The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-07

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II now only to Illustrate We claimed
for years that to us that canal would
mean millions in added profits on
wheat; that it would save in the
transportation of our copper and zine
which you fabricate into brass here
| in New England; that it would re-
fleet to advantage on wool which we
produce and you weave into cloth;
that its beneficial results would flow
! like the water it would guide to the
sea, into every home and business
and industry we own, and that in the
cheaper exchange of manufactures
all would be gamers.
In Mr.. Hartman monograph
which came to my desk just before l
came here, your Chamber of Com
merce says with the rest of New Eng
land that the same development
would mean to you lower transport
alton costs on much of your food sup
| ply, with a conseqent lesser cost of
| living; lower freight rates on many
raw materials for your factories and
mills; lower rates on your finished
products to many markets; supply
of export grain and flour to revive
your export business; the removal of
| the handicap of rail differentials and
| a reasonable supply of power. 'as =
And yet, in spite of the fact that
both sections now generally recogn-s
/ ize this development to be an equally
common need, the mutual recogni-
ftion of that fact is very recent indeed.
| | advance this as but an illustration
of what might result from a common
study of other of our prblems. To
specify, American farming interests
sell almost 90 per cent of their pro-
duets in the home markets of the I'm
! tied States. In proportion as they
can increase that percentage sold
| here through the added huvin-' revve-
of industry ana laboi s,Nh ot tnear
| difficulties as grow out of that 10
per cent surplus will disappear. Our
western farmers recognize that. They
desire a general high state of pros.
perity to labor and industry. They
are willing to help achieve it. 1t
gives them their market.
| Likewise it is we'll for industry to
consider together with the developing
| of export markets in foreign lands
the tremendous possibilities of ex-
banding the markets for manufacture
ed goods here at home. The west
and the middle west offer the richest
of potential markets. If the pur-
chasing power of the farmers of that
section alone was increased to the
parity recognized in both party plat
forms as equitable and justit would
add some three billion dollars to the
sales possibilities for American
goods. Should it be done for all ag-
Iriculture the sum would be doubled.
Here Isl a field for constructive
craftsmanship which suggests the
way to the council table and not to
/ the arenas of local chickering's or Sec
ltional cutting of. Threats. 1t affords
| the possibility of that sort of accomp-
| lishment for the common good which
constitutes a true purpose of govern
ment. All of us may with benefit ex-
| plore it together. In the light of such
an effort the way will become in
creasingly clearer in the writing of
schedules and measures for the plac-
ling of the agricultural interests of
America on basis of economic eq-
uality with other industries, and of
giving to every other industry and. to
labor whatever protection they indiv-l
Eidually require . Without that spirit
the effort to write any of our needs
into law will very possibly fail. That
must not be, for the spindles must be
turning here in New England and the
producers of the raw materials from
the soil must achieve their fair meas
ure Of success.
Personally I am, | hope construc-
lively, concerned that a tariff meas
ure shall pass which will establish
and maintain the principle of fully
balanced protection. Agriculture, in
dustry and labor are entitled to par
ity of return, and | hold that he who
eliminates any one of the three from
his just consideration is fundamental |
ly false to them all.