Last week Senator Huey Pierce Long could tell all the debtor-farmers of Louisiana and any others who cared to listen, that, singlehanded, he had caused to be enacted a major measure for their relief. The measure was the Farm Bankruptcy Act which President Roosevelt signed just before leaving for his holiday. In the final hours of the last session of Congress, Senator Long, filibustered this non-Administration bill to a vote, and a vote meant passage. The latest device to hoist the U. S. farmer out of his mudhole of debt provided that:
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