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Show HOW SHOULD THE AMERICAN FARMER I VOTE THIS YEAR? , j During the ten months of the fiscal year 1913,( under the republican protective tariff there was imported Into this country meat and dairy products prod-ucts to the volue of $12,000,000. The bulk of this was foreign cheeses. Seven of the ten months ended April, 1914, were under the democratic demo-cratic "tariff for less than revenue law," with most of these products on the free list, and for this ten months period foreign competitors sent meat and dairy products into the American mar-1 ket to the value of $28,000,000, the bulk of theml being meats. Nine of the ten months ended April, 1915, were under European war condl-l tions. Notwithstanding this, our imports ofj these products rcachedHhc astonishing figure of' $38,000,000, an increase of 217 per cent over the 191!t period. Argentine meats and Canadian milk and cream accounted for the larger part of these imports. About this time the demands of the belligerents for Argentine meats became heavier, and her trade in these products veered toward Europe, as did much of that from Canada. Can-ada. For the ten months ended April, 1910, our imports of Argcntino meats were just 50 per cent of what they were during the 1914 period, and our total imports of meat and dairy products prod-ucts were $21,000,000. The principle after the, war problem which Argentina will have to meet' is how to get rid of her vast surplus of farmj products, the production of which, during the past two years has been so wonderfully increased. increas-ed. With n democratic freo trade law on the statute books, the United States is the logical market for these products and that spells disaster dis-aster to the American farmer. With n republican republi-can tariff law on the statute booku American farm products will be protected. Moreover, every cent of duty that Argentina pays to enter these farm products in our market will go into the federal treasury as revenue, and that means n lessening of the burden of internal taxation on . the American farmer. |