United States Senate
Washington, D.C.
Mar. 30, 1939.
My Dear Mother:
Sen. Ellender has the floor
speaking for more subsidy
for cotton. Since the New
Deal cotton has been a
golden calf here. The government
has advanced by so-called
loans to producers great
sums of money and taken
cotton as security until
a huge supply on government
cotton now casts a shadow
over cotton for years to
come. The price has fallen
and now cotton Senators
are trying to get more
of the taxpayers money
to develop the surplus on
foreign countries and
stabilize the price at home.
This is only one of the
dreadful consequences
of this intrusion of the
Federal government into
production.
Best love,
Warren