Bob La Follette wins fight to aid mortgage-ridden farmers.

PositionTHE 1930S FLASHBACK - Brief article

August 5, 1939, speech in Congress by Robert M. La Follette Jr.

I should like to say that it is one of those inexplicable inconsistencies in governmental policy to see farmers on farms--where their families, in some instances, have lived for two or three generations, who made mortgages in perfectly good faith at the time of high-farm prices and high-land values-to see those people foreclosed and turned away from their homes and put out upon the highways.

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After they have been stripped of all they possess, have been ground down through the cruel process of...

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