But no farming nation can suffer great crop losses without being set back financially and starved to where it hurts.

You've got to figure God's laws into your human calculations.
"Bryan might as well try to dodge the hungry days by advocating the free and unlimited coinage of tomato cans," is the way one of the fellows put it; "then every man could borrow a dollar and buy a can of tomatoes.
After eating the tomatoes he could coin the can into a dollar and buy another can of tomatoes.

And so on until he got too old to eat, and then he could use the last dollar from the tin can in paying back the banker." Schemes like that are all right for orators and agitators who make their living with words.

But farmers and iron workers know what it is that turns clods into corn and what makes the iron wheels that bear it to market.

It is muscle applied with the favor of God.
Without labor, no crops.