Show TARIFF F STILL DEPORT IMPORTANT ANT altho although ugh we hear a great deal nowadays about international issues of many varieties 1 actively little is being said on cap capitol I 1 hill in washington about the tariff yet that issue remains as is vital as ever as a great many 1 americans realize i many manufacturers and labor leaders representing industries which have been protected by the smoot hawley tariff realize that the industries will go out of business if the tariff is removed at present there are few free traders in america but two schools of thought on the tariff one of them believes that we ought to reduce our tariffs on certain commodities in the interest of foreign trade they claim that if we import more goods the people in alien nations will take more of our produce and some american industries including farming will vall be bene fitted the other group believes that lowering our tariff on protected articles below the point of easy importation will ruin the markets mark ets of our farmers a great deal more than these will be helped by any markets secured abroad they point out that american workers are the best fed and best paid in the world and that the rendering jobless of one american skilled worker cuts off more demand for goods than is created by giving jobs to a half dozen poorly paid european or asiatic workers that the weight of the argue ment seems to be decidedly with them is true especially in view i of the fact that the low tariff ad advocates vo in america have so curtailed american farm production in certain crops that european african and asiatic farmers are being stimulated to raise more with the result that there is a smaller and not a larger market for american farm produce abroad that the argument of the pro has great weight is evidenced by the fact that congress has failed to alter the smoot hawley rates in the 1932 campaign the smoot hawley tariff was denounced from one end of the country to the other by the opposition as an iniquity the opposition has now become the majority 1 party and an overwhelming I 1 majority party in congress yet the smoot hawley tariff remains untouched and unscathed theres a reason |