Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934884

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 6

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 429 - 520

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 465 Mr. Caverno. Oh, just to bring them together, is what I was referring to there. I did not have that feature that you mention in mind at all. Mr. AsweLL. You do believe that, do you not? Mr. CaveErNo. A tax to decrease production? No, I do not know that I do. Mr. Fort. Not as applied to oil? Mr. CaveErNo. I do not know. I just simply brought that up to show how inevitably these big combinations, which would be sup- posed to protect themselves are coming to need the same kind of help which we unorganized farmers have, that is all. Mr. Fort. When you get to the actual workings of the bill, will you tell how it is going to accomplish the purpose? Mr. Caverno. I will. But I want to say this, that anybody who has supported the Republican Party and the protective tariff all his life as a farmer and found himself in difficulties would naturally think of the tariff as a refuge; and I do not think the remedy is in the tariff. I think this disparity would be approximately the same no matter where the tariff duties in this country were levied. We are not simply strangled by the tariff, we are strangled by our own help- lessness. But I do say this, just as soon as the western farmer who had always supported the system found himself pinched his natural inclination was to think of the tariff; and they did not want to abolish the tariff, but to get under it, a protection for all. And I mention this simply because as a cotton man I had to meet that situation when I came down South. These Northern men were clamoring to get under the tariff. We could not get under the tariff. They told the farmer they would give him a tariff on wheat—we will just use wheat as an illustration. It did not work—a lot of farmers thought it would work—and then they said, “We will raise the tariff on wheat,” and they did raise the tariff on wheat to a point where it was 42 cents a bushel. That was done by the Tariff Com- mission, and was supposed to represent the difference under the American tariff system of the cost of production abroad and in this country. And let me remind you gentlemen that that difference is not only what the farmer is supposed to get, but what in justice the consumer is supposed to pay. Is not that so? And that has always been lost sight of here and has not been brought out as the other side, that the people would revolt. In justice they should pay that, be- cause it 1s only putting the farmer on the level with them, and I believe the American people are willing to do that. Mr. WiLniams. Mr. Caverno, I do not know any one is claiming that the tariff is effectual in the matter of price of products abroad: it is in the American market? Mr. Caverno. Exactly. Mr. WiLLiams. It operates as to agriculture exactly the same as it does as to manufactured articles, providing the producers of agri- culture could organize, control their production and effectively man- age the sales end of it? Mr. CaverNo. I wish I had not been quite so generous giving up my time. Here is a report by Judge Gary of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, and the last report he made, in which he shows in the export business they had a very small return on the Atlantic seaboard. but

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