FARMERS: Relief?

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Economic discomfiture for a people is political discomfiture for a government. And yet so strange is the structure of modern U. S. politics that the present Administration has survived while the Nation's farmers have felt themselves sick unto death.

For five years the farm-threat has hung dagger-like above the Republican party. But so impotent has been the Democratic party that the farmers have never let the dagger drop except to prick here and there a political life. For three and one-half years, President...

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