Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-02-16
TARIFF REDUCES
ARM MARKETS
With Factories Closed Consumers
Cannot Purchase.
CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER
Cannot Export Produce Unless Other
Countries Can Sell Us.
BY Il. E. MILES,


section Of the United States, not far
from the Canadian border, there is a
glove factory. This concern has been
for years selling large part Of its !
product annually in Canada. Con
gress in the Emergency Tariff Act i
placed on goods imported from Canada |
q tariff so high that 1t made it unprofit-
able for the Canadians longer to sell |
their goods in the American market.
The small town glove factory, among
many Others lost 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 is important because Of it's
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
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.
The smaller farmers who had
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 a greatly reduced price, but every
ching 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
a situation of this kind, but one Of the
most important factors Is the tariff. /
have shown in 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 chemical plant in the
state Of New Jersey which makes fer
tilizer product for the Cuban market.
Cubas sugar industry has been prac-
tically ruined by 60 per cent increase
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
thousand dozen of eggs 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 Is even
more direct loss Of market to the
farmer
A glance at the trade reports shows
chat Cuba is one Of the American
farmers most important customers. In
1920 Cuba purchased Of US more than
so per cent Of all our exports OF nogs'
lard compounds, canned sausage, rice,
potatoes. beans and onions. She rank
ed second among the nations In the
purchase Of our cattle, horses, muies,
picked pork, sausage other than can
ned poultry. cheese, sweetened con-
densed milk. cocoa and prepared choco-
late and corn. She ranked third m the
purchase Of hams and shoulders, mis-
cellaneous canned meat products, hay
ard Hour. Cuba bought from u during
1919 and 1920 over SS5,OOO,0OO worth
Of truck gardening and farm products,
over S6,6O0,0O0 worth of live stock,
over s15.O00.OOO worth of dairy prod
nets over 10000, 900 worth Of meat
products. over $6300O,OO0 worth OF
| cotton cloth and over $50. 900 900 worth
OF manufactures Of cotton.
Farmer Needs Cuban Market
| II is pretty evident, then, that the
| American farmer needs his Cuban mar
ket Ii is further quite clear that II
this enormous quantity Of surplus agri-
cultural goods were dumped on the
/ home market his prices would slump
/ still more.
Now where does Cuba get the money
with which to purchase our goods
The answer is sugar Cuba produces
100000 TONS Of sugar annually. Tnis
enormous crop Is the mainsfay 81 W
ban prosperity. # It fails her she must
% bankrupt About one-half OF her
output Of sugar she sells IN the United
Estates. is.
II al increased tariff makes It I'M
possible for Cuba to sell her sugar u
this, conntry her power to buy goods
/ here is going to- be cut 81: (.
M sold cuba $515, 900 900 worth Ct
goods ii 1920. and 9 large part q .
these sales were manufactured prod
1 ucts. u ].
As il the ease u the little town that
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