The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 21, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
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Urges Religious Tolerance
?rom time immemorial man has
/ays fought for those things he
ds dearest to his heart, namely,
home and his religion. It is
lost useless to say that it was
this freedom that he fought
i died, thift he might live and
as he wished. The result
he revolt against the old cus-
3 and beliefs is the new Amer-
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ways, in America, man has
as he wished as long as he
lot infringe upon the other
rights. He is allowed to
his house of worship on
v morning or any other day
’ailed to service,
has the privilege of holding
any '^public office without regard
to his religion. And each day
vwe have dealings with men who
of various different religious
lets, and we think nothing of
tfyis. But now that a man has
bben chosen to carry the standard
>f his political party in a race
for the highest position that any
freeborn American can attain, his
religious beliefs are questioned
by persons who get out on the
street comer and castigate his
platiorm because of the fact that
it has been stated by the other
person, who says someone else
aid that he was not fit to be
•esident.
Kind friends, if YOU are
oad minded citizen, you will
ndfc pollute your mind by listening
to jany of these talks. This is
the' .day of the radio and if you
niuslt hear some political speeches,
jjtunei in on some of the candidates’
own i speeches. In this manner
you will hear directly from the
ipeaker that which he intends to
'o if he carries the Vote.
Our forefathers had many a
ight race and it was seldom, if
ver, that religion was the main
4ue. In fact, some of the out-
riding figures in American his-
torw have written treatises on this-
subject.
»e author asks all readers of
this (to do it without the least
prejudice, with a clean and clear
toiiuJ and then give it your un-
biased opinion, for it is NOT in-
tended to be for either side, but
ily to create in the minds of the
’qters the old spirit that our pre-
essors had and used upon all
istfites.NpBy a Student of the So-
ial Sciencet department, S. H. S.
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Discusses Farm Belief
In the concluding weeks of the
•esidential campaign our energies,
(Torts and logic, if we have any,
riould be concentrated upon the
rhal issue, farm relief, which must
be\ settled sooner or later. The
Republicans have maneuvered very
adroitly for the last seven and
alf years to submerge this
great issue and for the second
time trampled farm relief into the
dust by the veto of Calvin Cool-
idge, but "truth is mighty and
when crushed to the earth will
rise again,” so the cohorts of
Cal Coolidge picked the “miracle
man”, Herbert Hoover, to follow
in Cal's footsteps, as it will be
a miracle if the American farmer
will submit to further exploita-
tion. What is farm relief? Let
us see if we can diagnose this
case.
First, we are the greatest com-
mercial nation on this planet,
built upon manufacturing, trans-
portation, finance and agriculture.
Second, we have found it im-
perative to use the Congress and
State Legislatures to line all these
great industries in their proper
spheres of usefulness. The manu-
facturer went to the Halls of our
National Congress and made it
very plain that in order to keep
the wheels of their plants going,
and to keep up a decent standard
of living, they must have a pro-
tective tariff to keep out foreign
made goods, and so a tariff or
tax is levied against foreign made
goods to which the Democrats
give assent to the extent that such
tariff should not exceed sUch a
sum necessary to maintain bur
present standard of living for
American workmen. So the man
ufaeturer gets his legislation. The
railroads and all public utilities
also go to the house of legisla-
tion and demand a fair return
on their investments, so courts
and commissions of all kinds are
created which stand ready to pro-
tect this class of our commercial
life and our Federal government
has proven to be a steadfast ally
of our railroads and public serv-
ice utilities, which it should be.
enumerated have been enacted to
keep the commerce of our nation
from going on the rocks, and such
legislation is imperative. Now,
mind you, all of these industries
are based upon the chief basic
industry of agriculture, which dur-
ing the Wilson administration was
the beneficiary of several laws,
but was so hard hit by the de-
flation period following the World
War that when the farmers took
an inventory at the close of 1927,
they found that their farm in-
debtedness had increased ten bil-
lions of dollars from 1910 till
1927 or from four billion in 1910
to fourteen billion at the begin-
ning of 1928; that in 1927 there
were 830 bank failures with total
liabilities of more than $270,000,-
000, almost entirely in the agri-
cultural west. The value of farm
lands decreased more than twenty
billion dollars from 1920 to 1923,
Nor was this all: the saddeBt part
was the foreclosure and ruin of
many farmers. The boys and
girls began treking to the' cities
and possibly the worst is yet to
come.
