Socialist platform, because our movement considers the welfare of all our people in the generations to come.
- THE PRESENT-DAY STATE’S NEGLECT OF THE FARMING GLASS AND OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural production, which in itself is capable of being augmented, is being handicapped, because the increasing indebtedness of the farmers prevents their purchasing the necessities of cultivation, and because the fact that farming does not pay removes the induce¬ ment to increase production.
The reasons why farming fails to give a sufficient return for the labour are to be sought :
- In the existing fiscal policy, which lays undue burdens on agriculture. This is due to Party con¬ siderations, and because the Jewish world money market—which really controls parliamentary democ¬ racy in Germany—wishes to destroy German agricul¬ ture, since this would place the German nation, and especially the working class, at its mercy ;
- In the competition of foreign agriculturists, who work under more favourable conditions, and who are not held in check by a policy of protection for German agriculture ;
- In the extravagant profits made by the large wholesale middlemen, who thrust themselves in between producer and consumer.
- In the oppressive rates the farmer has to pay for electric power and artificial manures to concerns mainly run by Jews.
The high taxation cannot be met out of the poor return for labour on the land. The farmer is forced to run into debt and to pay usurious