The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-14

sundry civil appropriation bill alone.
The tariff benefit meted out to the
farmers are included in a bill report
ed by Representative Forney. chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Eleans. which for ten months places
upon foreign staples that might
bring competition the following DID,
ties:
List of Farm Benefits.
Wheat, 80 cents per bushel
Wheat flour, 20 cents ad valorem.
Corn, Is cents per bushel.
Beans, 2 cents per pound.
Peanuts, 8 cents per pound.
Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel.
Onions, 40 cents per bushel.
Rice, 2 cents per pound.
Lemons, IA cents per pound.
Cottonseed, cocoanut and soya oils,
20 cents per gallon.
Cattle, 80 per cent ad valorem.
Sheep, SO per head.
Fresh mutton and lamb 21S cents
per pound.
Unwashed wool Is cents per pound.
Washed wool, 80 cents per pound.
Sheep Growers Stung.
"Sheep growing" said Fordney,
sis one of the most important in
dustries we have. Before the war
our production of wool was 100000
900 pounds annually, while our an
nual consumption was 500, 900, 900
pounds. During the war we learned
the lesson that many of the things
used in this country should be entire
ly produced here, wool among them.
Ninety per cent of all the sheep on
the western ranges are mortgaged for
SO per head-more money than the
sheep will sell on the market for.
Ninety per cent Of the cattle on the
western ranges are mortgaged for
$45 per heal-more money than they
will sell for. A statement was made
of a shipment to the Chicago stock
yards where, after paying the freight,
discount, allowances and commission,
the farmer received 33 cents net out
of the price of s2.10 delivered. A
day or two ago / ordered lamb chops
at a restaurant. / received two, con-
taining two mouthfuls in each, and
paid 65 cents for them-twice as
much as was received by the farmer
for the entire sheep"
Protection Is For All.
Democrats in the House set up the
old contention that protection means
high prices. They were answered by
the Republican statement that the
lack of protection means idle indus
tries, unemployment and lack of mon
ey to pay for either labor or goods.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois,
ranking Democrat on the Ways and
Means Committee, recalled the con-
troversy over the passage Of the
Payne-Aldrich law. He did not re-
fer to the promises of price reduction
which brought on Republican defeat,
or that prices are now three times
what they were when he and his fell
low Democrats in the House promised
to bring them down.
1t was also pointed out by the
Democrats that our allies in the war
would be unable to pay the 100000
900, 900 they owe us unless we per-
mitted them to find a ready market
for their goods here. To this Mick"
Longworth of Ohio, retorted that he
would sacrifice every cent of that
sum rather than sacrifice our indus
trial independence. The Republican
majority took the view that it was
much better that the farmers of the
nation be protected in their prosperi-
ty rather than that Europe be look
ed after first.
The tariff measure, now bitterly
fought in the Senate by the Demo-
Gratis there. passed the House by an
overwhelming majority and is in line
with the Republican effort to assist
the farmers in marketing their pro
ducts abroad by revival of the War
Finance Board. Representative James
r. Mann, of Chicago, sums it up this
way:
1--WE have the goods. The people
of Europe have the want They de-
sire our goods, but they can purchase
them only by payment in cash, by
credit. or by exchange. They cannot