Agricultural relief: Export debenture plan

Export debenture plan (Pt. 5)

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934671

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232129

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Title:: Export debenture plan

Volume count:: Pt. 5

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 299 - 427

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. Tom Connally, representative in congress from the State of Texas

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF I take pleasure in presenting Mr. Albert S. Goss, master of the Washington State Grange and member of the executive committee »f the National Grange. STATEMENT OF ALBERT S. GOSS, MASTER WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE AND MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, NATIONAL GRANGE. SEATTLE. WASH. Mr. Goss. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, as Mr. Ketcham says, I come from the State of Washington. Mr. Taber told you yesterday something of the attitude of the grange. I can tell you of the attitude of the granges on the Pacific coast, where we are very strong in proportion to the number of farmers we have. Washington, Oregon, and Idaho Granges have indorsed this meas- ure practically by unanimous vote. I am not advised of the action of the California State Grange, since it met just prior to our national convention. But the chairman of the legislative committee of the California State Grange has attended our national convention and has been in Washington since, and has indorsed this program. So we feel that we can speak fairly accurately of the standing of the grange members and of the farmers on the Pacific coast. Mr. Taber pointed out that we did not claim this bill to be a cure- all by any means. It attacks just one phase of the question. We think that it is a sound solution for that phase of the question. There are other problems of agriculture. There are problems of transportation; there are problems of taxation; there are problems of distribution, which no bill can handle. We recognize that fully. But we fell in this measure that we hit at the fundamental cause of low prices, and in the interest of clear thinking I am going to ask you to review with me the trend of our agricultural development for the last hundred years or so. It is one hundred and thirty-odd years ago when Alexander Hamilton, making his report on manufactures to President Washing- ton, expressed this principle—I can not quote, will not attempt to quote, it in his language; but in just plain English it was that if we pursue a policy of protection by means of a protective tariff and other protective legislation, that the costs of our standards of living would all be raised and the costs of agricultural production would be raised, and that a well-rounded policy of protection should contemplate the protection of agriculture as well, with a system of export bounties, which he outlined. A speaker who will follow me will go into that more fully. I wanted to call your attention to the trend that agriculture took from that time on. Congress adopted the protective-tarift policy. It did not adopt the ther half of the tariff policy, the protection to agriculture; and it so happened that agriculture did not need it at that time; for shortly after that our population broke over the mountains down into the Ohio and the Mississippi Valleys, and there they found the most fertile farm lands in all the world, just ready to be plowed out, virgin soil; and under those conditions they produced the most bountiful crops ever produced in the history of the world at costs lower than any other place in the world, because of the virgin soil and just the 2onditions under which the crops were raised, and agriculture did

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