Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-04-28

in the past has any Congress, IN en-
acting a tariff bill, given 10 the Amer
lean farmer as much protection as is
carried on farm and orchard and range
products in the bill recently rep rted
by the Senate Finance Committee.
In this bill, for the first time in his
tory, the degree Of protection accord
ed to agriculture is on a par with the
protection accorded the manufacturer
And this is due olely to the activity
of the so-called farm tariff bloc" Of
which Senat Gooding of Idaho, is
the chairman.
When the Fordney bill passed the
house it followed generally the lines
of past protective tariff bills, giving
full measure of protection to the man
ufacturer. but not giving ample pro-
lection to the farmer. Senator Good
ing set to work Immediately L organ
ize the republican Senators from the
agricultural states for the specific pur-
pose Of going before the Finance Com
nittee and demanding the anne treat I
nent for the farmer as had been Civ /
en- the manufacturer.
Senator Gooding saw tire unavail- (
ability of the original farm bloc" in /
the tariff fight. and set aboEt building 4
up an entirely new organizatibn which (
he terms the farm tariff group" con- (
sisting of 25 republican Senators, al I
interested in common cause.
The idea Of this organization was /
ourelv his own, and because OF his /
Initiative. and because of his profound {
interest in the tariff question Senator
Go ding was made chairman Of this
group and has been it's active leader
from the first.
Time and again the farm group
met with representatives Of the yarl-
Gus national farm organizations; they
conducted extensive correspondence
with their farmer constituents. and
actually worked out a schedule of tar
if dutied on all farm pr'ducts when
they believed would amply protect the
American farmer against foreign com.
petition. This schedule Of duties was
tabulated and then the farm group
with Senator Gooding as spokesman,
appeared before the Finance Commit
tee. and submitted the rates which
they wanted written into the perma-
nent tariff bill
Not once, but d zen times did Sen
ator Cooding and his followers appear l
before the committee. and the result
Of their efforts is reflected in the Dill I
now before the Senate. o
The farm group" did not confine It q
self to duties IN the products Of few o
states. but included in their program 4
every farm product, regard is
less of the section where it may be r
produced, for the s'group" is not +
ocal organization, but includes Sena- S
ors from every part of the country s,
ave the nth, and was barred there Il
because there are no protectionists je
rom the South in the Senate. But, s
Ven so, where the farm industry of
he south, through it's organizations h;
t home, established the necessity for dt
on pr ducts of the Southern W
arms, the Senate group sought and II
btained those increases. just as it did bl
0r the products of the West, the North 80
nd the East.
AS an illustrat ton of what the group TO
the duty on wheat. fixed ad
t % cents a bushel in the F. rdney ce
i'll, was, as the the instance of the tn
group, raised to 80 cents by the SEN ce
. Committee. In the Underwood
i'll, wheat was free, the group" also th'
Id the rate on barley raised from Is ga
20 cents; on oats. from 10 to Is in
nts: and on rye from 10 to 15 cents WI
Cattle and sheep come in free under F'o
e Urderw cd law. The Fordney bin res
red q duty of one cent a pound on pes
tile under years. and 19t cents on Co
tile years or over; the Senate Com re-
ttee fixed the rate AT 1i5 cents Ing
lean cattle. and cents on cattle act
ighing over 1850 pounds The Ford he
v rate on sheep and goats was l the
1t a pound: the Senate rate is fixed the