The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-09-03
GOV. WILSON
KNOW NEEDS
OF FARMERS
lBY CIYde Il. TaYenner.l

ldut lNuS ldi AA tit campaign liiut
e attaches a great deal Of import
ince to The question Of the tariff as it
Affects farmers. The Democratic can
llate put this Whole question into q
M, sF.syhen he said:
"rhe farmer does II M N.Y.
benefits from the tariff when he goeA
ITO market to sem BIS products, but on
everything Che farmer buys there is
an ariificially high price, due to the
tariff tax"
High protectionists in congress
we for many years deceived the
larmers into believing that because a
tariff was kept Oh wheat and corn, TIE
farmer was necessarily benefited
thereby That this Is false logic IS
apparent to any student Of American
import and export statistics, This
country produces more wheat and corn
than the American people consume,
which obviously makes it impossible
for any foreign country to sell wheat
or corn here Europe, which is the
great market for surplus American
grain, uses all the grain produced there
for home consumption, and in addi-
ton, the European countries have to
send over here for more II there
We're no tariff at all on grain, there
fore, the American farmer would not
be menaced by the possibility Of for
eign competition, for the reason that
foreigners have no grain to sell
But the situation is vastly different
with The farmer when he comes to buy
the tools, machinery, clothing and
other necessities OF life. He finds
every article that he uses in produc-
ing his crops taxed higher and higher,
until, al Gov. Wilson says, 1T is get
ting to be next to impossible fer the
farmer to make a legitimate profit.
The farmers Implements, their small
er tools wagons, household articles,
eiothing,9 Timber and harvesting ma
chinery has steadily risen in prices.
That this rise in prices has been due
to artificial causes is proven by the
fact that the identical articles used by
the American farmer are sold abroad
for from % to 40 per cent less. B. D.
Townsend, in his report to President
Roosevelt on the harvester trust, re-
ported that the same harvesting ma
chimes that were made by the trust in
Chicago and sold to the American
farmer for $l25, are sold in Russia
for $50 and 500, Nothing but the tariff
enables the trust to thus rob the Amer,
lean farmer because, if it were not
for the tariff, the danger Of competi-
tion from Canada would force the
American trust to thus rob the Ameri-
can farmer, because, il it were not for
the tariff, the danger Of competition
from Canada would force the Ameri.
can trust to sell its machines for one
price to all.
Gov Wilson has shown a deep grasp
Of the tariff question as It affects the
farmer, and it is certain that before
the campaign is much older he will
have some Illuminating things to say
to the farmer on this vital subject
Sugar PIums.
The ownership Of one half interest
in the Western Sugar refining com-
pany netted the Havemeyer interests
S12,950.0O0 in 2i years. In one year,
1898, this concern paid Che Hayemey-
ers 100000. When the company was
organized the Havemeyers put in
million dollars capital and the
spreckles people another million. Two
years later this money was returned
TO the investors, so that all the profit
they subsequently took out was vel
vet" Thus the tariff on sugar is
shown to be a good thing for the
millionaire owners Of the sugar trust.
Popular Government.
In his speech OF acceptance Presi-
dent Taft said the great issue before
The people was the retention Of pop
ular constitutional representative gov
ernment 1t never occurred to Taft
that the greatest period Of unrest in
this country since war days has been
brought about by the millionaire trust
owners who, while shouting about pop
uiar government have made farce Of
common, every day justice. The
payne-Aldrieh tariff tax, which Mr..
Taft signed, did more than any other
one thing to make the people dissatis.
fled with the particular brand Of
popular constitutional representative
government that Mr., Taft and his aides
have administered.
Meat Prices Here and Abroad.
On Friday, August "a, prime sirloin
Of beef sold in London for 10 IA cents
per pound, and in New York for SO
cents per mound. Just at present meat