The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-16
Farmers of South Want Tariff on
Vegetable Oils and Peanuts.
From Newman Herald and Advertiser.


Do YOU want 10 compete with Japanese and
Chinese labor, which is paid 10 cents to 10
cents per day? That is what you will have to
do if the tariff on cotton oil, SOLO bean OIL,
cocoanut oil, etc, is taken off imports OF these
and other oils and oil-bearing materials COM
ing in competition with cotton oil and peanut
oil of southern production.
There are about 800 pounds OF oil in ton
Of cotton seed, and about 500 pounds OF oil
in ton of white Spanish peanuts. The pro-
lection proposed is cents pound on cotton
oil and cents pound on peanut OIL, Whlcn
would result in the farmer getting about ~
per ton more for his cotton seed and about
S24 per ton or more for his peanuts
If YOU want the farmers to have this pro-
lection write your senators and congressman
asking them to support the tariff proposed on
vegetable oils etc, and also request that they
see that no rebate of duties is allowed on OILS
imported for soap or other medible uses. "A
provision in the proposed tariff IS made Tor
rebate OF duties if oils are used in soap or
for other inedible uses, but this will prevent
the needed protection, and the rebate should
be eliminated. The facts are briefly as follows
A little more than year ago cotton OIL was
selling for cents pound, because OF large
stocks of higher priced oils in the hands OF
the rehners packers and soap-makerS, accu,
mulated during the period before defiatlon had
been completed At that time these interests
were willing for tariff to be put on import
ed oils in order to help them get higher
price for the oils they had on hand. They, with
others, advocated duty on oils in the emer-
gency tariff thinking it would only be in eff
feet for sx-months' period. Later on con-
gress voted to continue the emergency tariff
until the permanent tariff now before the SEN
ate goes into effect. Now these interests, hav-
ing disposed of their high-priced oils, have
changed front and are trying to get oils on the
free list in the permanent tariff, so as to en-
able them to buy imported oils in competition
with domestic oils By propaganda they sue
ceeded in getting a resolution passed by the
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association
calling on congress to put oils on the tree
list and are now making the claim that the
cotton oil people do not want protection. The
association referred to is largely made up OF
the refining interests, and their influence is
dominant in the association meetings. Know
mills did not attend the meeting at which
the resolution was passed
Some of the crude oil mills and the South
ern Tariff Association and the agricultural
bloc" have succeeded in congress-in spite OF
active opposition of the refining interests, and
the lethargy if not active opposition, of
southern senator's and congressmen-in get
ting the senate finance committee to recon-
mend fair protective rates on imported oils;
but with proviSo, at the insistence OF the
soap-makers, that a rebate of tariff duties be
allowed on oils imported and used for other
than edible purposes. This proviso should be
eliminated to insure adequate protection, and
the whole matter is of such vital Importance
to the farmer that all the south should insist
on our senator's and congressman dong ev-
erything in their power to give the southern
farmers this needed protection. Other sec
tons will be protected-why not the south?