Show NEWS FROM THE republican PRESS BUREAU republican STATE COMMITTEE the assertion as frequently heard among democratic spellbinders spell binders that the farmer fanner is compelled under pro sent conditions to sell in a tree free market but to buy in a highly protected market would ty by a reasonable argument on the tariff it it were not pure unadulterated bunk senator reed smoot so expressed himself at a meeting of salt lake business men this week and presented facts about the tariff schedules to show just how bow the goods the tanner farmer buys and sell are affected the farmer said senator smoot buys plows lor for example headers harvesters re apers mowers drills and planters threshing machines wagons carts in the south he uses cotton gins they are all an on the freo free list so are cream separators up to 50 in value and so in fact act are agricultural implements of every description crip tion if he wants to build his bis brich cement logs and timber are on the free list so are the coal and tuela mil Petr petroleum lie he uses to heat beat his home so are chiq hl coffee and tea and similar products of the soil abich rs r S au are not grown tn in the unite united d states ills afta an and d sl shoes oes are purchased in fri fket open to foreign com f i without euty duty may in rort tree free of duty animals for breeden bror purposes and the alti toxin and macrine with which to protect them from Infect tidus us klis als eases similarly with sheep dip sulphur tar and turpentine and with the sulphate of arsenic used in spraying mixtures it he buys american made harness saddles horse pads pada barb wire posts pickets palings halings bind ertwine leather gloves and the like it is because the american made product lie Is better or cheaper or both the foreign made article comes in tree free of duty and he may import with cut a cent of duty guano phosphates gypsum nitrate of potash and all kinds hinds of fertilizers true it if he buys wool clothing he may have to pay 1 duty 0 on n t the he wool in a suit but that is the dollar that protects him as a producer of wool certainly the facts do not appear to bear out the assertion that the farmer must buy in a protected market and the assertion that he must sell in a tree free market is equally without a foundation loun dation the tact fact Is that all the tanners farmers products have been given the highest protective rates in the present schedules that were ever recorded in any tariff law furthermore there is no rate on a any ny product of the farm that thai was not asked tor for by the representative of the great tanners farmers organization ot of this country the democratic party in the east la is making a big todo to do about the rate on sugar senator walsh ot of massachusetts achu tor for example Is making that rate the burden of his campaign for or ne election january 24 1921 P tho the massachusetts senator introduced S K R 2227 entitled a bill to a mend the tariff act ot of 1922 by placing sugar on the free list two years ago senator walsh was sent to utah to help re reelect elect senator W H king I 1 dont think the democrats ot of atah utah will have senator walsh ta j the utah voters during this campaign I 1 1 in the last democratic tariff bill wool was placed on the f tree ree list that la Is what they intend to do again it they are successful in this campaign 1921 1924 la Is a republican year |