576 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. SEXAUER. You mean making the tariff effective? 
The CuairmAN. I mean all protective laws. 
Mr. SEXAUER. Speaking of that in lump sum, I would say that 
agriculture absolutely has to have the same type of protection that 
other industry has if it is going to exist under costs that are created 
by that other legislation. It is absolutely essential; we can not exist 
without it. 
The CuatrMAN. Then if it were found that you were not getting 
the benefit of these protective laws, you would be in favor of operating 
50 as to get that benefit? 
Mr. SEXAUER. Something would have to be done to give that 
industry the same beneficial results. 
The CrairMAN. As I understand it, you are getting the benefit 
of these laws now, and you are satisfied? 
Mr. SEXAUER. That is right. 
The Cuairman. And if the others engaged in agricultural pursuits 
are not getting those advantages you would be willing for them to 
have that advantage? 
Mr. SexavEeR. Right. There seems to have been a question, 
Mr. Chairman, as to whether we wish or do not wish to pay our 
share toward the maintenance of whatever legislation there may 
be. It is my understanding—and if I am wrong I wish some one 
would correct me—that this equalization fee or tax or whatever you 
wish to call it is to be applied only on those commodities on which 
the board is operating. 
The CuAIRMAN. Yes; that is generally understood as it applies to 
the equalization fee plan. I take it the question had reference to the 
debenture plan and others where the losses would come out of the 
Public Treasury. 
Mr. SeExauer. And that, for instance, when they are operating on 
wheat that there will be no equalization fee against corn or cotton; 
that when they are operating on cotton alone there will be no equal- 
ization fee on wheat or corn. So that I fail to see just where the criti- 
cism arises of the dairy organization which says that at the present 
time they do not believe it is necessary to operate on dairy products, 
or that they should be criticized or blamed for or have it said about 
them that they wish to put a burden on some one else and not assume 
it themselves. 
Mr. KincHELOE. You are here advocating this bill, are you not? 
Mr. SExavuer. Right. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. You do not think it will be ever necessary to 
declare an operating period on dairy products, according to what you 
have said; and you further concede that the only fellow who will pay 
the equalization fee will be the raisers of that commodity upon 
which there has been an operating period declared? 
Mr. SEXAUER. Yes. 
Mr. KincHELOE. Getting back to your original statement, that 
the reason you want that done is because you do not want those 
people to quit their present vocations and produce certain commodi- 
ties that come in competition with you? 
Mr. SEXAUER. Yes. 
Mr. KincHELOE. Oh, in other words, your position, in the last 
analysis, is that “as long as we do not have to pay the equalization 
fee and as long as we do not think it will ever be necessary for us to