The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-12
texan PLEADS FOR
PROTECTIVE TARIFF
PRYOR DECLARES LIVESTOCK
AND FARMING INDUSTRIES
LIFE OF NATION"

Ell Paso, Texas-(By A. Pike 7
Pryor Of San Antonio, Texas, deal
vigorously with tariff and other con
ditions which he declared adversel,
affected the cattle raising and ship
ping industry in an address today a.
the annual convention of the Ameri
can Livestock Association here. He
asserted that the farm and ranch in
dustry is "the very life and vitality
OF America
The farming and livestock interests
are suffering from competition with
raw material from foreign countries
imported duty free, Mr.. Pryor de-
elared. 'sIf they are forced to do
this, then poverty is their heritage
the producers are as much entitled to
= tariff on the so-called raw material
as the manufacturers' he asserted.
why should they be compelled to
sell in a free market and buy i'll a
protected one? 1t is unjust discrimi-
nation.
I'VE can never prosper long under
q system one-half free trade, one half
protection, or one-half subsidized and
one-half taxed"
Mr.. Pryor told of the competition
with cheap labor and declared in jap
an man works for as little as II
cents day. He said recently train
loads of Chinese had passed through
Ell Paso enrOute to Cuba to work on
the sugar plantations on a wage
basis that meant bankruptcy to Amer
lean sugar producers forced to COM
pete with them.
He said Australia and New Zea
land and other western countries can
produce beef at two or three cents
a pound, owing to cheapness Of labor
and land while in this country it cost
several times as much. The same
condition held good as to cotton he
said. The speaker described the
cause of uneasiness in the livestock
industry as two-fold First the with
drawing of credit by many lenders in
a large measure. Second, the unstable |
condition of the country in general
and the fear of importation of meats
into this country free of duty.
In conclusion he said income tax
indicated the country has 10000 mill
lionaires and asked "who ever heard
of an honest to God millionaire far
mer."
He said most millionaires made
their money from manufacturing of
raw materials produced by the far
mers but said that while such COM
munity of interest should produce
'fifty-fifty" profit for both, he was
unable even to guess what per cent
The farmer received as compared to
what the manufacturers obtained for
finished products.
Wants Tariff on Farm Products
Ell Paso, Texas-(By A. P.-TariM
luty on farm products at the earliest
possible date increased credits, the
Early adoption of legislation, pending
n congress for the appointment of
to supervise the livestock ,
dustry, was urged as a necessary !
tep for the early rehabilitation of
he livestock industry by John b.
xendrick, of Sheridan, Wyoming,
PRESIDENT of the American National
livestock Association in addressing
he associations annual convention
which opened here today.
For Secretary of Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace, of Des Moines,
owa, was endorsed for secretary of
grculture by the American National
livestock Association convention to- r
ay after a contest on the floor.
,harges were made that the packers
yere contesting his appointment.
Wallace is publisher of Wallace's
'armers, one of the well known agri-
ultural publications of the middle G
veSt-Ed) !,