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Like the militia at Lexington, the straggling but powerful forces of the nation's industrial states rallied in the House last week to shoot down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. There were some who thought that the shot would ring through the next session of Congress, might well signal the beginning of the end for the whole ramshackle $7 billion-a-year farm-subsidy program. The battle began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat. In a straight party-line vote, they engineered the defeat (108-92) of...
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