The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
TARIFF FLAYED
AS FRAUD BY
farm Chief
Settle Launches Fiery
Attack Before 1000 Hoo
SierS in Convention.
LAUDS MARKETING act
Brands HaWIey-SmOot Bill
as Example of u. S.
'StateSmanShip.'

'StateSmanShIp.'
Scathing denunciation of the
fraudulent" Smoot- Hawley tariff
bill was made today before 1000 In
diana farmers attending the
Twelfth annual convention OF the
Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc, at the
Claypool, by its president, William
H. Settle.
National Importance was accorded
Settles address because it embodied
the first criticism of the tariff meas
ure by an outstanding agricultural
leader and is thought to reflect the
sentiment of Americas farmers.
At the same time, Settle took OPP
portunity to praise the agricultural
marketing act, which, he said,
needs a great deal of strengthen
ing" He extolled the ability of
Alexander Legge, head of the fed
eral farm board.
Launches Shot at Radio
Settle also launched a shot at the
federal radio commission for TAX
ing away part of the radio time al
located agriculture and giving the
channel to utility interests"
The address which opened the
convention was devoted to a dis
cuSSion of the problem of Hoosier
and American farmers.
While congress was moving to-
ward the solution OF the farm
question" Settle said, 1T acted on
the tariff in a manner which de-
serves the rebuke of every intelli-
gent farmer. The Smoot- Hawley
tariff bill is without a single re-
deeming feature, so far as the farm
er is concerned.
1.-THE President asked congress to
revise the tariff in the interest OF
agriculture. It revised Che tariff in
the interest of nearly every one
else. Outside of a few specialties,
farm products were denied the shell
ter Of the great American protec-
tive system
Branded as Fraudulent
1.-THE fraudulent character Of the
Smoot-Hawley tariff is we'll illus
trated by the corn tariff" continued
Settle. 1T was increased from Is
to Is cents a bushel, though any
one with any information at all
knows that the United States ex-
ports corn and that the tariff makes
no material difference in the dones-
tic price.
However. great quantities of
tapioca are imported into the United
States and used for making starch
Congress refused to put a tariff OH
tapioca and that tariff would have
made market for 100000 to
sc 100000 bushels more corn per
yea.
Likewise, great quantities of
blackstrap molasses are imported
to make industrial alcohol, a pur-
pose for which corn is ideally quail
fed"
Settle pointed out that congress
put no tariff on blackstrap, which
would have created an outlet in
America for another thirty to forty
million bushels of corn.
BIames Poor Craftsmanship
"The Smoot- Hawley tariff is a
fraud of the first order to agricul-
ture, it is helping rapidly to destroy
o,,y. foraiof,, T,1orlrofc ~ lie a., a ,,aoz
ing example of the lack OF states
manship with which our country is
afflicted"
Settle said that an event of prime
Importance to agriculture was the
"loss of part. of the small amount
of the radio time which the farm
stations possess. One of the units
of the power trusts succeeded in
taking away part Of the only cleared
channel which has been operated
in the interests of the farmer. We
resent the victory of the utility in
terests."
The address was followed by a
discussion of the growth and expan-
sion of the National Wool Market
ing Corporation, with which the In
diana cooperative is allied, by c.
M. Allen of Boston, the special rep
resentative.
Dinner to Be Tonight
The afternoon session was devoted
to an address on the progress of the
National Grain Marketing Corpora
ton by c. E. HUFF, the president,
and a discussion Of a Poultry Mar
keting Plan for Indiana" by D. y.
Brubaker.
The annual dinner will be held at
$50 o'clock tonight when the speech
of Carl Williams, member Of the
federal farm board, will be broad
cast over station WFBM from 8 to
$3.50 p. m.
Cooperative movements will be
discussed and a director at-large
will be elected Tuesday. Settle, the
present director, is expected to be
reelected. No officers will be elected
until 1881.