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Show cess revenue under the Fordney-McCumber tariff law for a three- j year period as compared with the three-year period of the Underwood Under-wood law totals $968,62 7,5 36. In. other words we collected in tariff a billion dollars that would have had to be procured from the people by direct taxation if the former tariff law had been in effect. ef-fect. Congressman Hardy continued, "In my own district in Colorado Colo-rado the sheep and wool men were raised from bankruptcy to prosperity by the increase in the tariff. The beet sugar factories were kept open and the sugar beet growers got more for their crops because of it. The effect of the tariff was felt by every stock-grower stock-grower and wheat farmer, by the steel workers and coal miners and by labor everywhere. As a tax reducer, wage raiser and farm relief re-lief measure the present tariff law has accomplished much." A BILLION SAVED TO AMERICAN TAXPAYERS Congressman Guy U. Hardy, of Colorado, sends to the National Na-tional Republic official figures showing that during the last three years of the Underwood tariff prior to the enactment of the farmers farm-ers emergency tariff law, the total customs receipts of the United states were $713,633,640. During, the last three years' of the present tariff law 1923, 1924 and 1925 the customs receipts of the United States have aggregated $1,682,261,176. The ex- |