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...facilities for agricultural regions. Another was a great impulse towards diversified farming and more scientific methods. Another was a boost for cooperative marketing. Another was a farm bloc, then an insurgent bloc, and finally a third ticket in politics. Another was the cry that the railways are overcapitalized and freight rates need reducing...
...Freight Rates. The farmers' demand for lower freight rates, which was the one direct and easy way they could see of saving themselves money, will also be affected by higher prices. With economic pressure lessening, it is only logical that the demand should grow less insistent. More directly important in its bearing is the attitude which the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken on account of increased grain prices. The Commission had been considering whether freight rates were not too high in relation to the value of farm products hauled. Prices having risen, the Commission decided that freight rates need...
...Democrats destroyed balance between agriculture, industry and labor. Reduce taxes; lower freight rates; improve marketing; protective tariff on farm products; restore equality of prices between farmers' sales and purchases; Government assistance in cooperative marketing...
Railroads. The Esch-Cummins Act of 1920 promised cheaper freight rates, improved service, better labor conditions, peace between employer and employees, fair return to railways on their investments. Democrats favor these aims but contend the Act has not achieved them...
Readjustment of freight rates giving lower rates to bulky, low-priced commodities, farm produce, coal, ore, etc., and placing the higher rates upon more valuable, less bulky freight...