Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-04-29
FARMER THE GOAT"
UNDER FREE TRADE
By Winfield Jones.

American farmer is undoubtedly the
goat under the Wilson adminisira-
/ ton and he Democratic tariff law.
Practically everything the Amer
lean farmer produces. under the
Democratic tariff law, IS produced
in competition with The remainder
of the world.
More than 3.0000o0 Of the wage
carners OF the factories are out OF
work. That means that 100000
families. customers Of our farmers.
( have M income with which to buy
food. Where customers are with
on, means to buy. there is no mark
ct, and what market there IS left IS
divided between American farmers
and the producers Of the rest Of the
world. who are working. not at
American wages, but at European
wages. so that. besides curtailing
the American market, through abol-
ishing the wages OF 100000 or T.
go0OC0 wage earners. foreign COM
petition is brought into what is left
to our own producers.
Representative Rainey. who had
charge OF the agricultural schedule
N the formation Of the Underwood
-arif- law. boasts that VIC have Al
-eady imported into America 4.500.-
eco bushels OF Argentine corn. and
vet he claims that it has not kept
the price of American corn down.
1t has certainly supplied the demand
of the Corn Products Refining Co.
and the National Starch Co. so that
they have been relieved OF the nee
essity of buying American corn To
the extent Of 100000 bushels. while
the granaries and elevators of the
Mississippi valley are becoming food
ed with corn that has not been sold,
because the market has been so de-
pressed. In Illinois alone 10000
bushels Of Canadian oats have come
in competition with American oats.
IN 1915 the United States raised
c77.752000 bushels less OF corn than
we did in 1912, yet the price was
higher in 1912, with q Ligger crop.
than it was in 1913. For the first
time in the history OF the country,
the Mississippi valley Is not ship
ping bushel OF corn or oats to the
New York market The New York
market, the Eastern market in gen
eral, IS supplied from Argentina, not
from the Mississippi Corn in New
York. by virtue Of the Argentina
supply. sells for - cents. Yellow
corn No. ;, in Chicago, sells for %
cents. Even Illinois cannot com
pete in New York with argentina.
In the, three months. October
November and December, 1913. We
had imported three times as many
cattle. L times as many bushels OF
corn. 972 times as much oats, 39'
times as much fresh meat. and 70l
times as many bushels OF potatoes
IS we had imported in any CORES
ponding quarter under 4 protective
tariff.
1t IS impossible for American farm /
ers to compete with foreign produ-
GERS The average wages paid in /
Europe to farmers or farm hands is
only about one-ffth Of the average /
paid in the United States. Our
farmers can easily meet competition |
OF any nation if they are willing to /
get down to that nations scale Of |
wages, but they cannot do it.
Secretary Rcdhcld boasts that in
the last three months of 1912 we
brought into the United States for
eign meat amounting to only S55,-
eco pounds. while in the last three
months OF 1913, under the Free
Trade Tariff. we brought in $500
eco pounds OF fresh meat. Can you
beat that, you farmers?
We raise potatoes in Minnesota.
and So are interested in Secretary
Redfcld's boast that in 1912. under
protection, we imported into the
United States only 41,OOO bushels OF
potatoes, while in the last three
months of 1913 (under the Dem
ocratic tariff, we imported 2,SOO0CJI
bushels OF potatoes in competition
with Minnesota and Wisconsin po-
.atocs.
MI the potatoes we can raise will
DC needed 10 make starch with
which 20 keep a stiff upper lip under
he Wilson rule.
ARIZONA
SWEDES PEGTHFNT Z