Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-06-13
TARIFF PROTEST
HAS 446 SIGNERS
Pine County Citizens Give Spontaneous Re-
spouse to Petition to Congress for A Square
Deal to Agriculture and Fulfillment of Cam
paign Promises.

The petition to Congress as pub
lished in last weeks American and
the request for letting the voice from
home ring out has gotten spontan-
eOus response.
The American carried Al signers to
the petition last week and this week
carries 405 signers-in all 446. The
Minneapolis Tribune had 5000 signers
from the Northwest, over three or
four states, and the Americans sig
natures of 446, one-seventh of the
Tribune's amount, and largely from
one county, shows that the people of
Pine county are alert to their inter-
ests-that of agriculture and the gen.
eral welfare of the Northwest.
Many folks have commented on the
petition, expressing satisfaction of the
work in letting Congress know that
their work is being watched at home
and that campaign promises are
wanted fulfilled. State Senator H.
C. Hanson of Barnum, who is widely
known as dairyman, signed the pc
tition the other day and expressed
pleasure in seeing this work done.
Ed Prochaska of Pine City, another
signer, wrote the American as fol-
lows:
Promised Relief.
Both the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties in the last campaign
through the medium of pamphlets,
advertising, and radio promised farm
relief legislation. President Hoover
called special session of Congress
with the advice that agricultural
products should be protected but with
very little change in the tariff on in
dustrial products.
1.-The house has passed the Hawley
tariff bill which is now up for con-
sideration in the senate. And what
is the result? A tariff that takes
more away from agriculture than it
gives. 1t is opposed by every farm
organization and farm newspaper in
the Northwest. The new bill puts
tariff of S1.25 per thousand on brick,
SC per cwt on cement, $50 on shing-
les and cedar lumber, and 1870 on
maple and birch lumber. These are
now on the free list. Sugar raises
from 2.2c per Id. to &c; Cuban sugar
Lice to 2.4c per Id.
"This all means raising the cost
of roads, silos, shingles, sheds, barns,
foundations, flOorings, chairs, tables,
any building program, the household
canning and any products in which
sugar is used.
These are only few of the items
and practically every daily newspaper
and citizen in the Northwest is OPP
posed to these raises. 1t looks very
much like case of giving agricul-
ture penny sucker and charging the
farmer nickel for it. The bill is
opposed by Congressman G. G. Good
win of this district and five other
Minnesota congressmen-one Farmer
Laborite and four Republicans.
Protests are being sent from the
whole Northwest against this discrim-
inatory legislation, which was sup
posed to be relief, to Senator Smoot,
chairman of the Senate Finance COM
mittee. 1t is well for all of us to add
our names and voice to these pro-
tests
Herewith is published the names of
signers to the petition and protest re-
ceived since the last issue of the
American. They are grouped from
the various communities or pOstoffices
in the county, and unless otherwise
noted the names come under the post
office given above each group. In
some of the lists will be found sigma
lures of folks from the Twin Cities
and other places, folks who have Wis
tied stores where the petitions. laid on
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