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Show Tariff Defender Of Our Prosperity It becomes increasingly evident that if the tariff bars were removed, or its rates greatly decreased, we would be 'projected into a period of industrial upheaval. Our American workers, with their high wages and good living conditions, would be forced to drop to the level of workmen in any country which happened to place a competing product in the American market. A pecular side to the situation is the belief that downward revision of tariff rates would effect farm reliefs, on the grounds that many farm necessities now carry more than their value in duty. What is not so evident, is that althou- I gh the farmer might save on a few commodities, he would be forced to compete with foreign products in open market, unprotected by the tariff, and his position would be much the same ar, that of the industrial worker. In spite of political theories and promises pro-mises the farmers and workers of A-! A-! mericai, representing our principal j buying power, would find that tariff dismembering would have dangerous i consequences. |