The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-06
NEBRASKA LOOSES
Sl0,00O,00O ON WHEAT
Redurtieu In Tariff Cheated Each
Farmer in the State Out Of
SITS in 1914.

VIDAL VIII De Jne issue Vi inc
next campaign in Nebraska as be-
tween Republicans and Democrats?
"glay. the Tariff, of course"
"Oh. tut. tut, the Tariff is dead
issuse You cannot get anybody to
Iisisz To YOU
We'll Sc about that" said the
Republican
Have you already forgotten that
the Wilson administration, immed-
lately ansr assuming the reins of
s,osa-r.Eeni, called an extra session
Congress for the sole purpose of re-
tiueing or removing import duties on
foreign made goods, grain and meats
brought into the American markets?
NoH We have had two years time in
whscc TO get the effects of the jolt
our Industries and commerce have
sufssss,d in consequence.
701 Democrats took all the Pro-
tecsseSn Oft wheat and animal food
stufs and other of the chief natural
prOIfoCts of Nebraska, opening the
doeu-s 10 millions of pounds of grain
and meats from foreign shores, thus
increasing the supply and thus re-
dueing prices. While depriving Ne
braska farmers of about is cents
buskzg1 on wheat, the Democrats are
very careful to retain the Protective
Tariff oD the products of the South.
The European war broke out July
81. 1S14. so that in this showing
prices prior to that time only will
be considered. The prices of June,
1919, represented the prosperous
times axh good farm prices under a
Protective Tariff and a Republican
adm in5sar alton. Two years later and
just rcior to the outbreak of the
war sn Europe, the market price of
wheat showed the depressing effects
of the Tariff On the later date
wheat at Omaha was IS " cents a
busheI. and on June 4, 1912, it va
SI0SH. At Kansas City June 4,
1914, wheat was 81 u cents bushel,
while on June 4, 1912, it was SLIP
"A dlfeT ence of 2012 cents bushel
Prevailing prices on those dates in
the principal markets the world over
SHOW about the same rate of decline
under the Democratic Tariff-the
average decrease in five markets be-
ing Is cents bushel.
with the bars down, wheat pour
ed into the United States from for
eign countries in enormous quanti-
ties The importations of wheat in
To the United States during the first
nine months of the Underwood Tar !
in were l,971,430 bushels, as COM /
pared with 472,3S5 bushels during |
the last nine months of the Republic !
can Tariff. This is an increase of |
35T per cent over the year before un- !
der Republican Tariff. This could /
have but one effect-namely to re-
duee the price of wheat produced in
the United States.
and here is the way it hit Ne
brsska in 1914, when the state pro-
duced 64.218,OOO bushels of wheat,
Oh which there was free-trade loss
of over S10.OOO,00O. There being
S4,322 Nebraska farmers producing
wheat, the average loss per farm on
lasss years crop on account of the
Free Tariff was approximately $175.
LAS a specific illustration let us
take the wheat production of Gage
which was 2,764,5S3 bushels
whose farmers lost, by reason OF the
Tariff, $414,6S7. This
will indicate the loss sustained by
farmers in every county OF Nebraska
wheat. The profit-killing
effect of the Tariff on corn and live
stock through Democratic Free-Trade
is even more injurious to Nebraska
than the loss on wheat.
''in consideration of this subject
il is we'll to remember that the Re-
publican national platform, as well
as the Progressive national platform,
both declre for adequate Protection
TO the products of the American
farm, whereas the Democratic ma
tionai platform sanctioned Free
Trade"