The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
Pop Corn Farmer
Hits Low Tariff
In Radio Confes+
Terre Huute Man Cont See
Reason For Present
Treaties
FOREIGN LABOR CHEAP
Prosperity Will Return Il
Foreign Competition
Is Curbed

Another winner in the "Path To
Prosperity" radio program contest on
high tariff has kindly sent in his prize
winning essay. He is Bert w. Hall,
popcorn farmer, of Terre Haute, In
diana. His agreements against allow
ing American workmen to face the
competition of cheap foreign labor
follows:
So many of our people are out Of
employment because our President and
his staff have opened the door to
foreign products produced by cheap
labor at a time when he should give
every protection to American labor.
In my opinion, our President has made
one blunder after another ever since
he has been in office. When you throw
so many sprays in the wheels of our
industries, the machinery is sure to
stop. That means more idle men.
Why don't they say America for
Americans, now and always.
Here are few illustrations of how
low tariff effects my home town,
Terre Haute, Indiana. | have been
growing popcorn for eighteen years
and never sold it for less than 212c
per pound in carload lots till this year,
when l sold one car at one dollar
($1.40) forty cents. my loss being
about $500 on one car lot.
We have the Davis Gardens, the
largest garden under glass in the
country, which suffered a great loss
from the Cuba treaty. In December,
before the treaty was made, we i'm
ported one million pounds of tomatoes.
The next December, after the treaty,
we imported sixteen million pounds of
tomatoes.
Each year the green house indus
tries Of the United States use one
million, five hundred thousand tons of
coal; fourteen thousand carloads of
fertilizer; train loads of containers.
Now more than one half of the hot
houses have closed down on account
of competition Of imports from cheap
foreign labor.
The Commercial Solvent Corpora
tion in Terre Haute has been buying
Argentine corn for 7c bushel cheap
er than our own corn. Their capacity
is about three thousand bushels day.
went to a number of my home
grocers and asked if they had foreign
canned meats. Everyone of them had
the meat and said they could sell it
cheaper than they could sell our own
killed meats. Farmers, stop and
think before it is too late.
Our large glass factory had to close
it's doors. The garment factories have
shut down. Our coal mines on one
railroad in 1929 had fifty-five coaches
hauling miners to and from the mines.
Today the same road has two coaches
hauling men to work. The reason for
this: coal is being imported from
Russia by the millions of tons. Pork
is imported from Poland and beef from
South America. Almost every toy the
baby plays with comes from Japan
hope every American citizen will just
stop and ponder few moments over
these ungrateful laws being enacted
We hear great cry from Mr..
Wallace about over production. l can
say to Mr.. Wallace, if we will pro-
tect American labor so they can have
a buying power from their labor, so
their children can have plenty to eat
and good clothes to wear, we will not
have an over production.
We will never climb out of the mire
until we have tariff high enough to
block foreign competition.