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Mr. WELLER. I would like to make a few remarks to you on that, 
Doctor. Just one farmer or a half-dozen farmers, a farming corpora- 
tion might become a reality, as we fear it may. Then they will see 
to it that they get a price, all right. They would then have that 
thing largely in their own control. But our farmers are scattered 
over eight or nine mid-west agricultural States that have a soil that 
does not require the usual artificial fertilizer. Largely that is our 
resource; it 1s our food that feeds this Nation. But we are scattered. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. Are you scattered any more than labor; are you? 
Mr. WELLER. The very nature of labor working and going through 
the same gate into a factory building helps them to get together and 
have an understanding. We are scattered over miles and miles of 
territory. 1 presume those mid-west States are larger than several 
European nations put together. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. You admit that the organization of labor is the 
thing that makes them have a good price more than the tariff? 
Mr. WELLER. Absolutely; and we have no ficht with them. 
Mr. KiNncHELOE. So you do not think the tariff does so much about 
preserving American standards of living, so far as labor is concerned? 
Mr. WELLER. So far as my personal investigation is concerned, I 
would say that labor got a small part of the tariff from duties. 
Mr. KincHELOE. How do you figure that? The highest-protected 
industries under the Fordney-McCumber tariff are the manufac- 
turers of woolen goods, cotton goods, and textiles, and yet the 
poorest-paid laborers in America work in those enterprises. How 
do vou figure that? 
Mr. WELLER. That is the thing we can not understand. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. As a Vepublican, you are still saying, “We do 
not want to touch thes tariff-protected ‘ndustries,” and I expect 
you will be out thers - -n~ ¢hat ¢- the poor starved farmers that 
have helped keep tn voo.d tor the MeNary-Haugen bill 
the last time. 
Mr. WELLER. I am mighty giad to hear you say that. 
Mr. KINCcHELOE. You are all right on this so long as you talk 
about the equalization fee. But when you go to touch the big 
industries of this country who are fostered under this tariff pro- 
mulgated by the Republican régime, then you are mighty tender- 
footed. Your Representatives, as Mr. Jones said, when they had 
an opportunity the first time they have had it in the seven years, 
who hollered louder and longer as the leaders of the farm bloc and 
for the agricultural country, and then when one of your own Senators 
came and by the aid of the Republican Progressive votes in the 
Senate passed a resolution that would give you some relief, what 
did the leaders of the farm bloc in the House do? They followed 
the leaders of the East; and my opinion is you are not going to get 
much relief as long as you follow these fellows on the Atlantic sea- 
oard. 
Mr. WELLER. But I think they disappointed a good many men 
in the West who undertook to study into that thing. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. You are not going to get anything for American 
agriculture without you arise and assert yourselves. You are not 
going to assert yourself by voting with those on the Atlantic seaboard. 
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