East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-09-25

manence, no man, woman or child in
the United States can fail to have an
interest in protecting our basis indus
try-that of griculture-wherever
protection is necessary by the proper
use of tariff regulation.
The time has come when we are
ceasing to be q food exporting nation,
and must look well to guaranteeing
that we shall be self-sustaining. A
failure to be self sustaining in agricul-
ture, in our food supply, will mean the
weakness which afflicted and threat
ened one or more of our great allies
in the world war. Failure to be. self
sustaining would be a menace to us in
war, and menace to us in peace. We
have adequate national and interna-
tional reasons for keeping alive our
necessary agricultural industries when
they are threatened by competition
from lands of cheap labor or new and
exploited soil, by a protective duty
upon our imports of food. And, of
course, / use the word agriculture in
it's broader sense, including horticul-
ture.
A Case in Point
citrus and other fruit industries of
California. America must ask her
self if she will allow these industries
to be threatened in their very exist
ence by the invasion of foreign grown
fruits cultivated, in some cases, under
a subsidy given by a foreign govern
ment, by labor which nothing of our
own American standards of living.
My answer is that just as the fruit
growers of California are willing to
put America first, SO must America be
first in upholding their efforts, and
that If to have this or any other
worthy and developing agricultural in
dustry of America, tariff protection
is necessary, then tariff protection
must be given.
1 mark out the example of the Cal
ifornia agricultural industry not only
because you are Californians, but be-
cause you are Americans, and because
the preservation of agriculture is vital,
interest, and above all
the interest of the consumer.
1t may be well that a long list of [
our farm products viii REQUIRE Re-
publican protective tariff policy. /;
There is an increasing menace to our !,
of a number of farm pro-
ducts in the opening of those countries
which can produce under intensive
with labor cheaper than our
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Invading Our Markets
Manchuria, South Africa, The Ar
Canada, Siberia, Australia.
few Zealand, may in the advance
ears, invade our markets and UNDER
i'd our farmers. In the case of Can HI
da, wheat; Argentine, corn; cain
ngar from tropical Islands. and beet III
1gar from Europe; rice from the HI
'rient; beans and peas from Man III
huria; meat from South America, and III
her imports may threaten the life of III
ar own production. 1t will be neces-
Try to give full and adequate tariff
to those industries. lD
But I point out to you this fact Hi
Id I will always bear 1t in my own
ind-the Republican protection of llEl
ecific American agricultural indus Hi
les must not be based upon any I'LL
CUP or class which, either by the inn IIlI
sition or removal of rates of duty, III
inks it will profit. Our protection llI
the tariff of agricultural industry lll
nst be based upon our concern for |ll
e American manufacturer. the Am |lll
can farmer and the American con- III III
mer We are acting to safeguard III III
a balance the interest Of all-that, IIIl
Iced. in applying protective duties III
removing them, we are acting with I'll
/ conscience Of the rights of all at iii
me and abroad-that we are acting III III
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