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Show SLACK BUSES IS I RESULT OF TARIFF, j LEGISLM Salt Lake, April 15. That the new f tariff laws give no protection to the farmers of the United States and that f because the farmers are injured, busl- ness m general all over tho country i is at a standstill, Is the helief of Eu- gone H. Grubb, famous agricultural I expert, specialist in the raising of I potatoes, author of "The Potato" and farm expert of the New York Central. Cen-tral. Mr. Grubb left yesterday after- noon for his ranoh at Carbondale, Colo., after having spent two days In Salt Lake on his way home from the coast. jj Although decrying the general busi- II ness conditions In the country and i? declaring that the lack of protection VI and the present administration's attl- 1 tude will ruin American farmers, Mr. j Grubb had only words of praise for I Salt Lake and this city's industrial I and business conditions, i The principal object of Mr. Grubb's f short stop in the city was to confer t with officials of the National Copper ,' bank in regard to their boys' potato growing contest. Ho says that he i has discussed the present business f-conditions f-conditions of the country with every i railroad president and big business man in the country during the last ji few months, and that all are agreed i that business is stagnated and there f are more unemployed than ever he- j; fore. He nscrlbes these conditions all to free trade, and points out that 1; injury to the farmer means injury to the railroads, smelters and every ; other line of industry which keeps i up the pay rolls. Mr. Grubb is especially bitter f against the provisions of the revised tariff law which enables foreign coun- tries to send butter, meat and corn , into tho United States and undersell ! the farmers of this country. He says i that the importation of New Zealand : hntter was responsible for a 5 cent ' reduction on the price of each pound. i, He thinks the benefit of this decrease to the consumers Is minimized by the I injury to the butter producers here. f He also says that Argentine corn and I beef is working a hardship on the 1 farmers of the middle west. f |