Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-25
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MILFORD, FRIDAY, NOV. 81, 1927.
THAT the tariff question does vi
tally affect the farmers of Delaware,
and especially Sussex and Kent
counties, is clearly proven by the
canned tomato market, as it has ex-
listed in the United States for the
past three years. The low priced
labor of Italy, where the population
is greater than the industries of
that country can possibly absorb,
produces on low priced lands, toma-
toes that are canned, shipped across
the ocean and sold in the American
market at a price below the cost of
growing, packing and selling toma-
toes in this country. The low priced
freights in Italian built vessels
make this largely possible. Della
ware farmers who once depended
upon the tomato for his money crop,
now because of this competition,
cannot afford to grow them for the
Gamers. Even the fresh tomato
market is going rapidly to the
Mexican growers just south of Tex
as, and to the growers in Cuba. So
here is one condition that each
farmer in Delaware can understand,
because it affects his money re-
ceipts. The tariff can protect the
home growers if it is applied, and
this problem needs only publicity,
to have growers realize that the
tariff is a benefit and help to their
farming operations.
81 am neither a high nor low
tariff man." says B. G. Cobb, vice
president Commonwealth Power
Corporation, "but do believe in
the principle of protection for pro-
lection for products manufactured
in this country. Protection has
meant not only profit for the en-
ployer but also profit for the en-
ploye.
Some of our farmers and the
farming industry has been the back
bone of our countrywide have been
complaining about the tariff wall.
would do well to remember that if
it is destroyed, SO. too will their
markets be destroyed, for with the
resultant influx of foreign manu-
featured goods there can only be I'M
employment and great reduction of
purchasing power.
ENGLAND today, notwithstanding
her Wanted Free Trade policy, is
paying three times as much per
capita tariff tax as we in America.
And why? Because she fails to
protect her factory workmen, by
admitting manufactured products of
other lands practically free of duty,
and at the same time charges high
tariffs on basic commodities such as
foodstuffs and raw materials of
which she is so much in need. This
has meant unemployment, the week
" dole, and other things of like ma
ture. That she will correct these
things as time goes on is beyond
question, for she is of sturdy heart
and of valiant spirit"
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WITHOUT good roads the modern
automobile would be useless for
practical purposes, and the airplane
will be as impractical without a
network of landing fields and cleo
trio signaling devices at night. Now
is the time to consider making pro-
visions for this nearby method of
navigation for both pleasure and
commercial purposes, by the towns
and cities, or even the rural resorts
in this peninsula. From all indica-
lions and past experience with road
building, it will cost much money to
build necessities for air navigation
by the communities to be served.
The airplane is a coming means of
transportation, and airports must be
provided, just the same as we pro-
vide ports and wharVes for ships.
Without doubt the airplanes, like
the automobiles, will be taxed to
provide part of the money, but the
tax payers in the various communi-
ties will also be called upon for a
share of the expense, the same as in
road building. This is something
for the men and women of the pres
ent generation to consider, and a
well-worked-out plan Of procedure
is essential to save waste while
providing necessary facilities for
this newest means of transportation.
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STRENGTH.
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to bias; but it is Overwhelmingly