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current news item on the expected tariff changes after 

 the war should warn farmers to unionize so their executive 

 officers could with authority represent their demands before 

 the Tariff Commission. Quotations from it are as follows : 



"After the war, and there are some who think that this means this 

 year, a question of far-reaching importance by common consent is to be 

 readjustment of tariffs. It is very fortunate in this situation that 

 thanks largely to organized business men of the country, who insisted 

 that the tariff should be made a business and not a political question, 

 the government has already established a Tariff Commission, and this 

 body, with its employed experts, has been busy for nearly two years 

 compiling data that should be of incalculable value to Congress in deter- 

 mining what necessary duties are in a given industry. 



"Industries generally have shown a disposition to give the Tariff 

 Commission helpful co-operation. It will be fortunate for the country 

 if this spirit of mutual co-operation and helpfulness prevails generally, 

 for after the war, as never before, trade competition will be acute, and 

 the question of tariffs will be questions of business strictly, to be deter- 

 mined by facts." 



All unionized manufacturers of goods farmers buy will 

 have their officials before this Tariff Commission to advocate 

 and plead for high protective tariffs on importations of for- 

 eign-made goods to protect their monopoly of the home 

 markets. There is just as much justice and necessity for a 

 high protective tariff on farmers' products as on those he 

 has to buy, and they should all unionize to give them in- 

 fluence enough in our government to enforce it and thereby 

 secure a monopoly of the United States markets for their 

 products. Buying on a monopolized market and selling on 

 a free-trade market has bankrupted many of them, and will 

 many more. 



Wheat Producers Should Go Into Politics. 



Yes, wheat producers and producers of all other farm prod- 

 ucts should unionize and go into politics as all other classes 

 have done. Politics simply means advocating, supporting^ 

 voting for, lobbying for, and having enacted into law sucn 



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