AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
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Mr. Kercaam. You do not take this democratic idea that my 
good friend Kincheloe is talking of that he was trying to convince 
vou about, that you want to see all the rest of the legs sawed off of 
the table? . 
Mr. WELLER. No, I do not, personally. We have some farmers 
that feel that that is the only way to get at it. Ve have no fight with 
labor, and we are not so jealous of the success of industry, because 
we are engaged in a kind of industry ourselves, because of this broad- 
acre method of farming that I am teiling you about. 
Mr. KercEAM. You said just a few moments ago that you thought 
possibly there was some misunderstanding and possibly a bit of 
ignorance among the farmers some years back, but as they have gone 
further along they have come to understand that the real idea is to 
put the farmer in the picture? 
Mr. WELLER. Four years ago it was more in the nature of feeling 
something was wrong. They realized that everything they were 
buying had gone up in price and that the exchange value of the bushels 
they produced had gone away down. 
Mr. KiNCHELOE. You do not think that the tariff on the manu- 
factured product that you and the other poor American farmers out 
there complain of has anything to do with *ne high price they are 
paying for it? 
Mr. WELLER. We do believe— 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. And not withstanding the precarious condition 
of your farmers out there you still believe that this protective tariff 
on such things as aluminum, steel, cotton goods, and woolen goods 
should not be lowered? 
Mr. WELLER. I did not say we believe that. 
Mr. KiNncaELOE. I understood you to say that in answer to 
Mr. Ketcham awhile ago. 
Mr. WELLER. Our answer was not critically indicative of that. 
We want to be brought up to the higher level. We realize that the 
tariff does make a difference in the price we pay for manufactured 
goods. 
Mr. Kinca 
products? 
Mr. WELLE: 
Mr. KINCHELOL. 
them? 
Mr. WELLER. I would not objet ++ it at all. 
Mr. KiNCHELOE. Are you not 1. vor of it? 
Mr. WELLER. My attitude on that is, we want to be brought 
up to the other fellow’s level. 
Mr. KinceELOE. Your idea, then, is that you know this high 
protective tariff is putting you fellows on the bum by reason of 
decreased purchasing power of the dollar, and the further reason 
that what they have to sell on the world’s market is not similarly 
protected. You realize they are starving, but you want to continue 
to vote the Republican ticket and continue to starve and advise these 
poor farmers to do that? 
Mr. WELLER. I want to say to you that the conditions are making 
lot of people think of the Democratic platform all right. 
Mr. KiNcHELOE. It is causing a whole lot of people in this country 
to think thay way. But the only time they do not do anything is on 
election davs. 
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