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Show I Strong Tariff Held I Essential to Revival I Of Cattle Industry IKL I'AvSO. Texas. Jan. 12. A tariff duty on farm products at tb earliest ponsibJo date, Increased credits anU early adoption "f logltdallon now pending pend-ing In congrrss providing for ths ap-, ap-, inttnent of a commission to sdper-l-o the livestock industry wero urged Be necessary slops for the curly rehabilitation re-habilitation of tho entile growing Industry In-dustry by John B. Kcndrlck of Sher-; Sher-; idnn. Wyo., In n address before tho annual convention of th American National Livestock association hen I da) Kcndrlck is yrcaid nt of the ie-?oclation. ie-?oclation. i t si OF OEFftl SSION. The history of our livestock Industry Indus-try tho past year la unpleasant even' to recall, much less to relate," dc- dared Kcndrlck. "Wo had mot dl- ouragement a year ago. Av e have met1 ! disaster since- A generation of men : 'lias come and gone since any Indus- j try ha3 suffered such a succession of losses." Kcndrlck sketched the troubles of I . i he Industry, beginning with droucht j ondltlons In the outhv.eei for two or three years, an Increase In Meat I! Imports in 1920. ; decrease in meat J exports in tho Mnc period, and the' .-licence of markets for wool at any,' - I pride." Increased labor costs. 'thr doubling ; up of taxes." and Increased frelghl ' ' rutos "at the very time hen declin-ll declin-ll til I'M . 'ng prices on maity products of ilfv farm mode shipment of those product! prohibitive' wire assigned by Ken-' irlok as further cause for the present unfavorable condition of tho Industry lie estimated Uis't Increased freight. ' '-yardage and comml-slfir. charges, . . i mounted to from flft to one huu-dred huu-dred per cent during the last year. . i r SOc t HEAD. "'An extreme case In connection with' this situation," Ik said, is known in a shipment of sheep from Wyoming bl December. 1920, In which the cost Of movement, freight and. other charges involved ir the shipment andj ile of sheep amounted to $3,224.66,1 while the jrrora receipts from 'Hi meht were $3,878.: 1, leaving the net, amount received only 65J.4& ori slightly over "2 cents n head." Pointing out that, the longest bank! loan that can he ohtalned on livestock! Is six months, vl lo the process of production of cattle extends over a rind of three years at the least, Kcndrlck Kcn-drlck declared nofning would give greater impetus to tho production of livestock at this tiv than a change in our laws which would prove a sound, rational system of financing , that would extend o small producers loans in limited amounts POLITICIANS BLAMl l flo charged that the ''long drawn out controversy over the ratification of the peace treaty and th readjust-, ment of our foreign relations in Wash-lngton Wash-lngton and the r ultanl demorallsa-! tlon and even destruction of our trade relation-, stands In eloquent testimony, to the fact that the politician's In Washington bave been, like NTero, fid-. fid-. . tiling while Rome rde burning.' Among other addresses delivered at today's session was that of , T. I'ryor of San Antonio. Tevas Pryor dealt vigorously wiih tariff and other conditions-which he declar- ei adversely affected the cattle rals-l lug and shipping ladustry In his nd-i dross today. Il asserted that the' farm and ranch Industry Is "the very life and vitals" of America ABUSES 0t i MUFF The farming and livestock Interests arc suffering from competition with raw material from foreign countries imported duty tree, Mr Pr; or d( i lai - cd. "If they are forceil to do this, i . then poverty is their heritage the! producers are as much entitled to a tariff on the so-called raw material as i the manufacturers." he asserted "Vh should they be compelled to soil In a free market and buy In a protected one? It Ik unjust discrimination. discrim-ination. "We can never prosper lotitr tinder a system Of one-half free trade, one-half one-half protection, or She-half subsidized .i ml one-half taxed. I HEAP LABOR COMPJ TTTION. l r Pryor told of the competition with cheap labor and declared In Japan Ja-pan a man works for as little &1 IT cents a daj Ho aid rccentJb troln-loads troln-loads 61 Chinese had passed through El Paso en route to iub.i to work on th sugar plantations on a wage basis that meant bankrupte to American sugar producers if forced to compel" With them He said Australia and New Zealand and other western lountrles can pro-duce pro-duce beef at two or three cents a pound, iininn to chc.tpn,.M of land and Inborn while in this country it costs several time as much to produce bei f The same condition held rood as to cotton, he said. SO MILLIONAIRE FARMERS. The speaker described the cause of uneasiness In the livestbok industry as two-fold. First, the withdrawing of credit by money lenders In a large measure. Second, the unstable condl-tion condl-tion of the country in general and the fear of Importation Of meats Into this conn' ry free of duty In conclusion he said income tax records Indicated the country has 20.-000.000,00m 20.-000.000,00m acres and asked "who ever heard of an honest-to-tJod millionaire mil-lionaire farmer?" lie said most millionaires mil-lionaires made theb money from manufactures man-ufactures from raw materials produced produc-ed by the farmers hut said that while such a community of interest should produce a "fifty-fifty" profit for both producers and manufacturers, he was unable even to gin-j-s what per cent the farmer received m compared with what the manufacturers obtained for finished products no |