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I certainly saw nothing radical in that. We had had minimum wage laws in the United States and had operated them well. The Republicans didn't shudder at such things, as many people claim. They voted for the minimum wage laws in Massachusetts. The minimum wage laws were put on the books in Massachusetts in a Republican administration. I will admit that Republicans, and Democrats too, in the agricultural area did not understand these things. These remedies are appropriate for an industrial area. I never thought about whether they were appropriate to an agricultural area or not. However, I could figure out that if the people in the cities who worked in factories were out of work, or if their wages were so low that they were not a substantial market, the price of grain would fall. If they couldn't buy bread, butter, milk, meat, potatoes and whatever else the agricultural areas produced, it wasn't going to be so good for the agricultural areas. They had to find a market.

I will admit that with regard to the cotton farmers I had no knowledge whatever of their economy. I knew that the economy of cotton as an agricultural product was tied up closely with the textile industry. The textile industry I knew pretty well. I knew that they were always figuring to buy cotton cheap and that the cotton farmer was always figuring to raise the price of cotton if there was a conflict at