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Show SPECIAL SESSION" (By L. A. Ilollenbeck.'j The special session of congress is now on Hbover's hands, wit h I be primary object of giving relief to the rarmers. The McNary-Haugen equal Ization fee was vetoed twice by Cool-idg6 Cool-idg6 and it will probably not again be attempted. One of the principal things .18 to try and help out and boost the price of eagar, o tkat there will be no aompetttion from Cafca or the Philippines, Philip-pines, or at least to tartially cut cut competition. It acting ta bad I faith with Cuba, to do it, and also adopting a Spanish policy against the Philippines that canned the! Philippine rebellions againM Spain. It la noteworthy that a high tariff ton sugar beneficially affects 1 1-2 per cent of the people of this country, while 9S 1-2 per cent haye to pay the bills and higher cost of living. It i6 doubtful policy 'to make the great majority pay more for a necessity of life than what they should pay to specially benefit a man and a half out of a hundred. Then, too, there is a scheme to make other nations pay a higher tariff on goods shipped here. That makes the foreign nations na-tions sore, and they threaten to retaliate. re-taliate. Argentina buys probably more than twice as much from the United States as we buy from Argentina. Argen-tina. And still, there is a proposal to raise the tariffs still higher against Argentina, and Argentina buys 95 per cent of its automobiles from the United States and threatens that if we raise the tariff against her, that she will .buy' her automobiles from Europe. That would cause a stagnation stagna-tion in American industry, and would hurt everybody, including the farmers. farm-ers. Congress nnd the far sighted men all over the country see the dangers, and there Is a proposal to i pay the farmers a bonus so that the farmers will get more money, and so that foreign nations will not retaliate retali-ate against us. The true way would bo to cut the high tariff favoring the manufacturers. That would give Hie manufacturers a good price for their gepds and would enable the farmers to buy In a cheaper market, and then they would need no tariff and n.o bonus either. That would tend to restore the natural law of competition competi-tion and the law of the survival of tha fittest. But if the congress gives the farmer farm-er a b:nus, then the people are hit twice instead of once. The high tariff tar-iff i; ens hit, ar.rt causes U3 to pay higher prices for what we buy, and if that method bo retained, and we pay I a bo?:u3 to the farmers too, then we arc the fellows that pay the bonus, which is also added on lo what we buy, and hence we are hit hard twice in order to maintain a high tariff so that the manufacturers can get enormous enor-mous profits. It Is perfectly plain to any thinking think-ing man that high tariffs are opposed oppos-ed to the law of nature and tends to get us into trouble all of the time. |