Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-10
HARRIS PLEADS FOR
CHEAPER NITRATES
FOR COTTON FIELDS
Senator Would Have Govern
ment Aid Farmers In Buying
Calcium Arsenate AS Well
WANTS REVOLVING FUND
Says Distress Of Wheat Grow
ers Is No Worse Than Condi-
ton Faced By Others

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10.
Warning senators from the north,
east and west that. the so40hel"
farmers must have consideration as
we'll as equal assistance with other
sections in legislation before Con-
gress, Senator w. ]. Harris, of
Georgia, today spoke in the Senate
in support of his amendment to pro-
vide a revolving fund Of $10,0O0,-
600 until June 80, 1926, to sell far.
mers nitrate of soda and calcium
arsenate. The Senate is consider
ing the Norbeck bill to help the
northwestern wheat farmers, and
the Harris amendment is aimed to
offer some assistance to the south
ern farmers in the same legislation.
Il admit the wheat growers Of
the west are in great distress and
l sympathize with them, but they
are in no greater distress an the
cotton growers of the south, "saId
Senator Harris. ''In fact, the couth-
ern farmers trouble started IL
1914 with the war in Europe when
he received as low as five cents
pound for his cotton because it
could not be shipped, and the wheat
grower received high prices for his
grain at the beginning of the war.
Turning to the tariff, Senator
Harris said that when senators from
New England manufacturing states
two years ago urged such high
rates as to make competition i'm
possible an dtaxed everything to
help monopolies, they did not say
anything about the government not
helping their manufacturers. at
was all right then to put a tariff on
everything to make higher the cost
of living, you commended, for the
manufacturer would be helped, but
when the farmers want help, you
cry out against it," charged Sen&-
tor Harris.
CAS- the pending bill is aimed to
help only the northwestern wheat
growers, | want to cali to the at
tention of Senators from the New
England manufacturing states that
they will not be able to get cot
ton for their mills unless the cot
ton farmer can make living by
producing cotton for if it is sold
for a dollar a pound and the boil
weevil destroyed all Of the crop the
farmer would not make a living
Great Britain today is put
ting tax on manufactured
cotton, the revenue being used to
encourage cotton production in her
colonies, and the amount is increas-
ing steadily" remarked Senator
Harris. II want to say to the west
ern senators that unless the south
ern cotton growers can control the
boil weevil and lower the cost of
cotton production, the world will!
look towards China, India, Africa
and other foreign places for the
supply now raised in the South, and
If the southern farmer cannot raise
cotton at profit he is going to
raise his own wheat instead of buy
ing it from the west as he does to-
day."
"The cotton produced in the
South brings prosperity to this
country more than any other crop,
says Senator Harris, cotton gets no
protection from the tariff as there
is no short staple cotton imported.
The cotton shipped out of this
country brings gold to us and helps
in creating the gold reserve, for
there would not be half the present
gold reserve in the United States
without cotton" ,contended Sena-
tor Harris.
"The manufacturer is protected
against competition and assisted in
creating monopolies which force US
to pay higher prices for everything
to wear, and this goes into the peck
ct of the manufacturer, while the
farmer in the sale of his cotton
must compete with the pauper labor
of the world and gets no protec-
tion," said Senator Harris. MY
amendment would help the farmers
securing cheaper nitrate of soda
and calcium arsenate, as both are
absolutely necessary in the produc-
ton of cotton. My amendment will
help the farmers everywhere"
MANY ATTEND FUNERAL