Another group which will be behind the President next year is the agricultural community. "The URA. proved a failure; industry has been Going just as well or even better singe it was declared unconstitutional 'The A.A.A. has, however, undoubted! benefited the' farmers. Helped by drought and dollar depreciation, it has raised prices, not as much as it promised but enough to make the farmer feel that it. should be preserved. The method of the AAA. roughly was to raise prices by reduc Ing. production. Production was re~ duced by paying farmers for taking Tand. out of cultivation, the money being obtained by processing taxes levied on the industries (Ube millers and textile Industries) which processed the raw materials. The gentle Fain of cheques, the Republicans bemoan, will raise a plentiful harvest of Democratic votes.
The Government's unemployment policy, with which must be coupled public works policy, is, however, another matter. Republicans dare fuct attack the New Deal too openly for establishing the AAA. but can and do riddle it unmercifully for its mismanagement of the relief problem, fis futile efforts to absorb the unemployed through public works pro-Jeets, and lis extravagance in organizing relief activities.
'Will Senator Borah Run'
Senator Borah, who is being suggested as Republican candidate and who has not as yet denied the report, recently wrote to young "Teddy" Roosevelt suggesting that the Re~ publican party must return to the principles of his father and to the country with @ programme of "down with monopoly." To which Theodore Roosevelt, jun. replied that free competition was essential, Government extravagance without any thought for the Increased burden taxation to which It would lead and the top-heavy bureaucratic structure
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