Evening star., 1936-09-12
DICKINSON SCORES
TARIFF REDUCTION
Ruin of Agriculture Seen
in IoWan's Appeal to
MONTGOMERY.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

S"N, ONPNNAH~'
l2.-Charging the tariff policies OF
the Democratic administration are
running" the agricultural industry
in the United States. Senator L. j.
Dickinson of Iowa appealed to the
farmers of Montgomery County at
the Republican rally here yesterday to
support Gov. Alfred M. Landon in
the presidential race.
He also assailed the New Deal in
bitter fashion and declared the Roose-
velt-Landon fight is not fight be-
tween the old Democratic party and
the old Republican party, but one
between New Dealers who have taken
the old Democratic party for ride
and those who believe in the Consti-
tuition and American principals.
The tariff attack was echoed by
State Senator Harry w. LeGore, G.
o. P. congressional candidate from
Maryland's sixth district. who added
that taking land out of production
has opened an abundant American
market to foreign competition and
the alien farmer is laughing up his
sleeves at the agriculturists in this
country"
Dickinson, who made the keynote
speech for Herbert Hoover at the
Republican convention in Chicago in
1882, told his audience, gathered at
a meeting of the Landon-LeGore
Club on the farm of Walter johnson.
former base ball idol, he believes
tariff adjustments should be made
more difficult, rather than easier.
Tariff Protection Uncertain.
"If I had my way about it," he
declared. the first act of the next
Congress would be to repeal the
reciprocal trade authority vested in
the President. No one knows from
day to day just what his tariff pro-
lection will be.
Polish hams are competing with
American hams, Irish bacon with
American bacon. We find corn being
shipped here from Argentina and
processed. We find wheat shipped
from Canada filling our feeding lots.
lCoiI llllih 10 bClAlS oCilb all ZOO tAiN
st. Lawrence River to compete with
the New England farmers. This is
simply a method by which the Ameri-
can market is opened up to foreign
producers.
''It may interest you to know the
tion permitted agricultural impor' in
the year 1885 in an amount of 1884,
099,397. If these imports had been
grown on American :1il they would
have utilized 80 3,500,O0O acres of Amer
ican farm land
Discussing the recovery program of
President Roosevelt, the speaker pre-
dicted that confidence will not be re-
stored, business will not assume new
proportions, money will not be invest
ed and unemployment will prevail "if
we continue to chase panaceas."
Private Industry Sole Penalty.
ut should now be a potent fact to
every observer that the Government
can not employ all the people," he
said. ANY attempt at such a pro-
gram simply means failure. Private
industry is the only remedy. There
fore, we should meet the conditions
and again give confidence to private
industry"
Senator Dickinson said tie re-
financing of farm Indebtedness and
builders, as well, has not been helpful
because they have only been post
ponement of the evil day" when they
must be paid.
"You can afford to devote 80 per
cent of your time to politics from now
to election day to save America for
Americans" he stated. "If you re-
turn the New Dealers it will give them
vote of confidence that will en-
cor-age them to go the limit.
"a lot of people don't give any more
attention to politics than they do to
religion, and in most cases nowadays
that is mighty little. We have got
to take the Government out of the
hands of the brain trust, and the way
to do that is to elect Republican
House of Representatives.
"It is the House where appropria-
tions are made, and If you take away
the appropriations most of the bu-
reaus and commissions would close
up and those fellows who are getting |
big salaries for running things they
don't know anything about would lose
their salaries"
Good Acts Credited to G. O. p.
He attributed the "few good meas
ures of the present administration"
to amendments affixed to New Deal |
measures by Republican legislators,
among them the guaranty feature |
inserted in the banking bill at ''the |
insistence Of Republican Senator VAN
denburg Of Michigan"
LeGores who is opposing the Demo-
cratic Sincumbent, Representative !