The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-10-23
OR NOTHING"

OR NOTHING"
For half dozen years the political spokesman
in congress for the Northwest have been telling their
colleagues that they wanted certain thing in the
line of farm legislation cor nothing"
They got nothing.
Then the question was referred to the country
and first in the Republican convention and then in the
presidential campaign, the "or-nothing" group were
completely routed, the rural sections voting
whelmingly for Hoover and his plaza plan by the
way that we might have had at any time and under
which solid foundations beirg laid for the perman-
ent progress of agriculture.
Now we come to the tariff, and the same old cor
nothing" school comes to the front. National Com
mitteeman Mckenzie goes down to Washington and
says The tariff bill before congress will do moth
ing to benefit the farmer"
The only trouble with this statement is that it
isn't So Everyone who has taken the trouble to read
the tariff bill to read the newspapers knows that
it isn't so. There increased and, in most cases,
prohibtve tariffs meats, dairy products, poultry
products grans f1ax wool and sugar. We have nine
ty per cent of what asked for, and there is no
saying we will not get the other ten per cent if
don't everyday the game
"The present bill offers farmers more and greater
inequality" says Senator Schall, which also isn't
The congress was called in extraordinary session
to pass tariff bill that would save the American
market to the American farmer President Hoover
recommended that the revision be limited to the farm
schedules, and to few industrial schedules where it
is clearly shown that foreign importatons adj
versely affecting employment Certainly the American
farmer interested in restoring employment in those
lines where there is striking unemployment because
unemployed people sometimes don't eat For the bet
ter part of century, the American farmer supported
tariff policy solely for industry in order that he might
have market here for his food products instead of
sending them across the seas. Even as late as Nc
Kinley's time that the main purpose of the tariff
and American agriculture had the greatest of pros
perity from McKnley's time until Democratic tariff
bill interviewed that it had.
There is unemployment in the cement and brick
industries along the two coasts and these industries
given increased tariff, which will never affect
us here at all in the price of cement and brick, but
will help to better market for Minnesota prod
ucts among those workers. There is distress in the
shoe and textile industries and these given increas
which will set the wheels to turning and
provide wages with which things to eat be bought
There is unemployment in the single mills of Wash
ington and Oregon, and the failure of the Fordney
McCumber act to meet this situation the Republi
senator in Washington.
These things mentioned just about the sun
warranted industrial increases" which are leading
many people astray. All of them may not stand but
1T is our purpose to back up President Hoovers posi-
tlon tnat an industry suffering from unemployment is
entitled to fair hearing and square deal, whether
that industry be located in Minnesota Massachusetts
The American workman has always been the chief
beneficiary of the tariff in better wages and better
standard of living in spite of all the demagoguery about
the tariff barons of the East" Now the American
farmer is being taken into the picture His natura
ally is the protected workngman.
Why drive him away with demand for an ex
elusive farm tariff "or-nothng
Especially when there are of him than
there are of us.-Morris Tribune.
THE PROPOSED CALENDAR CHANGE
The United States Chamber of Commerce is su
pervising the proposed plans for the change in the
calendar year, and at present ballots have been sub
mtted to the Chamber of Commerce in ST. Louis 70,
vote to determine the best plans for this smnlifca
ton.
Two plans have been approved. One is the "Equa
Quarters Plan, which contemplates year of twelve
months OF equal quarters the months containing thir
ty and thrty-one days. respectively The other. the
Thirteen Months Plan," provided for year of thir
teen months of twenty days each the extra da,
being designated as s'blanko day.
The advantages set forth by the proponents OF
the revision out-numbered the disadvantages The re-
vision would remedy defects arising out of the in
equaites in the length of weeks months and quarters
and would prevent the shifting dates It would re-
duce confusion and uncertainty in economic calcula
tions and would provide for greater uniformity II
business transactions.
The revision would end the present confusion
throughout the world arising from the use of separate