242 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF * Mr. WELLER. I am inclined to think that is mighty good advice to the people of the mid-west. Mr. Mences. I would like to ask you a question. These demo- crats are protectionists as long as it is to their interests to be pro- tectionists. Mr. WELLER. That is my idea. I was down South in the cotton fields at one time—— Mr. KinceeLok. They will say we are free traders; and yet the Democratic Party was never for free trade. Mr. MenGEs. I never called you that. Mr. KincueELOE. I say, I didn’t mean you did. Mr. MENGEs. You said that the tariff on wheat is a tariff for the benefit of the millers, if I understand you? Mr. WELLER. No; I didn’t say that. But I would not object to that statement, particularly. Mr. KincHELOE. You said, in answer to my question, that it benefited the millers more than the farmers? Mr. WELLER. I say it benefited the millers more than the farmers. I have never been quite far enough into that subject, but my belief s that Je la barf for the benefit of the miller and does the farmer no at I can find out. Mr. MeNces. What I would like to know is what amendment to the tariff act you would suggest that would remedy just that very thing that you have mentioned? Mr. WELLER. So far as spring wheat is concerned, it would do it some good, if there were a particular tariff on spring wheat—high protein content wheat. I know of no more reason why the miller should be allowed to grind up Canadian wheat in the United States than the Ford Motor Co. should be able to import Belgian steel and make it into automobiles to reexport them. It would certainly d Ford some good in that case to be allowed to do that. ten vil certain y is enabled to ignore our spring wheat crop entirely. He ould have to use a lot of that spring wheat in his four mixtures, and we would have a monopoly on that largely if we ever asse ted selves; Jha is, iS Auer spring wheat growers. ne oH r. MENGES. e tariff as it stan it 1 such a way that it would specify SY ou CO aren on saga iz oy the benefits of protection? ypes of Whe ’ Mr. WELLER. The very types of w would specify them. We aro fortis 1 renin —~ Tod ot , wheat up there, and if Canadian wheat were not i di f Be of duty under the milling-in-bond syst b bo nel would. ze some of that tariff. But to say I Sols pecit shy w we would get Mr. Mexces. If it was not allowed fo cor in i arm ond ha come in in bond and be j ) r flour made of soft wheat sent back in pl f that? | NE {Sri {think that is one of the abuses of the inet ’ the tariff then? ou think you would enjoy some of the benefits of Mr. WeLL : : pn ER. If T understand you, I think we would get some of Mr. MEexGEs. ; 7 : The high orate wre been studying that side of the question. country in Jerse 1 understand it, is imported into this : ge quantities, and the fl i is that Tight? That the fons th ie flour made out of it stays here; ur that is made out of the soft wheat from