The Lamar register., 1921-01-05


momentous national Importance, | am
seeking light. May ask that you
lid in its solution? What would you
suggest?
Time has proven that free raw ma
tcrinl is not a fundamental OF true
democracy. 1t has been fatal policy
and constitutes one of our grnyest
mistakes. II has almost hankrupted
some of our southern producers, who
by law have been forced to purchase
everything they have to buy III u pro-
tected market and then sell all of their
raised products in a free one, where
the whole world, dissimilar as it is,
competes on an equal footing. The il
lusive, seductive doctrine of permit.
ing raw materials from every foreign
country of the world to enter the Unit
ed States absolutely free of duty has
taken away from our home producers
their home market and is largely re-
sponsible for our southern planters
now being forced to sell their cotton,
which means their living for whole
year, for less than they paid out to
have it picked and ginned; for the
Chamber of Commerce in Ranger, Tex
as, now offering some of the splendid
farms of Eastland County rent free TO
any farmers who will agree to culti
vate them next year; for our ware
houses now bulging out with both the
spring and fall clips of domestic wool
which cannot now be sold for its cost
of production; for the crippling of our
great peanut industry; for stagnating
our important stock-raising and dairy
interests, and for swiftly depopulating
our farms and ranches. Our farmers
and stockmen of the United States,
sturdy producers who yearly feed and
elothe our los, ,OO0. 900 people, are now
with their backs to the wall facing a
most serious crisis.
Different Conditions Exist
In Mexico, South America, Austral-
ia, Europe, Asia and Africa there ex-
lists an entirely different state of con-
ditions, a different standard of living,
different standard of working hours,
a different standard of wages. differ
cnt standard of necessities, morals, in
telligence, hopes, ambitions and aspira-
tions. Mexico poems are content to
work for miserable existence.
Chinese and Japanese laborers are per-
fectly satisfied to work from ten to
fourteen hours each day for less than
20 cents pay, to live on rice, TO go al
most naked, and to let the future take
care of itself. Must our intelligent
ambitious, deserving men and women
on the farms and ranches of the Unit
ed States be longer placed ON the same
level by being forced to compete di-
rcetly with the poems and slaves OF
the universe? | am one loyal Demo
erat who is not in favor of it.
have had Hon. Thomas w. Page,
chairman of the United States Tariff
Commission, to assemble for me the
following authentic statistics concern
ing recent importations. During the
last fiscal year ending June 80, 1920
ported from foreign countries into the
United States absolutely free of any
duty. to-wit:
Cotton, 45,3l4,i26 pounds.
Corn, 1o,229 ,249 bushels.
Wheat, 4,744,7l2 bushels.
Wheat flour, 157 1896 barrels.
Wool, 427 ,57S.038 pounds.
Beef and veal, 42,436,333 pounds.
Mutton and lamb, 16.35s,2 ,2s9 pounds
Cattle, 575,32S head.
Sheep, I99, $40 head.
Cow hides, 439 ,461 ,092 hides.
Calf hides, 68,359 ,S25 hides.
Cabretta hides, 10l ,S48 hides.
Buffalo hides, 14,6s2,279 hides.
Other hides, 1884 ,2l3 hides.
Oil Cake, l45,O26.652 pounds.
Chinese nut oil, lO,6l3,63S gallons.
Coeoanut oil 269, ,226, ,966 pounds.
Cottonseed oil, 24,l64 ,S2l pounds.
Palm oil, 5O,l63,3s7 pounds.
Palm kernel oil, 53,5Os pounds.
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