Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1920-12-09
turned to Bolsheviks or Socialists
Cheap Imported Wheat

Cheap Imported Wheat
! The cattle market has sunk TO
ruinous level. they say, because on
export trade is gone. Nonsense,
is because we are paying to Canad
millions for foreign wheat, to Austria
lin millions for wool and mutton. ant
to Argentine millions for corn ant
beef. This produces stringency oil
credits by reducing our good reserve
forcing thousands Of breeding cattle
cows. heifers and calves to market
that should be kept to restock our de.
pleted ranges.
say, pay for wheat raised by our
own American farmers, at higher
price, Of course. Why not? II mill
lions Of Canadian wheat was shut out
Of our market, 1t would be practical
~ the same price to the consumer, as
change of dollar that would mean
so much to the producers Of wheat
just now would not affect the con-
sum at all, for the present low prices
Of cattle and wheat are not reflected
In the prices that the consumers are
paying for the bread and meat that
they buy. The millions Of money
that has gone from us would have
been In our own bank wants and we
would have had plenty OF money
which could have been used to finance
the cattle Industry and keep thou
sands Of cattle ut home where they
should have been. instead OF being
forced upon the markets at an enor- !
nous sacrifice. People want them
bad enough, but there Is no credit,
which IL and always was the one es-
scntial thing to the life of the cattle
business.
Giye us American markets for the
American producers, made so by the
Enactment OF good tariff laws, and
'ur troubles will soon vanish. Pro-
ect the American laborer also,
rom the undesirable immigration
hat know nothing and want less.
)ur standard Of living is high, and
he only way 1t can be maintained IL
o protect 1t from the competition of
hose that tive cheap ond obscure.
Pauper Labor
I was told just last week by
riend of mine that had just recently
,turncd from South America that he
IVY family Of six that had been 1
AIRED under tree. They were en-
aged In the cattle producing bust
ass. The boss thought he would be
nod to them and gave them some
oney to get tent, but In a few
lys, upon his return, which furnish
the occasion Of my friends visit,
found that they had used the
oney to buy themselves Victor
king machine, and were all busily =
gagged, while seated in the family
'cle under the big tree, listening to
e thing play "Be 1t Ever SO Humble 4
lcrc's no Place Like Home" They +
mt get anything for what they do, /
ely have no education, they have
thing, and they want nothing less Z
e cost Of producing 1t in country =
lere 1t costs nothing. I
And then they are asking us to 7
oduce In competition with such as I
Is.
Fellow countrymen. we must have I
presentation In washington at the 7
xt session of congress to look out Z
: us, for we have big organized
cker interests in South America I
It like to buy that meat there at, I
relieve L. r. Swift told us, 20 per 4
1t less than what II cost here. And *
N let them sell 1t on our market :
New York City in competition I
h our product. Fine business for 4
South American packers, Mr..
lift, Armour and all the rest. You 4
wv them, they are all South Amer I