Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-03-27
TARIFF BILL
A BETRAYAL
influence OF Senator Grundy Is Ac.
credited to Switch of Some
Democrats.
BY H. G. TEIGAN

Last week ST. Paul labor won its
first skirmish in the battle for con-
troll of the city government. The
LabOr-Progressive association, as the
st. Paul branch of the FarmerLabOr
movement is designated, succeeded
in nominating it's candidates for
mayor, comptroller and members of
the city council.
James, NJ. Clancy, labor's endorsee
for mayor, defeated Mayor HOdgson
for denomination and will be opposed
in the final election on May 6 by Ger
hard Bundle, candidate of the big
business groups. Mr.. Clancy was
elected to the city council II years
ago and at each succeeding election
has been reelected to that place.
The excellent showing of labor S
candidates in the st. Paul city cleo
ton omens we'll for victory in the
state. 1t must, however, be cOnSid-
cred that the fine showing of the st.
Paul labor movement is due in the
main to the excellent organization
that is maintained in season and out
of season. A similar organization ex-
listing in all parts of Minnesota would
make the state election next Novem-
Der a certainty for the Fafmer-Labor
ticket.
Tariff Bill Betrayal.
The Republican reactionaries of the
Senate. aided by a small group of
plunderbound Democrats passed the
Smoot tariff bill. The bill will now
go to the conference where it will be
adjusted to harmonic with the pre-
viously approved Hawley bill of the
House.
The correspondent of the Minneapo-
lis Tribune at the national Capitol
summarizes the situation in the Trib-
une's issue. of March "a. While he
comedies that agricultural tariff rates
rates on industrial products will more
| than do away with the gains. He goes
on to explain that while it gives the
farmer some benefits it takes away
more than it gives but not by so grea,
a margin as does the present law
nor by nearly so much of a margin
as would have been the case haG
either the Hawley House bill or the
Senate finance committee bill passed.
There is no doubt that the new
tariff bill if finally approved by the
president will have more harmful eff
fects upon agriculture than any pre-
vious tariff law has had Industrial
rates have been pushed upward anC
it is estimated by tariff experts thai
the increased bill to the public as {
result of the bill will amount to more
than one billion dollars each year.
Grundy Splits Coalition.
For a time the coalition between
insurgents of the agricultural state.
| and Democrats seemed to indicate {
victory for agriculture, but after the
-arrival of Jos. r. Grundy, not as {
lobbyist of the Manufacturers associ
alton, but as a United States senator
from Pennsylvania, the coalition went
to pieces. Certain Democrats joined
forces with the Grundy Republicans
thereby affecting a sufficient change
i'm voting strength of the contestins
elements of the Senate to transfer
control to the reactionaries.
| Naturally the Republicans will suf
fer most heavily as a result of thi.
betrayal of agricultural interests
But Democrats will also have to shar,
some responsibility. Were it not fo
the assistance of the Democrats in tn,
Senate the program of the industrial
plunderbund couldnot have been pu
over.
| There is one source of satisfac
ton in it all. The farmers of Mime
sofa and other northwest states real
ize more fully than they have eve
realized before that they are bein,
gypped. 1t seems certain that thei
resentment will be shown at the poll
in November.