Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-25

receive any direct benefit from TIL
duty for the 400, 100000 bushels o
corn that we raise every year. I d
not believe that we receive any di
rect benefit from the duty On ths
eight or ten million hogs that W,
market every year. l do not believs
that of the $70O,0O0,0 of agricus.
tural products that we pour everJ
year into the channels of trade pro.
lection advances the price of tithe
of them.
want senators to remember thai
l come from state which probably
puts more in value into the channels
of trade every year than any state
in the union in agricultural pro-
ducts We will this year supply the
people of the United States and the
people of the world with a product
that will surpass in value $700,0O0.-
900, and it is, idle for even an en-
thusiast to assert that the price of
these products is directly affected
by the protective tariff.
We are benefited, however, and /
want in passing, to acknowledge
the benefit, for / am just as firm a
believer in the policy of saving our
markets as one who may live in
New England, New York, or Cali
fornia; we are benefited because
protection creates great prosper
GUS multitude of men and women
and children in America who buy
our products, who are able to buy
them, and who are able to pay for
them"
Mr.. President, permit me to offer
another authority to sustain my con-
tention that any article produced III
this country in excess Of the home
demand is not affected in price By
the duty on the article.
On the 10th day Of May, 1909,
the senior senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Nelson), in reply, I think, to
an interrogatory from the junior SEN
ator from Idaho (Mr. Borah), said:
Il do not recall the millions of
bushels produced in the state Ct
Minnesota, but I desire to tell the
senator that the tariff on wheat
which is on the statute books has
not done us a particle of good. 1t
would be like tariff on cotton, be-
cause UP to this time we have been
exporting from 15O,000,000 to ESQ.,
100000 bushels of wheat a year.
The price of our wheat is fixed by
the Liverpool price-the export
price-and no duty up to this time
has helped u.s."
On the second day of August.
1909. the Junior senator from Kan
sas (Mr. Bristow), just before the
roll was called on the Payne-Al-
drich bill, testified as follows:
Schedule G-relating to agri-
cultural products-has been in
creased about 2 per cent. There
should have been reductions in this
schedule. They could have been
made without the slightest injury
to American agriculture. High du
ties are placed on semi-tropica'
fruits, such as lemons and raisins, |
md on pineapples and rice, and n
four biscuits made by the cracker
rust, for the benefit of few indi |
1iduals in limited sections OF the
country: and a high duty is placed
IN corn and wheat to make tie
great mass of farmers believe that
hey are being favored. But it is
IN insult to the intelligence of the
American farmer to place protec-
i've duty on corn when we are pro-
lucing more corn than all the 9TH
II nations combined. We sell our
neat anu NOlI anu lhS
hereof in the markets of the
world, and no duty which Nigh. be
imposed can affect the price which
he farmer receives for them. We
aise far more wheat, corn, cattle
nd hogs than we consume, and the
esult is that the farmer cannot he
protected by a tariff because the
rice of his produce is fixed by the
world market"
1t occurs to me. Mr.. President,
hat it is not necessary for me %
cad any additional authority on the
ubject. These distinguished states
Zen were right two years ago when
hey planted their feet upon the
octrine that the price of agricul-
ural products in this country was
OF fixed by the duty on the pro-
ucts, and that whatever benefit the
gricultural class received from pro-
ection was an indirect benefit. In