Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe: Werke und Schriften bis Anfang 1844

Werke und Schriften bis Anfang 1844 (1,2.1930)

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Author:: Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537; Engels, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118530380

Title:: Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe

Place of publication:: Frankfurt a.M.

Publisher:: Marx-Engels-Archiv

Year of publication:: 1927-

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Author:: Engels, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118530380; Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537

Title:: Werke und Schriften bis Anfang 1844

Volume count:: 1,2.1930

Place of publication:: Frankfurt a.M.

Publisher:: Marx-Engels-Archiv

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: LXXXII, 691 S.

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Title:: Zur Redaktionstätigkeit an der Rheinischen Zeitung. II. Der Zensor St. Paul über Marx. Ein Artikel der Mannheimer Abendzeitung über Marx

Collection:: Economics Books

166 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF they made it up in the West. And I saw in yesterday’s paper it was stated that the United States Steel Corporation may build factories in Canada. Those men have a chance to get around the way we do not. [ am not going to argue on the reduction of the tariff, but I am simply giving the psychology of the farmer and what I consider the practical way by which he can get partial practical tariff benefits. When the farmer found that a 42-cent tariff was not coming to him— they did not know how it was going to work—then some bright genius, I do not know who he was, said, ““ We have devised a way by which the farmer can get not the 42 cents which you say he is entitled to, but some figure between nothing and 42 cents, according to the size of his surplus.” And right before him every year is the visible evidence of what damage he is getting from overproduction, if you call it overproduction, and I can not get away from the fact that we have no overproduction. Good Lord! must we have hunger in order that people may live? Here is the practical way that that would work as I see it. Take the tariff on wheat, figuring 42 cents and 27 cents; that is, 15 cents equalization fee, and 200,000,000 bushels of export of the 800,000,000 bushel crop of wheat. Every bushel of wheat might go through the very same channels it goes through now, and the farmer would get approximately, under present conditions, 27 cents tariff. Is he entitled to it or is he not? Mr. Apkins. Let me interrupt you right there. I do not want to interfere with your statement, but here is a thing that I want to get in, and you are covering the ground, so that is about all I care to do. The question has been raised a good many times in this committee, asking the individual where there was, for instance, 18,000,000 bales of cotton or 900,000,000 bushels of wheat, how much the equalization fee would be—asking the witness to state that. Now, the agency that is carrying our so-called surplus at the present time, the speculator, for instance, he gets all the information from available sources as to the world crop conditions and domestic conditions, consumption and probable demand, before he makes his purchase. He keeps that picture in mind when he makes the purchase, and when he is feeding it back on the market. The point I wanted to raise is that no man coming before this committee—I do not care how good an expert he is—could make a guess on what the equalization fee would be, unless he had that picture before him; and I take it.that our board, if 1t is established—it is provided in the bill that it is to have the advantage of all public agencies and private agencies it may enlist to get that picture, before it declares the equalization fee, and with that picture in mind then they can make a guess. Mr. Caverno. Better than that, Mr. Adkins, if you will go over to the Department of Agriculture—and this is basic in my argument— you will find this, that they have developed formulas over there, with various factors in them, empirical factors, whereby for the last 25 years they could have calculated what the price was going to be, and Mr. Jardine has a bill based on scientific principles of price fore- gastr and they can come very close to that, and I should put a Under a Worsing tnt, Joy in regard to wheat, if it is possible. aot 49 co © 2 erican tariff system, which says that the farmer should . and he will get that instead of 15, 16, or 25 cents, if you

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