Wheat Pools in Canada and the United States

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As the 1928 presidential campaign enters its final stage, agricultural relief tends to emerge as the “paramount” issue. Mr. Hoover in his address of acceptance, August 11, said the condition of the farmers presented “the most urgent economic problem of our nation today.” Governor Smith's first campaign speech in the Middle West, delivered at Omaha, September 18, was devoted wholly to the question of farm relief. In response to a question: “Do you believe that liquor is the great issue-in this campaign?” he said, “I certainly do not.”

Although the economic position of the farmers has improved materially since the severe depression of 1922–23 and the beginning of the McNary-Haugen movement, there still is wide-spread distress and dissatisfaction throughout the agricultural areas of the Middle ...

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