Vote Now

Vote Now

And Don’T Howl Later

Friday night the fanners of the county will meet in the Courthouse to vote their approval or disapproval of the proposals in the Family Farm Review.

The committee of fanners in Rappahannock minced no words in voicing their opinions of the proposals. They said exactly what they wanted and didn't want, hut the opinions are not worth the paper they are written on if the farmers of the county do not support them. It is the majority vote that carries any weight in a democracy.

Tne Congress is not expected to pay any attention to a list of recommendations voiced by a committee. What they want is the opinion of all the farmers and then a Congressman can know what his people want. -•

The Success of the opinions expressed will depend entirely upon how many farmers of Rappahannock turn out to the meeting tomorrow and vote.

This is still a free country. We abide by the majority rule. Sometimes other sections of the country out-vote us in a subject. Sometimes we find that they were right and we were wrong; and sometimes we can say, “I told you so; I didn’t vote for it.” But unless you vote, you have no right to make any statement later. The success or failure of this report from farmers will stand on how many farmers voted.

If every farmer in the county isn’t present td cast his vote of approval or disapproval, the committee’s report might just as well be thrown to the four winds and let the government take over the complete dictation. A farmer deserves to have the government tell him what he can and cannot do if he hasn’t sufficient interest to vote his own opinions and defend his rights.

We’ve heard all kinds of talk about this Family Farm Review. We've been told it’s a second Brannan Plan because the first one fell through. We’ve heard it’s a fight between the Farm Co-operatives and the Agricultural Department, whereby the Department wishes to prove that the Co-operatives have no power. We’ve been told that the whole scheme is a step toward socialistic agriculture.. We’ve heard that it’s a slick method to obtain Truman votes in 1952.

We hear so many tales—and probably all tales have been told to conceal the real truth of the Review—we don’t know what to believe. But the fanner knows that he can attend his meeting and, with all the rest of the farmers of the county, vote either approval or disapproval of the committee’s recommendations. His vote—combined with a majority of the votes of the other farmers —will carry weight in seeing that the government is running the way he wants it run, doing the most good for the most farmers and still trying to curb exhorbitant government spending and get the nation back on a budget that will reduce the national debt.