, that you wanted to tax us $54,-000,000 in order to get $5,000,000 for a few beet farmers In Ohio and in Colorado and in Nebraska...
...We talked awfully loud, and we filled in a great many columns in the newspapers about you...
...That sort of a plea will not get you the votes...
...but if you let the stand-pat regulars once get the halter on you, if you surrender your necks to the yoke you are going to be in bondage throughout the rest of the consideration of the tariff bill...
...We talked loud for you...
...Tom Connally Tells 'Wild Jackasses'' to Stay Out of Halter BY TOM CONNALLY (United States Senator from Texas) This is the situation in which the coalition is going to be placed, the position in which those of us who have been advocating progressive measures in the Senate are going to find ourselves...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
