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ree Trade and the Farmer
We Lave come to the time when home
consumption of farm products has practi
cally overtaken production.
AVe are making large importations of
farm products, grown on the cheap land
and by the very cheap labor of foreign
countries.
During the past year we imported many
millions of bushels of corn from the Argen
tine. This corn was offered at from ten to
forty cents per bushel less than the price
prevailing for our own corn, and, of course,
the price of our corn dropped rapidly. This
Argentine corn competition will become
more severe right iflong. In good years Ar
gentina produces hundreds of millions of
bushels of .corn for export. It is grown
on cheap land and by the cheapest of cheap
f arm labor. The freight rates from the Ar
gentine to our eastern coast are lower than
the freight rates from the central west to
our eastern coast. AVe cannot compete with
the Argentine corn farmer and maintain
our American standard of living on the
fann.
We must be protected
Our live stock industry is confronted with
the same peril. Argentina and other South
American, countries are large meat produc
ers. Our big packing companies have
built big packing houses down there. A
government officer under the present Dem
ocratic administration indicated that the
government is fixng up refrigerator ships
to bring in chilled beef from the Argentine
and thus ' ' reduce the cost of living. ' ' And
this at a time when the beef producers of
the United States have been losing as much
as $75 per head on the steers they have fat
tened! Our importations of vegetable oil3 have
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increased alarmingly. During the past
year we imported cocoanut oil, copra, and .
soy bean oil in an amount equal. to more
than one-third of our annual lard produc
tion. These oils are used as substitutes for
lard and butter. AVhat will happen to our
hog industry and our daily industry if this
sort of thing is permitted to go on!
During the past year we imported more
than twice the normal amount of wool. You
know what happened to the price. In July,
1920, wool was 43 per cent lower" in price
than in July, 1919, while clothing was 12.4
per cent higher. Because of this foreign
competition, wool is selling now when it
can be sold at all for far less than the cost
of production, and our wool growers have
boon obliged to form a pool and borrow
money at high interest rates to hold the
wool in the hope that they may be able to
avoid ruin.
The people lose millions
Heavy importations of frozen New Zea
land mutton and of foreign meats and hides
during the past six months have caused
American meat producers the loss of mil
lions of dollars.
The fruit industry of California is suffer
ing severly. It is almost ruined.
Our great dairy industry is threatened.
What are we going to do?
The Democratic party says NOTHING.
The Democratic national platform reaf
firms its traditional policy of a tariff for
revenue only. That means that the Ameri
can market will continue wide open to the
fanners of foreign countries who live on
cheap land, under pioneer conditions, who
employ the cheapest labor, and who, since
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shipping has been resumed, are in position
to compete with our farmers.
The Democratic attitude
The Democrats don't care what happens
to the fanners of the United States. They
never have cared. They think it is the
duty of the American farmer to produce to
the limit and not "bother his head about
the cost of production," as a prominent
Democrat official said during the war.
The American .fanner "was urged to pro
duce grains and meats to the limit. He
was assured that he would get a fair price
for everything he could grow. But after
all their promises to the farmers the Dem
ocrats have systematically encouraged
these foreign importations of grains and
meats and vegetable oils and wool for the
express purpose of beating down prices
of our home-grown products.
After all their promises the Democrats
have conducted repeated price drives to
beat down prices of American farm pro
ducts. And meanwhile the prices of food
stuffs to the consumer were permitted to
advance unchecked.
And now the Democrats propose to con
tinue their betrayal of the American farm
er by throwing our home market open to
the farmers of foreign countries who have
much cheaper land and cheaper labor and
a far lower standard of living.
The Republican way
The Republicans have a different answer
for this problem,. They promised in their
national platform: "Revision of the tariff
as necessary for the preservation of a home
market for American labor, AGRICUL
TURE, and industries. "
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Republican President
Stanfield's Platform In Brief
Preserve American ideals and constitutional government.
Maintain law and order; protect our industries and institutions.
Preserve the peace of the world by an international association based upon interna
tional justice and law.
Give labor and capital equality of treatment. Let them work together for a mutual
profit and common purpose. Foster harmonious relations between employer
and employee.
Abolish toll3 on American coastwise shipping through the Panama canal.
Unqualifiedly favor the Soldiers' and Sailors' Bonus Bill as passed the House of Rep
resentatives and believe it should be passed by the Senate as soon as convened,
Committee
And AV arren G. Harding, the Republican . 5
candidate for president, iu his great speech EE
on agriculture, said: EE
"The fanner must be protected from un- 5
fair competition, from those countries ES
where agriculture is still being exploited ES
and where the standards of living on the ES
farm are lower than here. We have asked EE
for higher American standards. Let us EE
maintain them. So long as Amer- ES
ica can produce the food we need, I am in
favor of buying from America first."
A business proposition 1
We have come to the most critical per- jJ
od in the history of American agriculture. EE
A mistake now cannot be repaired,. You EE
cannot afford to make that mistake. You EE
cannot afford it on your own account. You ES
can not afford it for the sake of those fine EE
boys and girls who soon must take your- 5
places on the farm. ES
A vote for the Republican ticket this
year is a vote in favor of a sound national
agricultural policy, that will protect our
farmers against unfair foreign competition.
That will insure them, as Warren G. Hard- 5
ing said recently: "A fair return on in- 5
vested capital, a fair wage for the labot EE
which goes into the crops, and enough in ES
addition to enable the farmer to maintain EE
the fertility of his soil and insure against ES
natural hazards. Prices which ES
will insure to the farmer and his family ES
both financial rewards and educational, so- EE
cial and religious living conditions fairly j
comparable with those offered by the cities. EE
It doesn't matter whether you have been 5
a Democrat or a Republican in times past.
Every man and woman interested in the ES
farm will vote the Republican ticket this EE
year. EE
H. N. STANFIRLD
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