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Show , gARMEIl V1H1V.SAWCD According to figures of tlinjdcpartment of agriculture ag-riculture monthly wages on tho farm last year Tor the country ai a whole, averaged $C4',05, 'compared with $27. CO In 1910. Pay labor at.hiirvest tlmo last icar averaged- J4.3C and at other than harvest tlmo $3.59. Ten years ago tho wages w,ere $1.82 and $1.3C respectively. In 1910 we Imported foodstuffs food-stuffs to the value of $3457000,000 under a protective protec-tive tariff law. In 1920 Imports of'toodstuffs totaled about $1,876,000,000 with tho Wilson-Underwood free trade law in operation. Tho farmer was paying twoand one half times the wages In 1920 that ho was In 1910, and was experiencing more than fire times ' tho competition in 1920 that ho niotln 1910. This lu expressing It In money which had a' purchasing power abroad voBtly goater than it did In 1910. The farmers of tho country received sixteen billion dollars for their 1919 products and about ten billion ' for thoso of 1920, n loss of six1 billion dollars. Does nnjono wonder why the farmer wants nncmergency tariff law and tho assurance ot protection to his products? pro-ducts? And has anyone discovered tnat it costs less no provide for his table under Democratic free trade? fa fa fa |