Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1922-06-09
TARIFF REDUCES
FARM MARKETS
With Factories Closed Consumers
Cannot Purchase.
CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER
Cannot Export Producs Unless Other
Countries Can Cell Ua

Cannot Export produces Unless othe,
Countries Can Cell Us
By n. Z. MILES.
Chairman Of the Fair TarifF LEAGUE.
In small town in an axricultura
section Of the United States, not Ia,
from the Canadian border, there is 9
glove factory. This concern has beer
Tor years selling large part of IT.
product annually In Canada Con.
>gress in the Emergency Tariff Ae,
placGd on goods imported On CanaSi
tariff 30 high that Il made It up1I nh;
able for the Canadians ioneee b -
their goods In the -American marker
The small town glove faetory. amons
many others, lest its Canadian mar
ket and had to shut down.
1t Is an economic law that nation
buys where It sells 1t must do this
In order to have money to pay its
bills In the country where the bills
are contracted.
Canada being unable to sell her
goods In this country was forced to
sell her surplus elsewhere. Naturally,
then, she supplied her needs In other
markets. But this particular glove
factory IL important because of Its
effect on the prosperity Of the nearby
farmers.
The plight Of this factory is an ex-
ample Of how the prosperity of every
Interest In this country is dependent
upon the prosperity Of practically ev-
cry other interest. This glove factory
b the mainstay Of the town. Prac-
tically all the wage earners work
there. When their means of livelihood
was cut OF their ability to purchase
was gone.
The smaller farmers who had a
ready market at their very doors for
their butter and eggs and other farm
products found It necessary to seek
ether and less satisfactory markets
out Of town. But when they got out
into the world market they found that
something was happening.
Everything they tried to sell was sold
ut greatly reduced price, hut every
thing that they attempted to buy they
found was reduced only slightly in
price or not reduced at all.
The Farmer Whipsawed
Many complicated factors enter into
4 situation Of this kind, but one of the
most important factors is the tariff.
have shown in a previous article that
IN at least two commodities, those of
sugar and wool, the tariff protection
accorded by the increased rates on
these two commodities does not reach
the farmer, but stops with and en-
riches the manufacturer.
There IL a chemical plant In the
state Of New Jersey which makes fer
tflizer product for the Cuban market.
Ouba's sugar industry has been prac-
tlcally ruined by 60 per cent Increase
In the tariff on raw sugar. Cuba Il
unable to buy the product Of this chem
ical factory. One thousand men are
out Of work. The families Of those
one thousand men would use at least
a thousand dozen of eeEs a week and
not less than a thousand pounds Of
butter and certainly not less than
three thousand pounds. Of meat, all
products Of the American farmer.
But In the case Of Cuba there 10 even
a more direct loss Of market to the
farmer.
A glance at the trade reports shows
chat Cuba II ONE Of the American
farmers most important customers. In
1920 Cuba purchased Of ~ more than
50 per cent Of all our exports Of hogs,
lard compounds, canned sausage, rice,
potatoes, beans and onions She rank
ed second among the nations In the
purchase Of our cattle, horses, mules.
picked pork, sausage other than can
ned, poultry, cheese, sweetened con-
densed milk. cocoa and prepared choco- !
late and corn. 6he ranked third In the
purchase Of hams and shoulders. mis-
cellaneous canned meat products, hay
and flour. Cuba bought from us during
1919 and 1870 over So. 900. 900 worth /
Of truck gardening and farm producta
over $4,000, 900 worth Of live stock, \
over $4,000. 900 worth Of dairy prod
ucts, over SEQ, 600, 900 worth of meat
products, over $63.O0O. 600 worth Of
cotton cloth and over $4,000. 600 worth
Of manufactures Of cotton.
Farmsr Needs Cuban Market
II Is pretty evident. then. that the
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