Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1912-09-05
WASHINGTON LETTER
BY Clyde H. Tavenner.

Washington, Aug. Ex-Governor
Wilson has indicated in his speeches
he has made thus far in the campaign
that he attaches great deal OF in
portance to the question OF the tafih
as it affects the farmers The Demo
cratic canidate puts this whole cues
ton into a nut shell when be said
1.-THE farmer does not derive any
benefit from the tariff when he goes
to market to sell his products, but
on everything the farmer buys there
is an artifcially high price, due to
the sariff tax, "
High protectionists IN Congress 3
have for years deceived the farmers
into believing that because o Ia III
was kept on wheat and corn, the
farmer was necessarily benefited
thereby. That this is false logic is
apparent to any studentof American
import and export statistics. This
country produces moro whta' and
corn than the American people con
sumo, which obviously makes II i'm
possible for any foreign country 70
sell wheat or corn here Europe,
which Is the greatest marketior sur
plus American grain, uses ali tbs
grain produced there for home con-
sumption, and 10 addition, the Euro
plan countries have TO send over
here for more. II there were 20
tariff at all on grain. therefore, toe
American farmer would not be men
aced by the possibility Of foreign
competition, for the reason that for
eigners have o grain 10 sell
But the situation is vastly d fer
emit with the farmer When re 60 es
TO buy the tools. machirerv, clothing
and other necessities of te ue
mus every arUeIe mat 90 uses I'D
producing his crops taxed high ar
and higher, until as Governor VIII
son says, IL is getting to be next to
impossible for the American farmer
to make o legitimate profit TIE
farmers implements, their smaller
tools, wagons, household articles,
clio hing lumber ard harvosti r ua
chinery has steadily risen y yr,c S.
That this rise in prices aas ON
due to artificial causes is pa ven b
the fact that the Identical articles
used by the American flrmer are
sold abroad for from twenty Gya 10
forty per cent less. 3. D. IT, MS ed
In his report to ire idant ao0sev IL
on the Harvester trust reported hal
the same harvesting ,nachiacs that
were made by tie trust in Chicago.
and sold to the Amer can farmer fpr
1925 are sold IN Russia for $50 and
800 Nothing but the tariff enab cs
the trust to thus rob no Am ricaa
farmer, because, II II were not for
the tariff, the dagger OF competition
from Canada would force the Ameri-
can trust 10 sell It's machinery FOR
one price to all.
Governor Wilson has saown a
deep grasp Of the tariff question as
it effects the farmer. and tits certain
that before the campaign is much
older he will nave some Illuminating
things to say 10 the farmers on this
vital subject
SUGAR PLUMB
The ownership of one half inter.
est in the Western Sugar r fiaing
Company netted the Havemeyer 10.
terests $l2, $50, 000 in q years. la
one year, 1898, This co cera paid the
HavemeyerS six hundred thousand
dollars. When the company was
organic d the Havemeyers put in a
million dollars capital and the Spr, elk
les people another million Two
years later this money was returned
to the investors, so that all the
profit they subsequently took cut
was velvet" Thus tariff on sugar
is shown to be good thing for The
millionaire owners ofthe sugar trust
POPULAR GOVERNMENT
In his speech Of acceptance Presi-
dent Taft said the great issue before
the people was tberetention of pop.
ular constitutional representative
government. !" Itnever occurred to
Mr.. Taft that the greatest perion of
unrest in this country since war
days has been brought about bg tho
millionaire trust owners who, while
shouting about popular government
b i've made farce Of common egfry
day justice. Tho Payne Aldrich
tariff tax which Mr.. Taft signed, aid
more than any other ore thing to
make the people dissatisfied with
the particular brand Of popular |
constitutional representative gov