Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-13

respectfully submit that these conspicuous failures
the part the Republican party to keep its pledges to
the farmer not compensated for by the duties that
haze been placed 1Ueat corn, OATS barley rye rice
and pork These products are an export basis and
import duties them Of little or no vatte For the
most part these duties haze effect and chen they do
haze effect the effect temporary qmd does not then
feet to the farmer anything like the duty imposed.
We have duty of 42c bushel on wheat but in 1927
exported 100 million bushels of wheat This fall the
American farmers living along the Canadian line hauled
their wheat into Canada paid import duty of 12c per
bshe and sold their wheat in Canada for higher price
than they could obtain in the United States In face of
such facts these what beneficial effect on the farmer
does the 42c duty wheat have?
We have a 15c duty on corn but we export Is mil
lion bushels of corn We have 15c duty on OATS but we
export million bushels of oats We have zoe duty on
barley, but we export 40 million bushels of barley We
have 15c duty rye, but export 26 million bushels
of rye. We have varying duties pork and pork prod
ucts. but we export nearly one billion pounds
The duties these products, that are on an export
basis avail the farmer little nothing They may make
statistical showing but the farmers troubles are not
statistical. They are financial.
think that these examples will convince any fair
minded person that the American farmer has valid
complaint against the Republican party and Justly
the representatives of that party in Congress Of
failure to keep it's prediction pledge .IE#
again submit to you that your quotations. in your
letter to of the party pledges industry has no bear
ing the failure of the Republican party to keep its
pledges to the farmer.
The allegation that we are following false gods is
equally without bearing the question of ISSUE At the
most such charge is matter of opinion and not Of
provabe fact. May suggest that your comparison of
attitude with that of certain newspapers during the
free silver issue is not at all apt pertinent The Mime
apolis Tribune theoretically supported the socalled
sound money cause" Even So may even be said that
the gold standard has been justified by the logic of
its protagonsts among whom the Minneapolis Tribune
conspicuous but by the discovery of gold in Alaska
and the perfection of the cyanide process Both of these
factors, unforeseen and unpredictabe into the
equation after the country had decided in favor of the
gold standard
l would say that closer parallel of the present
situation would be the Wnona speech of the Republican
candidate for the Presidency who attempted to justify
the failure of the Republican party keep its pledges
You will recall that the Republican party had promised
to revise the tariff downwards and failed to do with
results that unfortunate at least for the Repub
lcan party for the next eight years.
In conclusion want again to you that our
demands for the fument of the pledges to the farmer
wise made in opposition to the needed adjust
ments in behalf of industry We feel that agriculture is
ndustrys best customer We feel that the farmer is the
best foreign market that industry has. All that
asking is the fulflment of the simple explicit pledges
to agriculture that made in the Republican party
platform We ask for more, and we will be satisfied
with no less.
With assurance of my great esteem for the service
you have rendered your country and your party am
Sincerely yours,
F. E. MURPHY,