Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-28

nual productiin, due to the factors
/ Of excessive rain or drought excess
sixa heat or cold, likewise the abb
sence or presence of destructive in
| sect life. The copper producer can
and always has been able to confine
his production within definite and
rigid limits.
The wheat produced domestically
is grown by hundreds of thousands
of farmers, unorganized and devoid
Of any semblance of collective CO.
operative effort towards stabiliza-
tion of output. on the other hand,
T less than dozen domestic corpora
tions control 95 per cent of our do
mestic copper production, hence, sta
bilization of their output is a com
! paratively simple matter
Wheat is perishable product,
hence, carrying charges are high;
while copper metal is indestructible
and the carrying charges are nomi-
nal.
| Past domestic industrial history
does not afford an example where
the production of an agricultural
product like wheat has ever been
effectively stabilized; while past in
dustrial history affords excellent ex-
amples where other metal products
like steel, lead, zinc, and aluminium,
, have been rigidly stabilized, both as
to production, likewise prices.
Yet in view of the foregoing fun
damental differences between wheat
and the copper industries, your in
diligence is nevertheless requested
| tee
mitted as refutaton that the plight
of the wheat grower approXimates
that of the copper miner.
The price of copper is lower to-
day than it's past 30year average
price.
The price of wheat today is higher
than it's past 30-year average price.
Copper is on the free list and
so years, namely, 43 per cent above
Senator Cameron's bill asking for a
six-cent duty denotes 36 per cent
! protection based on the past 80 years
average price of 16 710 cents per
pound for domestic produced copper
Wheat is protected to the extent
of about 40 per cent of it's past 80
years average price, and the Hau-
/ gen bill, sponsored and supported
by the domestic wheat growers, aims
to make the tariff 100 per cent eff
fective. The wheat farmer is GER
! tainly not asking for free trade. even
| though he has an exportable surplus.
He is vociferously demanding 100 per
cent tariff protection, even to the
! extent of having congress enter the
realm of near subsidies and 1egislat-
ing experimentation, his plea being
that he cannot with any degree of
certainty control wheat production
/ within reasonable or foreseeh limits;
hence, special congressional relief
should be accorded~the wheat grower
to prevent any exportable surplus
fixing the world price as a basis for
domestic sales of his product.
Copper is selling at 1877 cents per
| pound The average price the last
80 years being 1877 cents hence, cop
per is 18 per cent below this average.
Wheat is selling at $3.50 per bushel
The average price the past 80 years
1 being about $1.O5 per bushel; hence,
wheat is selling 43 per cent above
this average.
/ Wherein does the plight of the
1 wheat grower begin to- compare with
the plight ~of the copper miner? The
wheat grower is. 81 per. cent better
/ off proportionately than the copper
miner.
If the copper miner had the wheat
: growers average increase the past
the average, the price Of copper
should today be selling at "a cents
per pound. If we had this increase
of ten cents per pound, the copper
districts Of Arizona would radiate q
| degree of prosperity throughout the
state greater than any heretofore
! known. Our valleys as we'll as our
| hills would be vibrant with energy;
our civic communities would TEEN
/ with improvements our citizens en-
/ joying an income sufficient for g
| livable present and building COM
| potency for the future.
| We need not beseech protection
with the humility of mendicanr.
We of these Arizona hills and valleys
are citizens Our forbears fought
the battles to establish and maintain
this land; aided in laying the foun-
dation of our economic realm. We