Show Tariff Benefits Farmer Farmei Is Claim The assertion so frequently heard among Democrat spellbinders spellbind spellbind- ers that the farmer is compelled under pres present nt conditions to soil soli in in a free market but to buy in n a h hI I highly protected 1 market would bea be bea I a reasonable argument on the tariff tariff tariff tar tar- iff if it were not pure unadulterated unadulterated unadulterated bunk Senator Reed Smoot so express expressed d himself at a meeting of or Salt Lake Business men this week and presented facts about the tariff schedules to show Just how tin tilt goods the farmer buys and sells are arc affected The farmer said sad Senator Smoot buys buya plows for example and harrows harrows har liar rows tooth and disc They are on the free list He uses 1 es headers harvesters reapers mowers drills driBs and planters threshing machines wagons carts In the tho south he uses cotton gins They are arc all on I the tho free list So are arc cream separators separators I tors up to 50 5 0 in value and so In In fact are are arc agricultural implements of or ever every description If he lie wants to build his brick cement logs and timber are on the free list So are the coal and the fuels and petroleum he uses to heat hl his hid home So are his coffee corree and tea and similar products of the soil which are not grown in the United States His boots and shoes are purchased in a a. market open to foreign competition without duty lIe He ma may import free of oC duty animals animals animals an an- for breeding purposes and the toxin anti-toxin and vaccines with which to protect them theta from infectious dis dis- eases Similarly with sulphur tar and turpentine and anel L 11 II A. A with used W ALU the LU sulphate of Ul UI iU arsenic in spraying mixtures I If U he ho buys made American-made harnesses harnesses harnesses har har- nesses saddles saddler horse pads barb wire posts pickets paling paUn binder twine leather gloves and the like it is because the American- American made product is better or cheaper cheape or both The Tho foreign made article comes in free of duty and he lie may import without a cent of duty guano phosphates gypsum nitrate of potash and all kinds of fertilizers True if he lie buys wool clothing he may have havo to pay duty on the wool in a n suit Bult But that is the dollar that protects him hire as a producer of wool Certainly the tho facts do O not appear all- all pear to bear out the assertion that the farmer must bu buy in a protected assertion that ho tH market and antI the tho must sell seU In a free market marlet Is la equally I I without a foundation The fact is that all the tho farmers' farmers products have been given the highest protective protective tive rates in the tho present schedules that were ever recorded in any tariff tar tar- iff if law Furthermore there thoro is no rate on an any product of or the llio farm that was not askel for by the representatives rep rep- of tho the great farmers' farmers organization of tho the country The liThe Democratic party In the j I I East is making a bi big to to do about the rate on sugar Senator Walsh l 1 of Massachusetts for example I n Is making that rate the burden of oC ht his campaign for re January 24 1924 the Massachusetts senator introduced S. S R R. R entitled a n but bill butto to amend the Tariff Act of 1922 by I I placing sugar on the free list Two years earR ago Senator Walsh i iwas I I was was' sent to Utah to help elect re-elect elect re I Senator W. W H. H King I 1 dont don't ont think II I I I the Democrats of Utah liU havo j I t I Senator Walsh out instructing the I Utah voters during this campaign I I J 1 In the tho last Democratic tariff I I I j I I I 1 I II bill bm wool was vas placed d on tb the tho fret free list That is what th they Y intend isdo todo to is do again If it they are s successful in ill inI this campaign 4 1921 is a a. Republican year |