Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-27
SENDS OUT SPEECH
Delivers Philippe on Tariff ia
Voters Of First District.
COMES AT ANFoPPoRTUNE TIME
vOtors OF First District VIII Bo
Pleased 60 Hear what silent
Statesman Has 60 say
About the Outlook.
CFrom a staff correspondent.)


LINCOLN. Neb.. July 2s.-(speclal.)-
Voters in the First congressional district
have been receiving the last week copies
OF a speech which was supposed TO have
been delivered by the stint congressman
John A. Mcguire, in the house Of reure-
sentatives March II. 1914 Mr.. Mcguire
is a member OF the committee on agrt-
culture and It would not do for Johnny
to Come Marching Home Again after
votes this fall unless he could show that
he pulled off something for the farmers
during his term in congress.
His speech ls a gem In more ways than
one. AS an orRtorical effort II shines
brilliantly even though It never got far
ther than the leave 10 print stage OF
congressional procedure Congressman
Johnny closes his effusion with the fol-
lowing gem, which coming from a demo-
cratic Congressman who voted for the
present tariff bill. which IL bringing into
this count ryin competition with the
farmers OF Johnny's district millions OF
bushels OF corn from foreign countries.
thousands OF cattle and other products
OF the farm and Is cutting the income
from the farm fully 20 per cent, Is worthy
oA u PROMINENT lihNt III ahuhhs NniN
paign speeches this fall when he comes
back TO Nebraska and tries TO explain
Just where the benefits come to the far
mer frem the new democratic tariff bill.
Extract From speech.
Mcguire closes his speech by saying
The food supply OF our farms becomes
our greatest asset not alone in times Of
peace, but Is more powerful than armies
plow and the millions in American homes
would soon clafnor for the bread line.
Let a general drought come, and not
alone the food supply would dihappear,
but the anvil would cease TO ring and
the wheels Of industry would become
silent. Let a famine or a plague. strike
at the herds and flocks on the farms and
the meat supply would soon minimize the
capacity and power of every wage Garner
and every citizen Stop any industry and,
Of course, the effect would be felt. but
strike at the productive power ana stop
the production on the American farm,
and you have not alone pGralyzed every
other industry and occupation, but you
have struck at the vitality. the power,
the happiness OF every citizen ana every
home. Agriculture holds fundamental
and unique place in our social, industrial
and economic welfare because II supplies
the food for the world.
When one takes into confederation the
fact that already Argentina has finished
It's harvest and is preparing 70 ship TO
New York and other eastern markets
900 bushels Of corn over and above
what that country needs for It's own use,
and that as soon as Il arrives in the
United States It will take the place OF
$50, 900 bushels OF Nebraska. Iowa, II.
linois. Kansas and other corn and cut
the market just as much. the wisdom oi
IN speech can be seen. although not from
the same point that the silent statesman
Intended II to cover.
The Market Hit.
II makes little difference whether th'
market iR deprived OF Nebraska-Iowa
Kansas corn by drouth. famipe or I
plague. a. the silent statesman puts II
or whether the market is hit by an i'm
portatlon OF foreign corn from Argentina
made possible by a democratic tariff bill
the effect on the "Anvil and the wheel
of industry would be the same and th
farmers OF the country are aware OF tina
fact without reading the leave to print
speech OF the silent congressman from tn
First Nebraska district AZ far as tn
effect on the agricultural industry of tn
country ia concerned. there Is little diff
ference between a drouth, famine. plRgu
or democratic tariff bill.