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Show SMOOT TELLS MORONI I RALLY OF FARM AID Senator Reviews Republican Republi-can Efforts to Advance Agriculture "For the first time iri trie history of the United- States, agriculture was put on a parity with industry, so far as tariff protection is concerned, con-cerned, by the Republican tariff revisions of 1922 and 1930." This was the declaration of Senator Reed Smoot at a Republican Republi-can rally at Moroni Monday night. Continuing, he said: "The farm bureau's analysis of the Smoot-Hawley Smoot-Hawley act shows that industrid.1 rates were increased one-seventh over the 1922 level, while agricultural agricul-tural rates were increased more than one-half. Practically all the commodities for which the farmers farm-ers asked duties were given protection." pro-tection." Senator Smoot said that these "tariff benefits have been given the farmer by the Republican party over the violent protests of the Democratic party." Charges Misrepresentation "I don't recaU a single tariff speech by a Democrat during this campaign that has not been packed pack-ed with misrepresentation and falsehoods," he continued. "Our opponents realize that if they re cognize ine i acts ana aemonstras-ed aemonstras-ed truths, their theories will not have a leg to stand on. So they pretend that the Smoot-Hawley act was an unprecedented boost of industrial duties. The bipartisan biparti-san tariff commission found that 94 per cent of all the increases In the Smoot-Hawley act were made on products of agricultural origin. "The fanatical efforts of the Democratic party to discredit this law are merely an attempt to cover cov-er up their own betrayal of the farmer to the peasants of foreign countries. TJr?es Continued Protection "The future welfare of the state depends upon the maintenance of protective tariff on sugar beets, lead, coal and other mining and agricultural products. The Democratic Demo-cratic policy of lower tariffs can lead to only one result, whether It is applied to the farmer or to the working man, and that is a lower standard of living. "It would be utterly impossible to maintain our standard of living in this state if the farmers and working men of this nation should give the Democratic party an opportunity to whittle down the existing protective duties. "It is true that agriculture is prostrate. But we have laid the foundation of recovery. The Republican Re-publican party is doing everything within its power to help the farmer farm-er pull out of the mire onto sound and substantial ground." |