Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-30
SYKES SEES MENACE.
sAYs DEMOCRATIC TARIFF BILL
Is DANGEROUS TO IOWA
FARM INTERESTS.
TAKING AWAY BENEFITS
JUST As REWARDS COME
sykes Declares Cattle Can Not be
Produced at Profit on 500 and $500
Land IN Composition With Cheap
Canadian Land and Labor Much
4 Concerned About Future Of Industry.

Des Moines. April 30.-The new tariff
law as 1t is being framed by the DEM
ocrats Is a menace to the agricultural
interests OF the country, according to
A. Sykes, president of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association. Mr.. Sykes
pointed, out that just as consumption
OF meat in America has caught up with
production and the farmers are in
fair way to make little profit on their
!. stock the reduction Of the tariff
Rhreatens to place them in competition
with lands where production is cheap
4er than here. The farmers of the coun-
try are not being considered by con-
gress, because they are not organized
to resist tariff legislation, Mr.. Sykes
believes.
Committee TO Washington.
The committee, consisting of Mr..
sykes. Charles Goodenow, treasurer,
and ]. F. Eise!e, member Of the execu-
tive committee az the Corn Belt Meat
Producers Association, left for WASH
ington to make a vigorous protest TO
consress against the provisions OF the
tarifr bill affecting dressed meats. live
stock and agricultural products.
iowa is essentially an agricultural
state" Mr.. Sykes said, and we 1eel
that the farmers and meat producers
are not getting square deal IN the
Bill as 1t is framed.
"The facts are that until very re-
Gently the tariff has been farce. SO
Tar as 1t benefed the farmers anu
81. )ck men. Ut was merely paper tar
anI This was due to the fact that we
~ ire producing q large surplus OF al
irbst everything and had to export
I,8ach of our livestock, dressed meats
End agricultural products. ana our
,larkets at home were governed py the
kport market. And now, just as con
hmption has about caught up Win
PRODUCTION, 80 that we nave ho1ne
! market for almost everything tnat we
1roduce, and the farmer and STOCK l'aLi
AVE q fair profit in their business
Songress proposes to take down Tue
bars and place US in direct competitio"
with tho countries where land' laoor
Ind food stuffs are cheap, and Wnere
The cost Of producing meat food AMI
Amals il indeed very small compared
with what It IL here In the corn DeH'
EFT goes without saying that we
|farmers can not produce livestock on
|land worth from 500 to $500 per acra
and compete in our home markets Win
cattle and meats produced In Canada,
Mexico and, the South American coun-
tries. So the Corn Belt Neat Produc-
grs, Association is sending commit
tee to Washington to speak Tor the
farmers and stockmen Of the corn belt
and to secure. If possible. amendments
Is the bill that will tend to foster ana
encourage livestock production IN this
country.
Concerned About Industry.
"The fact L. L am very much con-
cerned about the future Of the direct
effect such tariff will have on the IN
tIustry itself, but on account OF It's
indirect effect upon the future conser-
walton Of our soils. 1t is an established
fact that livestock farming and sou
conservation go hand in hand, and l
believe that the tariff should be
framed 90 as to encourage rather than
discourage livestock farming in the
corn belt. so that our soils may be pre-
served in the best possible way to pro-
duce food stuffs for future genera
lions. II this is not done, the time will
be short until we will be importing
large quantities Of the necessaries OF
life to feed our home people"