Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-01
SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
In the form Of questions and answers
the Des Moines Capital presents some
solid tariff facts which should be OF
interest right now when so much mis-
information regarding the tariff is
being disseminated. The Capital says:
The Iowa farmer is selling his hogs
at SO per hundred or more.
What enables him to receive such
a price?
The answer is that the people Of
the United States are practically all
employed in occupations which give
back fair returns. The people have
the money with which to buy pork.
Why do the people of the United
States have plenty to do?
The answer is they have plenty to
do because they produce nearly every
thing which they wear or use. They
do not import from China, Japan and
India the products of the cheapest
labor in the world.
If the American ports were all
thrown open in the interest of the con-
sumner to give him cheap goods, the
consumer would be the first man in
iured. The consumer is carried In
the Imagination as a man who draws
a salary. II all our manufactured pro-
ducts were made in other lands, he
would not be drawing salary. He
would be out of employment. Under
no circumstances could he compete
with China, Japan or even France or
Belgium.
Why are cattle and hogs cheaper In
Canada than in the states? The
answer is Canada does not have peo-
pie enough to consume her own pro-
ducts. She must ship abroad. Give
Canada people enough to consume her
own products and certain classes OF
farming will be just as profitable IN
Canada as in the states.
When the Canadian farmer has all
he can do to grow the necessary pro-
ducts for Canada he will become a
rich man.
Why is cattle and grain growing in
Argentine and Australia not as profit
able as in the United States?
The answer is the farmers of Ar
gentine and Australia are compelled TO
ship all their surplus products abroad.
If the people Of Argentine and Aus
tralia were in sufficient numbers to
consume all their own products every
farmer in those countries would grow
rich
The question is now up to the Amer
lean farmer relative to the surrender
of the American market to the foreign
manufacturer.
When that is done, the American
farmer will find himself on an equality
with the farmers in Australia and Ar
gentine They have plenty of pro-
ducts, but no consumers.
The Iowa farmer would be broken
hearted if he were notified today that
the price of hogs had gone down to
$3.50 per hundred. The Iowa farmer
had better think this question over, re-
CARELESS Of any particular friends ne
NAV have among the politicians.
What is friendship to farmer when
the price of his hogs might go down
from 50 to $3.50?
BY the influence of the free traders
the Capital adds, there is no duty upon
the higher priced gloves for ladles.
AS consequence all such gloves are
made in France. There is a protec-
tive duty on mems gloves and they
are made in America. The manu-
facturers of gloves for ladies are
growing rich on the open American
market. The large department stores
in New York and Chicago are manu-
facturers of gloves for ladies and their
factories are in France. They are
making millions out of their free trade
privileges.
The Canital insists that this same
thing would happen in other indus
tires if put to the test The only dil-
ference would be that If free trade
were adopted in relation to all manu-
featured products, the American mar
ket would not be so good as it is now,
for the people would not have the
means with which to buy.