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speech of Congressman 0. B. Bartness of North 

 Dakota: 



"An analysis of the higher price received by the 

 farmer on such of his products as are protected by 

 the tariff reveals that the protection brings him a 

 total additional sum of around $125,000,000. An- 

 alyzing further we find that the additional sum paid 

 by the farmer for agricultural products of other 

 countries totals $95,000,000. Thus his gain is $30,- 

 000,000, or $1 for each man, woman, and child con- 

 nected with agriculture. A still further analysis 

 reveals that because of the tariff the farmer pays 

 $150,000,000 extra on manufactured steel products 

 alone, or the equivalent of $5 for each man, woman, 

 and child. The extra cost to the farmer on other 

 manufactured goods which he purchases will total 

 even more. So under the present tariff the farmer 

 makes a net gain of $1 on the higher price for agri- 

 cultural products and pays ten times that to main- 

 tain the higher- than- world price on manufactured 

 goods which he buys. 



"Such disparity would not of itself be the serious 

 matter it has been since the war if the depression 

 of Europe had not found a vulnerable point or means 

 of attack through our export products. That de- 

 pression would at once disappear if our statesmen 

 would devise a way to protect our home market 

 price on the agricultural products which are now 

 in our export class." 8 



8 The Congressional Record, Vol. 67, No. 132 for May 18, 1926. 