The farmers appealed to Con-
gress and met their Waterloo in
Calvin Coolidge’s veto power. They
appealed this year to the Kansas
City Republican Convention only
to be driven from the doors of
the convention hall.
Mr. Coolidge nor Mr. Hoover
have shown any real conception
All Happy
Daddy was elected president of
Mexico just a little while before
this picture was snapped and
Baby seems as pleased as anybody
over the honor. Daddy is E. Portes
Gil, elected by the Mexican legis-
lature to serve the term for which
Obregon was ieected before his
assassination.
of Western agriculture. They do
not understand that the West and
the South are engaged in com-
mercial agriculture, raising cotton
and grain, sixty per cent of which
has to find a foreign market, to
feed and clothe the world. The
Western farmer is in business the
same as the factory, railroad, mer-
chant and bank, but when he
raises a surplus he is told he
raised too much and he faces
bankruptcy. And when drouth or
other causes bring failure he is
told that he is lazy and did not
raise enough. So he it victimized
in every way, but realizes more
from a short crop than a large
one, which should not be.
This is indeed one of the big
issues of our boasted civilization
and must be settled ■ right. What
a pity to see some of our farmers
so ignorant as to let the piffle of
other issues divert their attention
from his real economic interest.
'The farmers demand a law—
one that will enable them to take
their surplus off the market and
hold such surplus as a reserve to
replenish production when they
fail to grow sufficient crops to
meet the world demand. It is
all right to have a gold reserve
which you can neither wear nor
eat, but the Republicans think it
paternalistic to hoard a reserve
of breadstuffs and clothing. His-
tory does not show that this world
ever grew a surplus of food and
clothing which was not needed
sooner or later by its people.
The farmers appealed to the
Democrats at Houston; they were
taken in and given shelter and
promised to nurse them back to
prosperity and happiness.
Now what did Mr. Hoover say
to them in his speech of accept-
ance, wherein he exhibits the most
arrogant ignorance of the wants
and needs of agriculture. He
said something about freight
rates and interwater ways. He
never did say that he would wring
the water out of the Inflated rail-
way stock and see that only just
and fair freight rates would be
charged against the farmer’s
product. Mr. Hoover seems to
be impregnated with the Coolidge
idea that the farmer in the West
should direct his energy as the
Eastern and European farmer
does, wherein he raises food under
intensive cultivation for immediate
home consumption with nothing to
export, and Mr. Hoover so stated
in his speech at West Branefc, *
Iowa. He does not seem to know
that a Western farmer equip* ,
himself for growing grain and
makes Ms investment in grata
growing machinery in addition $S
his investment in a soil which in
peculiarly adapted to grain grow-
ing.
The farmer, to grow grain and
cotton, makes his plans the sama
as any other industrial investment
and he knows his own business
and knows the legislation needed
the same as other commercial
businesses. But Mr. Hoover tells
the farmers that they do not
know how to run their business
and that he (Mr. Hoover) and
the Republican party knows best
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everyone, and is so delici-
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Your Grocer has it
Then comes finance for recog-
nition and of course they get
theirs. Their last great achieve-
ment was the Federal Reserve
Act, which will likely continue for
many years, as it has proven to
be a wise piece of legislation in
giving elasticity to obr currency.
We have learned that a system
of finance is indispensable to any
civilization and feel proud of our
Federal Reserve Act.
Legislation along the lines here
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Bones, Percy W. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 21, 1928, newspaper, October 21, 1928; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528916/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.