Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-08

have a free trade nation, without
excius laws against cheap labor
or tariff restrictions against the
products of cheap labor.
Without tariff protection. con-
sumers" would buy steel tractors,
cream s~eparators. and factory equip
ment more cheaply from Germany.
shipping equipment from England,
textiles from Czechoclovakia, paper
products from Japan and China,
sugar and Starches from Java (wherc
labor Is paid fifteen cents a day.
crockery and dishes from Belgium
and Sweden. dairy products from
New Zealand and Denmark. fruits
from the tropics. fuel oil from Mex
leo. and on down the line. until our
consumers would each and sever
ally be either out of aiob or work.
ing at the price Of cheap labor Of
the rest Of the world-and buying
nothing because they would not
have the money with which to buy"
"The American protective tariff
has enabled the consumer TO be a
consumer by making it possible for
him TO be a producer.
This statement Is signed by: Fred
Brenckman, washington represen-
tative, national grange: Chester III.
Gray. Washington representative.
American Farm Bureau federation
Ernest A. Burguieres. president Do
meStic Sugar Producers association:
A. M. LOOMS. secretary The National
Dairy union: G. F.. burst. secretary.
National Horticultural council.
Shut Out Competition
TN one sentence. the claim that
the tariff bill will increase living
cost Is answered one-half by the fact
that this law Is going to increase the
domestic market for many agricul-
tural products by shutting out for
eign competition, and one-half by
the fact that 1t is going to make in
duStry more busy and more prosper
Gus. so those engaged in those indus
tries which have been handicapped
and limited by foreign competition
may expand and grow and pay their
employees sufficient wages To e..able
them to buy not only tomatoes. but
all other American farm produce.
1T should be admitted that many
people differ as to whether or not
all rates in the bill are the best
or that the bill Is as well balanced
as II should be. 1t may be that e r
tain industrial rates are too high
perhaps one are not high enough:
while there are those who claim that
some agricultural rates are unluSti-
fled and too high, while we are
very firm IN claiming that the rate
on tomatoes should be put up TO
three cents. that green peas should
carry a rate which will permit the
south to re-enter that business. and
that the winter rates on egg plant
and cucumbers should be just as
high as any other months rates. So
1t goes. But criticism by Jul repre-
sentatives who ignore the public de-
mand of their own constituents and
the pledge and demand OF the party
platform to work for and vote for
the bill does not help to correct any
defect. 1t is too we'll known in wash
ington right now just which Texas
and other southern senators and
congressman will blindly follow an
outworn political ghost. and vote
against the bin. TO have their sug-
gestions or criticisms have any
weight. The kind Of criticism which
will have weight in Washington, in
the senate. and in the house. is con-
structive criticism. based on real
facts and actual interest. by these
who want a bill that they can and
will vote for.
Bill Needs Changes
ANY criticism which Is answered
by the cynical comment. well. he
votes against the bill anyway" lacks
every element of effectiveness. We
do not know just what the rate in
some other schedule may In the full
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