[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER IV 14/64
Call Congress in extra session mainly to revise the tariff and incidentally to prepare the way for rural credit societies. Mr.Taft set the stage admirably in 1909 when he promptly called an extra session; but then he let the villain run the play.
To get the main job in hand at once will be both dramatic and effective and it will save time.
Moreover, it will give you this great tactical advantage--you can the better keep in line those who have debts or doubts before you have answered their importunities for offices and for favours. The time is come when the land must be developed by the new agriculture and farming made a business.
This calls for money. Every acre will repay a reasonable loan on long time at a fair interest rate, and group-borrowing develops the men quite as much as the men will develop the soil.
It saved the German Empire and is remaking Italy.
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