| Show national affairs written lor for the park record by FRANK P LITSCHERT in a recent editorial on the tariff and the farmer the st louis times points 0 out ut some come of the benefits the farmer Is receiving directly from the present protective tariff law and some of the danger spots in which he is apt to need additional help along this line during the next few years the citrus fruits of california and flordia are receiving a fair amount of protection at this time but the cherry grower the northern pacific fic coast are now feeling the effect of foreign competition and are going to ask for some Sm assistance istance florale Fl ordle end and southern california as the times points out are facing increasing competition from cuba and mexico in th the 0 markl marketing tang of tomatoes an and early garden cle n truck while in texas where the turkey industry Is a ma major jorone one the growers of this great american birds are in danger of a deluge of turkeys from south america in tact fact it Is said that prices have already declined and the cold storage plants are reporting a surplus the northern sections of the country where dairying Is a great industry now have protection but there are indications in the face of increasing imports that even more help from the tariff Is to be needed if our dairying states are to continue prosperous of course the deadly foreign competition Is due to the cheaper labor abroad I 1 10 0 aw here are some instances where the farmer Is vitally interested in the tariff and there are many others surely these fact sare are beough to cause tiny any farmer who has become enamored of the tree free trade argument ar about world markets to study the present economic situation slid and the trend of the times very carefully if the tamper loses or destroys the great home market marlc et in which he now sells nine tenths of his products the situation ho he will face then undoubted undoubtedly adly will be a great deal more serious allan ahan the crisis which he has gone through throng since the close of at the world war aw 0 1 I 41 incidentally it may be mentioned that the duties on imports into the united states made a new high record in the year 1926 the total amount of 0 revenue which the government received from imports imparts was which Is tle the I 1 greatest in fix the history of the government the total imports tor for 1926 were valued at this total of imports has only been exceeded once in the history ot of the country and that was in 1920 and 1920 was an exceptional year for the reason that we then imported pounds ot of sugar at thirteen cents centa a pound the heavy import trade ot of 1025 was exe exceeded ceded in 1820 by more than tour four per cent the figures ere eire taken from e a report recently issued by the united states chamber of 0 commerce e ap the greatest increases la in the importations were in rubber coffee newsprint wood pulp copper tin and petroleum in tact fact the imports in raw materials and semi finished products broke all records and ln d it t is a a noteworthy ot A w 0 rt b y f tact that r t 1 in n these abet ath these gr great e at g groups r 0 u p s m most 0 s t 0 ot t t the h imports p r came ame irom from continents other than europe A big per ot of our imports were from south america showing that foreign trade Is wido game 0 40 0 1 I 1 the tree free traders told us that the pre sent tariff law would reduce imports end and customs duties and therefore shrink our I 1 foreign trade and ruin the country imports imparts have increased rather than diminished and the revenue customs duties las year was the greatest on record our foreign trade Is healthy and tho the country is not cot ruined alter after all it Is result and not theory which counts |
