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100 RESOLUTIONS.
PETITIONING FEDERAL FARM BOARD TO WITHHOLD
SURPLUS GRAIN AND COTTON FROM
THE MARKET.
H. C. R. No. 11.]
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS, To a no inconsiderable extent prosperity is dependent
upon the profitable cultivation of the soil; and
WHEREAS, Due to economic conditions and unemployment,
market demand for farm products, more particularly wheat and
cotton, has fallen far below that of normal years, which, in natural
sequence, has resulted in a surplus which in turn has seriously
and adversely affected the exchange value both of farm
land and of farm products; and
WHEREAS, Reduced to economic terms, such surplus is in
fact a liability and not an asset, serving only to depress the sale
or market value of land and agricultural products, thus aggravating,
and extending the period of the presently existing industrial
depression; and
WHEREAS, The "carry over," whether of grain or cotton, is
not, as a whole, properly to be regarded as a surplus, but in no
small part as a reserve securing the whole population against
possible years of inadequate production; and
WHEREAS, Government and the people governed are not
things apart and that provision upon the part of government
against unknown quantities of an inscrutable future is but the
part of wisdom; and
WHEREAS, A philosophy which treats of an annual yield of
the needs of cviilization limited to such needs for a current year
is unsound in principle and unsafe in practice; and
WHEREAS, It is equally unsound in principle and unfair in
morals that the burden of providing security for the future be
imposed upon the agricultural group alone; therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Representative, the Senate concurring,
That the Federal Farm Board be therefore petitioned
to withhold from the market, in everywise whatsoever, whatever
of surplus grain and cotton it, the said Board, may have acquired,
and that definite assurance be given that such surplus shall, in
the interest of the national welfare, be held as a national reserve
against possible future inadequacy of farm production; and
That the only possible effect of a surplus, as such, and not as
a definitely defined reserve, is, and will continue to be, a standing
hindrance to farm prosperity directly and to industrial rehabilitation
indirectly; it operates and cannot do otherwise than
operate to the profit of those of us who stand in the highway of
commerce dealing with the products of the land yet not engaged
in, nor subject to, the hazards of their production; and
That the Federal Congress be and it is hereby petitioned to
take such measures and enact such laws as may be necessary to
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1931-1933 [Volume 28], book, 1933; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17293/m1/108/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .