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Show FOOLING the FARMER on TARIFF Some of the cleverest brains inside ; and outside the United States are ir. the employ of interests who have millions mil-lions to gain by destroying American i prosperity by breaking down its wrongest bulwark the protective .ariff." These bright minds evolve some smart and dangei eous Ideas in the service of men who pay them. One of the most insidious of these is Sliding expression in the widespread campaign under way to create dis-atisfaction dis-atisfaction among the farmers of the country with the protective tantt s-item s-item 'under which this country has :rown to be the most prosperous and owerful in the world. "Smash the tariff" is the cry set up by the agents of thoes who can se" little profit'; for themselves in flooring floori-ng the American market with thn loducts of cheap foreign labor if rnly this barrier can be broken down. "Duties on imported goods do not ielp the farmer," they say, "because his surplus products are exported." 3ut they do not refer to the fact that he domestic market is far more important im-portant to the farmer than the export "ield. taking ten dollars worth of his products for every dollar's worth hat goes abroad, and that if this home market is destroyed the farmei ill be a hundred times worse off han he is today. I Presulent Co-olidge .gave expression expres-sion to this idea in concise terms in 'lis speech before the annaial conven-ion conven-ion of the American Farm Bureau federation at Chicago last month .v'nen he said: "Prosperity in our industries is of nore value to the farmer than the hole export market for foodstuffs. Protection has contributed in our -ountry to making employment olentiful with the highest wages and standards of living in the world, which is of inestimable benifit to both our agricultural and industrial jopulation." When it comes to an agricultural 'ommodity like sugar, which actully .; imported m huge quantities, the nti-tariff agitators take a different rck. They say to the farmer, "It is tue 'that there is an import duty on our product, 'but you do not get the enef it of it. It is 'all gobbled up by '.he sugar factories." The troubie with this argument is that it simplv s not true and the figures are on ecord to prove its falsity. The United States Tariff Com-uis'jion Com-uis'jion three years ago made an ex-ensive ex-ensive study of the co-st of producing iy;ar in this country and in Cuba in :rder to decide weather the tariff on tugar could be lowered. This study diowed that the price received by the ; -uban cane grower in 1922 for the mgar in thecane he delivered to the ail was 1.16 cents a pound. In the lame year the price paid to American "armers for sugar in their beets was 1.37-cents a pound. The tariff on Cuban sugar is 1.76 cents a pound so hat the American sugar beet grower eceived the full benefit of the tariff igainst the cheaply made sugar of :he tropics and 45 cents a hundred aounds besides. If he had had to ake the same price an the Cuban rower f v r the sircar he delivered to .be factory he would have received ly $2.96 a ton for his beets, a price hat would have Ijeen absolutely ruinous. j It is a significant fact that the -met who are active in trying to convince A-merican beet growers that the tariff ! n foreign grown sugar is of no ust to them are the paid agents of the Wall Street capitalists who have millions invested in foreign sugar '"Perti.es. 0f co,u,.,e their solicitude or the American farmer is just bemuse be-muse they love him so and not be-ause be-ause there is anything in it for them t the tariff is removed. At the same time it happens tha he importers of Cuban su(gar paid -o 'G Unitcd Ste, Treasury last vea T $13;000'00 .ir d es f hey could have put thi0 sum into err pockets it Svould have been e- "Jsh to Pay 10 per cent on the Hi" "00,000,000 of wa.l Street e "vested in Cuban sugar pro , t " d dividends were scarce aj lie afflng compan's S Speaking to the stockholders of ;he ,"1 " C-P-tio he la gest sugar company in Cuba their meeting earlv th; d,. -, cany this month President W E OtHlvto ir,- to th -'lvle said, accord- p I L ? PreSS rePrts the n that removal of the tariff 0f TC "pnts a priced on Cho G. --ted into the Uni?eTsntarar ncrease -he profts " f.tatM ooo.ono ;;V : companv nr-i.vie hr Evidently Mr i ie believes that the r 1 - - a positior;: z:vmr- Thursday M,;!,Pn I-arsen read the nlav "r F;l,re''l e Arthur sz:;ze I'zi ttrn" was served for f nI.V""'- |