Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-06-19

some OF the farmers, principally for Spe
cialized classes such as nuts, vege-
tables, fruits, milk and cream, pro-
duced in tht East; but the 900 in
creases in industrial schedules will
more than offset any value derived
from increases on agricultural pro-
ducts. Vegetable oils will still mem
ace our dairy industry and livestock
farmers. =
Tropical starches and blackstrap
molasses and screenings will continue
to flow into our markets. Not even
gesture against Philippine importa-
ton can be found in the entire bill
Hides were given an increase that
will amount to less than SO cents per
hide while the increase in leather
and shoes will cost the farmer and
consumer from $1.5O to $3.50 for each
pair of shoes he buys. Poultry pro-
ducers are facing over-production in
eggs and yet dried eggs are not given
any consideration. Cinnamon are
starving to death and yet American
capital is drying eggs in China and
shipping the dried product into United
States in competition with American
egg producers.
Tariff provisions should have been
limited to agriculture and a very
small number of industries as was
recommended by President Hoover.
The building industry is in a severe
depression even under present con-
ditions, yet duties on items that go
into the building of homes and in
dustrial institutions have been mater
tally raised and will only tend to fur
ther delay construction. We vote an
additional tax on gasoline but the in
creased duty on cement will mean that
the cement manufacturer will get our
extra 1 cent gasoline tax as they are
well enough organized to control
prices and can easily add the ad-
ditional duty on the cost of cement
The wheels of industry are slow
ing down every day and laborers are
thrown out of employment all because
the purchasing power of agriculture
is not up to par and in the face of
situation of this kind, many legis-
latOrs who promised the home mar
ket to the farmers are prolOnging
this condition by attempting to salts
fly the farmer that they have fulfilled
their pledges by giving him the least
protection that in their judgment will
let them get by and be reelected
and have added still higher duties
on industrial rates that will far off
set any benefit accrued by the slight
increases on agricultural products. II
it were intended that the tariff SEIZED
ules should actually protect the
farmer against imports, why worry
about whether they were placed too
high? Why not give him what he
asks for and add 10 per cent to it
Then it surely would have done what
for the farmer.
AS the bill stands, it will add many
hundreds of millions of dollars yearly
to the expense bill of the American
people and will have given very little
assistance to agriculture and will only
benefit such industrial groups who
have near monopolistic control on
products they are manufacturing
Farmers of the United States have
demonstrated they can produce more
per man and more efficiently than
any farmer in the world. They have
operated i'm an unprotected market
and have bought their supplies in
a protected one. They have made
every possible attempt to secure JUS
tice but have been blocked on every
side and we are beginning to wonder
just how much longer the farmer will
continue to support the high protec-
tive tariff for the other fellow and
nothing for himself. We wouldn't be