Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-23
TARIFF REDUCES
FARM MARKETS
With Factories Closed Consumers
Cannot Purchase.
CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER
canHof Export Produce Unisss othee
ce.atriss Can Sell Va
BY n. z. MILES.
Chairman Of tho Fair Tariff Isao

section Of the United States, not far
from the Canadian border, there La q
glove factory. This concern has ben
for years selling large part Of -
product annually in Canada. Cos
gress In the Emergency Tariff Act
placed on goods imported from Canada
tariff 80 high that It made It unproflt-
able for the Canadians longer to sell
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.
1t Is an economic law that a nation
buys where It 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 was forced tn
sell her surplus elsewhere. Naturally.
then, she supplied her needs In other
markets. But this particular glove
factory b important because of its
effect on the prosperity Of the nearby
farmers
The plight Of this factory Is an en-
ample OF how the prosperity Of eveay
interest In this cointry Is deperaeat
upon the prosperity Of practically ey-
cry other interest. This glove factory
Is the mainstay Of the town. Prae-
| tlcally all the wage earners work
there. When their means Of livelihood
was cut off 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
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 theS
found was reduced only slightly IN
price or not reduced at all.
The Farmer Whlpsawed
Many complicated factors enter into
situation Of this kind, but one of the
most important factors is the tariff. I
have shown In previous article that
In at least two commodities, those Of
sugar and wool, the tariff protectiso
accorded by the increased rates 90
these two commodities does not reach
the farmer, but stops with and en-
riches the manufacturer.
There Is a chemical plant In ase
state of New Jersey which makes far-
tilizer product for the Cuban market
Cuba's sugar industry has been prac-
tlcally ruined by a 60 per cent increase
In the tariff on raw sugar. Cuba Is
unable to buy the product of this cheaa-
ical factory. One thousand men are
out Of work. The families Of these
one thousand men would use at la1st
a thousand dozen Of eggs a week and
not less than a thousand pounds of
butter and certainly net less than
three thousand pcslds Of meat, oil
/ products Of the American farmer,
But In the case Of Cuba there is even
a more direct loss Of market to the
farmer.
A glance at the trade reports shGWs
chat Cuba Is one Of the American
farmers most important customers In
| 1920 Cuba purchased of us more than
30 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
np hnpcoc ,,tan
picked pork sausage other than can
ned, poultry, cheese, sweetened cob
densed milk, cocoa and prepared chNep-
late and corn. She ranked third In the
purchase of hams and shoulders, mis-
cellaneous canned meat products, bhS
ard Hour. Cuba bought from ~ ddf5Ha
1919 and 1920 over $S5,OO0,0OO worth
Of truck gardening and farm produrts
over SG600,000 worth of live stock.
over $15,000000 worth Of dairy pssn-
ucts over S60,000,00O worth of neas
products, over S63,OO0,0OO worth Of
cotton cloth and over $30,00O,OoO wurah
Of manufactures Of cotton.
Farmer Needs Cuban Market
II Is pretty evident, then, that the
American farmer needs his Cuban mar
ket. It Is further quite clear thar II
this enormous quantity OF surplus asni
cultural goods we're dumped % ths
home market his prices would siouS
still moro \
Now. where does Cuba get the nenlQ
with which to purchase our sesas'
TIE answer u "sogar.' CshA prod1k
1000 900 tons Of susas annually. ~
enormous erop = the mainstay * ~
ban prosperity. II Il fails her, shep0S(
% bankrupt About oAshak u ~
sSt,ut 4 sn0ax shs sslis n IA ~
States. \ r.
II IN ios5sassd sart4 nAkss y ~
possible fer Cuhs to ss.I her sua4
~ .sp..Ssy ~ ,ISxesa 10 hsy
ksss u 49, ~ ", srt -.
We ss'A Csba pas, 900 900 woSts a
goods IN 1910. and q larss paMyst
] sAsss sAls. sssssas Manufactured -
uees, W4
A n ths eass Of thu iittls tswA -,
We dspsadsnt Upon the glove tAAessy
for IT. existence and cv,ild not bug 10
supDlies from the surrounding farusrt