The log cabin Democrat., 1922-02-18
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.

NsasA tue CdHddldn border, there is a gto9s factory. This concern has been fog years selling large part of it's product annually in Canada. Con gress in the Emergency Tariff Act Hsseed on goods imported from Canada s tsrtff so high that it made it unprofit- able for the Canadians longer to sell shesr goods in the American market. sfae small town glove factory, among many others, lost it's Canadian mar hat and had to shut down.
 E is an economic law that a nation ls@gs where if sells It must do this aa order to have money to pay it's 1&iis in the country where the bills age contracted
 Canada being unable to sell her goods in this country waf forced to sell her surplus elsewhere Naturally, sAe0, she supplied her needs in other markets But this particular glove TacfOry is important because of it's tTect on the prosperity of the nearby farmers
 The plight of this factory is an ex- au1pie of how the prosperity of every aGterest In this cointry is depe.Gent spou the prosperity of practically ev- ery other interest This glove factory ss ahe mainstay of the town. Prac- Ueally all the wage earners work ghere. When their means of livelihood WAS cut off their ability to purchase wSs gone.
 The smaller farmers who had ready market at their very doors for .nefr butter and eggs and other farm products found it necessary to seek osher and less satisfactory markets cut of town. But when they got out saso the world market they found that something was happening
 Everything they tried to sell was sold gf greatly reduced price. but every sAsng that they attempted to buy they sSGnG was reduced only slightly In s1fce or not reduced al all.
 The Farmer Whpsawed
 Mans complicated factors enter into n situation of this kind. but one of the @osE Important factors k the tariff. "~'N S''"" II lii 'A pitNl iilIlt lildI ae at least two commodities those of sAssSr and wool the tariff protection escerded by the increased rates on ehese two commodities does not reach aas farmer. but stops with and en- Sehes the manufacturer.
 There IS chemical plant in the s&ste of New Jersey which makes fer ss1izer product for the Cuban market. sfcos's sugar industry has been prac- Ac1uy ruined by a 60 per cent increase ss The tariff on raw sugar. Cuba is aaab,e to buy the product of this chem Eesa factory. One thousand men are aux of work. The families of those Sne thousand men would use at least $ thousand dozen of eggs a week and 'nss less than a thousand pounds of n1tter and certainly not less than asfee thousand pounds of meat. all essducts of the American farmer. But in the case of Cuba there is even < more direct loss of market to the farmer.
 s glance at the trade reports shows 0Sas Cuba is one of the American sarmer's most important customers. In sa3l Cuba purchased of us more than ~ per cent of all our exports of hogs. aE6 compounds, canned sausage. rice. psSsatOes, beans and onions She rank est second among the nations in the ssurchase Of our cattle, horses, mules. asckled pork. sausage other than can .seS. poultry. cheese. SWPeteued con feased milk. cocoa and prepared choCo- sste and corn She ranked third in the Surcilase of hams and shoulders, mis- gellaneoas canned meat products, hay sad four Cuba bought from Il, during sQf9 and 1920 over $S50O0, GOO worth sf- guclJ gardening and farm products, assr S6,o0OO00 worth of liye stock. xver s15.ou0OO6 worth of dairy prod .gss{s. over &600ou0O0 worth of meat ssrotlnGts. over $G3 GOO O00 worth of eTrtron cloth and over S800o0. 900 worth tg manufactures of cotton.
 Farmer Needs Cuban Market
 gl Is pretty evident. then that the aNnercan farmer needs his Cuban mar Ss@ It is further quite clear tlat if Gt1ta enormous quantity Ol SuTlluS aGrl- cssSaral goods were dumped on the nome market his prices would slump assn more.
 Now, where does Cuba get the money with which to purchase our goods? 'gSe answer Is sugar Cuba produces ZOO, 900 tons of sugar annually. This >seagmous crop is the maiustay of Gu nan prosperity. If 1t falls her. she must ra bankrupt. About one-half of her output of sugar she sells in the United States.
 M sn increased tariff makes 1t i'm possible for Cuba to sell her sugar in this country her power to buy goods here Is going to be cut off.
 We sold Cuba $5l5,0o000o worth oi goods in 1920, and a large part o1 these sales were manufactured prod ucts.
 AS in the case of the little town that xas dependent upon the glove factory for its existence and could not buy Its
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