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Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF last the Democratic obstruction machine at Washington has disguise and come out boldly for a tariff on farm pro- lat will tend to keep the husky tillers of American soil not If om assumed profiteering, but also from making a living. mocrats could have their will in the matter, they would amply the great importing interests of the nation, who revel in :ime profiteering when accorded the privilege 'of matching the off all Europe and Asia against the American workers stand-ivinand would give preferential rates to manufacturers who raw materials, while at the same time they would amply pro-e- ir bor of g, finished products. nator Walsh, the Democratic demigod of the tariff, because he rom Massachusetts, where Senator Lodge comes from, charges e proposed American protective tariff now before the senate, rectly benefit the farmer and the stock grower. Up to date ublican senator has denied his statement. In fact it is a pretty ediction none will deny it. Bt of the American farmers know by experience that under a ratic tariff Canada and other near-b- y agricultural ies, never fail to flood the American market with their pro-hshutting out the American farmer from his home-markwt compete on higher wage scales, higher machinery cost free-tra- de us et standard of living. wers of livestock know that the enactment of the emergency pped the tremendous imports of New Zealand lamb and other leat products from South America and guaranteed him a profit 10me market. The American farmer and the American stock know that because of this emergency tariff protection, com-w- h assistance in the form of liberal extension of credits, they lingback on their feet and are again able to count on making 'gher Me 1 5111 progress. the returning prosperity of the American farmer and the stock grower irritates Senator Walsh and the Democrats. to make them real angry. They denounce it as outrageous lng that diould be prevented at all hazard. They have sent calamity howl that if the American farmer and the Amer-groware protected in the home market it will add at the I ving costs of every American family (based on a f six) cah and every year. This is a form of robbery that be they vociferously proclaim. They want ncan fari'-cand the American stock grower put back where en the Democrats were forced to give up the reins of gov-l- n 1921, and a Democratic tariff had left them flat broke. als;-- . belongs to a great manufacturing and importing iUch states depend for prosperity and continued profit on their industries and condition of the national market c to them. To save each family a hypothetically and Nall y assumed annual charge of $80, Senator Walsh and the er r reist of the Democrats at Washington, would wreck the home market for the American farmer and the American stock grower. It appears from reliable governmental statistics that the American farmers buy 40 per cent of all the manufactured products of the country. He is the greatest single class purchaser of textile goods and the textile industry is the greatest single industry in many of the great eastern manufacturnig states like Massachusetts, which Senator Walsh guards so zealously with a high tariff on manufactured products and raw materials, while he blantantly fights all other tariff rates designed solely to protect the home market for the industries he sponsors and miserably represents. The American farmer is second only to the railroads as a consumer of steel and iron products, being the ultimate consumer of 30 per cent of all manufactured steel and iron of the nation. The American farmer is the largest consumer of wood products, being the ultimate consumer of 46 per cent of all manufactured wood products. The American farmer is the largest class consumer of motor vehicles he buys 30 per cent of the annual output of the automobile and truck factories and of accessories, tires and the like. The American farmer owns more than 3,000,000 motor vehicles, which according to data given out by the automobile industry is greater than that owned by. all the rest of the world outside of the United States. The American farmer consumes, exclusively, the output of 600 factories making farm implements. All of the employees of these industries making things to keep the farmer going, are in turn consumers of textile and leather industries of Massachusetts and other eastern manufacturing states. When in 1921 the American farmer and stock grower were flat broke under the machinations of the Underwood tariff and Democratic financial chaos, they had to quit buying. As a direct consequence, 5,000,000 American, working people were walking the streets of the overgrown eastern cities looking for a job. What did $80 a year increase in living costs mean to these cast-oworkers then? Would they not have cheerfully agreed to pay it in order to obtain steady employment, even at greatly reduced wages ? The Democrats would push the American farmer and the stock grower off the face of the earth to make room for the free importation of foreign products and raw materials, just to save the assumed mcasley sum of $80 dollars a year to American families, who in the process would be left absolutely high and dry, without a home market, without a job and without money to pay for the stuff imported by a profiteers. predatory class of peace-tim- e It appeals that prosperous American farmers, workers and stock growers arc worth considerable to home industry in short, worth so much, that said industries will go broke if the Democrats should succeed in legislating the farmer, the stockmen and the workers out of business. Think it over. ut |