Connecticut western news., 1922-02-16
Article No. TARIFF REDUCES
 FARM-MARKETS With Factories Closed Consumers
 Cannot Purchase. CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER Cannot Export Produce Unless Other Countries Can Sell Us.
CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER
By H. E. MILES.

ioih Uhe Chnaulan 'DOfuer, there IS a ! glove factory. This concern has been for years selling a large part of its 1 product annually in Canada Con- gress in the Emergency Tarifr Act placed on goods imported from Canada tariff so high that 1t made 1t unproht- able for the Canadians longer to sell 1 their goods in the American market. | The small town glove factory, among many others, lost it's Canadian mar ket and had to shut down. H.. l- 1t is an economic law that a nation buys where 1t sells, It must do this in order to have money to pay it's bills in the country where the bills are contracted. .... Canada being unable to sell her goods in this country wns forced to sell her surplus elsewhere. Naturally, then, she supplied her needs in other markets. But this particular glove | factory is important because of It's effect on the prosperity of the nearby farmers s. o.. ..
 The plight of this factory is an Nex- ample of how the prosperity of every interest in thls country is dependent upon the prosperity of practically ev- cry other interest. This glove factory Is the mainstay of the town. Prac- tically all the wage earners work there. When their means of livelihood was cut off their ability to purchase was gone. s....
 The smaller farmers who had a ready market at their very doors for their butter and eggs and other farm products found 1t necessary to seek other 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 at greatly reduced price, but every. thing that they attempted to buy they, found was reduced only slightly fn 1 price or not reduced at all.
 The Farmer WhIpsawed
 Many complicated factors enter into a situation of this kind, but one of the most important factors Is the tariff I have shown Tn q 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 is a chemical plant In the state of New Jersey which makes fer. l tilizer product for the Cuban market. Cuba's sugar industry has been prac- tically ruined by co per cent increase 1 in the tariff on raw sugar. Cuba is \ 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 l a thousand dozen of eggs week and iI 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 Is even a more direct loss of market 10 the farmer.
 A glance at the trade reports shows that Cuba Is one of the American farmers most important customers. In 1920 Cuba purchased of us 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, piIkled pork, sausage other than can ned, poultry, cheese, sweetened con densed milk, cocoa and prepared choco- late and corn. She ranked third In the purchase of hams and shoulders, mis- eellaneous canned meat products, hay and flour. Cuba bought from ul during 1919 and 1920 over $S5.000,000 worth of truck gardening and farm products, over $6,6O0.0O0 worth of live stock. over $15,O00, ,000 worth of dairy prod ucts. over $60000, 900 worth of meat products, over $63,000,000 worth of cotton cloth and over $50 o000,000 worth of manufactures of cotton.
 Farmer Needs Cuban Market
 It is pretty evident, then, that the American farmer needs his Cuban mar ket. It Is further quite clear that if this enormous quantity of surplus aRrl1 cultural goods were dumped on thdA home market his prices would slump still more.
 Now. where does Cuba get the money with which to purchase our goods Tue answer Is sugar" Cuba produces 100000 tons of sugar annually. This enormous crop is the malnstay Of Cu ban prosperity. If 1t falls her, she must go bankrupt About one-half of hei output of sugar she sells in the United States.
 If an increased tariff makes 1t i'm possible for Cuba to sell her sugar In thiss country her power to buy goodI here Is going to be cut off.
 We sold Cuba S515,000,000 worth O goods in 1920, and a large part O these sales were manufactured prod ucts.
 AS in the case of the little town tha was dependent upon the glove factcr for its existence and could not buy itj supplies from the surrounding farmer when the factory shut down, so In gen eral, if American manufacturers ar serinnslu Ininred hX losing such an LII