Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-20
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
EXPOSE UNSOUNDNE.SS
AGRICUL TURAL TARIFF
Tariff Laws And Rsaral Credij
Acts Do Not Restore Values
Same AS 1919
PROSPERITY IS DISPLACED
Taxed Everything Farmer Buys
Affords No Market or Price
For His Products

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-Here
is Republican symposium on the
tariff contributed in the closing days
of the late congress which failed to
receive the publicity it deserves be-
cause of the great volume of press
ing news;
Three Republican senators, all
speaking Of the plight of the Amer
lean wheat-grower for whose behoof
Of the Republican congress imposed
tariff Of 30 cents bushel on his
product, unconsciously exposed the
fallacy and futility of Republican
protection on export OF farm
products.
Listen to Senator Cooling, Repub-
hcan wool senator from Idaho:
The average price of farm prod
ucts is 112 per cent of the 1918
prices. The average price of all 9TH
er commodities in the United States
ls~l69 per cent of the 1913 prices.
With freight rates 149 per cent of
the pre-war prices, and the farm
er's dollar with purchasing power
of only 65 per cent of its pre-war
value, nothing but government aid,
in my judgment, can save the wheat
growers of this country Taking the
value of farm products for the year
1919 as a basis" continued Senator
Go0ding, referring to the last four
years of Democratic control, ''in the
last three years farm products have
suffered a shrinkage of over $16,-
100000, 000-more than enough to
build all the railroads in America
and equip them in better condition
than they are today. The wheat
growers last year lost $750,000,000.'
That is under the highest tariff
ever enacted.
Senator McCumber, of North Da-
kota, co-author Of the Profiteers
tariff law, had this to say:
while the wheat-grower today is
receiving pre-war prices and every
thing that he purchases is much more
expensive s. the only class that is
suffering very seriously from what
the senator from South Dakota (Mr
Sterling) calls deflation, but what
| say is the lack of demand for the
product, is the raiser of small cereals
wheat, oats, barley and rye. These
products are today even below the
pre-war basis"
That is, articles protected" by
the new tariff.
The third speaker was Senator
Warren of Wyoming, who said:
Il wish to say . that cattle
have been lower Tin price, at va
rious times than before the wa,
and are today"
Cattle on foot and fresh beef are
protected" by tariff of $3.50 to
$3.50 a hundred-weight.
The years of agricultural pros
perity to which these senators refer
1913 and 1919, and the interval
between them-was time when the
country was under a Democratic low
tariff law.
Two tariff laws and rural credit
acts to which the leaders of the late
Republican congress are pointing
with pride have done little to restore
farm products. to the value which
they had in 1919, the last full year
of the second Wilson administra-
tion. according to the farm press and
spokesmen for agricultural interests.
Literal poverty has taken the place
Of the prosperity the American farm.
err was enjoying four years ago, they
assert.
The value of all farm products for
the year 1919 was $25,419, 100000.
In 1921 farm products were worth
but $11,250;000,O0O. This decrease
of $4,000, 100000 in the value of
their products was not the only loss
suffered by the farmers in that pc
riod. They have seen their lands
depreciate because of their unprofit
ableness and by reason of the debt
that was spread over them.
AS a cure" for this situation the
Republican administration in Wash
ington has enacted tariff law that
nuts a tax on everything the farm
ers must buy while affording Meth,
er certain market nor a remunera-
tive nrice for what he has to sell:
Foreign customers willing and
able to purchase the surplus of
American farms are worth in2om-
parably more to the American farm
er than all the bills a Republican
congress- can enact, the farmers
spokesmen hold. Foreign custom
ers are unable to buy here because
thew are without the means and the
Republican policy has been to do
nothing to rehabilitate Europe and
re-establish its credit.
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