The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-08-05

hedged in between devices and su5ter-
fuges and pitfalls and jokers and
traps is now and then an article on
the free list. Some chemicals, and
here is one of them: Sulphide of ar
senic; also valerianic acid. The con-
sumer Is taxed for everything he
wears, from the hat on his head to
the shoes on his feet, but asafoetida,
coculus indicus, annatto, cudbear,
| gambler, osmium, and kieserite can
leap over the tariff wall, higher than
the wall that grim old Romulus built
around Rome, and kieserite ct AL, do
| not have to pay the privilege of the
/ leap. The poor old American con-
consumer must be taxed for his col
lar and his coat, his shirt and his
socks. and there comes to him gallop-
| ing through the wide breach Mr..
Fordney made through the tariff wall
such necessities as civet, musk, arrow
root, bones (crude, steamed or
ground). Many a good woman will
complain because of the duty on baby
clothes and a shroud for her dead
husband, but Mr.. Fordney provides
that she shall have coir yarn, dividivi,
and fish skins (both raw or salted)
without any duty. HandSerchiefs are
taxed but lava is free. Neckties are
on the dutible list, but leeches crawl
in untaxed. Boys, Mr.. Fordney makes
you pay two prices for your suspend
eds, but pulu is not taxed, and so on
al libitum, ad nauseum."
Democratic Senate Leader Would FL
nance Crops.
100000, 900 corporation financed by
the government to dispose of surpl is
agricultural crops, received an impe-
tus when Senator Underwood, Demo-
cratic leader of the Senate, spoke in
its fax or. Senator Underwood mas
tie confidence of the business and ag-
ricultural interests and his words nat
urally carry weight aside from his
party leadership in the highest legis-
lative body. Giving his reasons for
supporting the bill, he said:
Now l wish to say few words
concerning my reasons for supporting
the agricultural bill. 1t may be going
long way to lend Federal money to
a corporation, but we have loaned a
billion dollars or more to the shipping
corporation; we have loaned a large
amount of money to corporations or
ganized to take care of railroad cred
its;s and this is a bill to organize a
S10O,OO0,000 corporation, with a
loaning capacity to issue bonds of
100000, 900, to aid in the financing
of the crops of the country.
"As | said the other day, | am not
so optimistic as to claim that this bill
E, is going to be effective to any great
extent in connection with financing
the crop this fall, for it will take
time to get it into operation, and am
not going to hold out to those | rep
rest that that | am going to do some
thing for them at this time that prob
ably will not be accomplished. If |
, did, it would only create a disappoint-
ment and probably affect the useful
ness of the bill in the future; but I
think the great difficulty with apri-
culture is the establishment of its
markets, coordination of effort in try
ing to reach markets, marketing the
crop, and think this bill will be help
full along that line. l am willing to
give it trial, and should like to see
/ the effort made now.
"A great many wild pieces of leg
lslation, that do not think can be eff
fective, are offered to relieve the pres
ent situation, and | am not willing to
vote for them. The ADMINISTRATION of
this bill will be under government
control. | take it that the govern
ment is not going to waste the mon
ey, and that the President of the
United States will appoint capable
and efficient men that at least will
take care of the governments money
and not have it wasted; so | do not
think we are endangering the govern
ment finances to any extent. The bill
may be helpful, and an effort to in
Ject another bill in its way right now
i care not how important the other
bill is--may mean the ultimate defeat
of this bill
Il shall, therefore. vote for the con-
sideration of the bill proposed by the
Senator from Nebraska and hope that
1t may be kept before the Senate un-
til it is finally disposed of. and | do
not think that will take many days. 4"
The Heart Of the Agricultural Prob
/ lem.
Concerning the present agricultural
situation and the need of relief of the
i farmer, Senator Simmons fDem.. ".
C.), IN recent speech went to the
very heart of the subject-marketing
tne surplus crops-in support of the
Norris bill, when he said:
How is the farmer to get-wha,
reason has he to expect that he is go-
ing TO get any more for his wheat
and his cotton and his tobacco and
his wool this year than he received
last year, unless we provide some way
by which the accumulated surplus of
those products map be sold in the on
" market that is open to him-the
foreign market? Garry the present
agricultural surplus to the time of the
marketing of the present crop. and is
there man with common sense in
this body who does not know that the
next crop will bring no ,nore than
those products have commanded in the
markets of the world during the past
II months There can be no relief
from the present low and distressing
and ruinous prices of agricultural
products until the accumulated sur