The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-12-11

establishment of four regional labor
atorties to develope new uses for sur
pluses. Chemergy, or chemical re
search can be the Door to our New
Frontiers" which means creating 9
market for our potential SURPRISES by
making those surpluses into synthetic
products, especially rubber so badly
now. This could be a complete solu
ton to our economic problems. II
this policy had been followed our pro
duction would had to have been ex-
banded to the maximum This would
create income and employment for all
groups, stabilize prices and make sub
sides and relief agencies unneces-
sary.
| There are financially powerful
groups in both parties that live along
the sea coasts that want to break
down our tariff laws. Reciprocal
trade is necessary and beneficial,
while competitive trade, especially
with production control is detrimental,
and actually takes the market away
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to the foreign producers.
The trend in the last 10 years has
been towards free trade" and it is
noticeable that many of the present
appointee officials are constantly talk
ing against tariffs. To protect myself
must quote extracts from certain
officials and give references.
Quote: "The implication is that"
the Rubber Reserve company and the
War Production Board" are "selfishly
and deliberately protecting the inter-
ests of their friends and associates
for after the war" (Cong. Rec. Aug.
6, 1912, p. 6973).
DR.. Henry F. Grady, president of the
American President Lines Ltd, San
Francisco, Calf, spoke in Boston,
Mass, Oct. 9, 1912, at the Foreign
national commerce is not liberalized
through the gradual but steady lessen
ing of quotas, exchange control tariffs
and all controls designed to restrict
rather than expand trade, little can
be accomplished under any of the
other items"
Reciprocal products are on the free
list, but tariffs are on competitive
products only. In the opening article
in the appendix of the Cong. Rec. of
Nov. 5, 1912, the vice president, Mr..
Wallace said this: ITO give us rub
Der security in the future, it will not
be necessary to produce all of our
supply synthetically For future ma
tional rubber security it will be suffi- |
cient if we have plant facilities and |
lion of synthetic rubber which we can
quickly mobilize in case of sudden
need, meanwhile pushing ahead with
'esearch that will keep improving the
quality and reducing the COSTS" Real
security" cannot be at
aimed by attempting to be self suffi-
,ient in everything" Adoption by
he United States of a new isolation
SIN, on the nazi order after this war
S over, would force the rest of the
world to do likewise" and would lead
within few years to World war g."
We lost the rubber supply from
asia; and Mr.. Wallace seems to say s
hat if we made our own rubber from
ur own products, and not furnish the
money to the South American coun-
ries to develope rubber production
4 South America and buy our rubber {
rom them we would lose the friend {
hip of those countries, which might
cad to World war g. s
From a logical standpoint Mr.. Wal t
ice is wrong, as wars are caused {
1 the over populated Industrial coun- {
lies in central Europe that can not |
reduce enough to feed themselves
nd having to seek raw materials in |
for their manufactured prod G
cts and cannot obtain what they d
eed, declare war to get it. i
1t would appear that if we in Amer C
"a that can feed ourselves, should n
,rbid our farmers from producing e
hat we consume domestically, and t.
len try to keep the European coun- il
les from getting the trade necessary r
II their very livelihood, that we
ould surely lose the friendship of L
lose European countries and finally
ad to World war 8.
Perhaps we should look at the rec :
DIS of certain European countries
refer to Mr. Wallace's own 1910 a.
ear Book of Agriculture, page 240 ;,
hich refutes Mr.. Wallace's state !,
ent about tariffs. l quote Exports =,
meat and meat products" "soon
me to rank third in Importance,
cir value rose from approximately
100000 in 1865 to over S116,OOO,OOO
1880 and over S179, 100000 in 1900"
he results of these huge cereal and
eat imports on European social and
onomic life were of the most funda-
entail character, on the one hand
e laboring classes in cities were
divided with cheap and abundant
ID, at the same time, however,
ropean farmers, unless protected
tariff barriers, were unable to COM
tie and many were ruined by declin-
: prices and falling land values.
eat Britain was our chief market,
d with free trade prevailing after
} repeal of the corn laws in 1916
'iculture there suffered particular
From 1878 to 1907 wheat acreage
England declined so per cent An
empt was made to shift to meat
and for time farmers in
Eat Britain, by concentrating on
,erior quality, withstood Texan
npetition. But American meat i'm