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industrial worker, who eats white 'bread three times 

 a day, for the European laborer, who eats it not at 

 all, he can take a long step in that direction by 

 assisting the enemies of protective tariff system tear 

 down the tariff walls. 



"Any time the American farmer desires to buy all 

 of his manufactured goods from foreign producers 

 because he can get them for less money, he can 

 realize his desire by voting to repeal the protective 

 tariff now in force and effect. But when he does so, 

 he not only throws his best customer out of work 

 but he enables all American consumers to purchase 

 the cheap wheat from Canada, cheap dairy products 

 from all quarters of the globe, and cheap meat prod- 

 ucts from the pampas grass plains of Argentine. 



" American industry and American agriculture are 

 interdependent. American industry can not injure 

 or destroy American agriculture without striking at 

 the agricultural people, who purchase, on the whole, 

 45 per cent of the products of American mills and 

 factories. American agriculture can not injure or 

 destroy American industry without striking at the 

 workers in industry, who purchase 90 per cent of 

 the output of the American farm." 7 This, in brief, 

 is the typical argument for protection by those who 

 reflect the viewpoint of industrial producers. But 

 it is only fair to say that the organized farmers of 

 the nation do not accept this analysis of the situa- 

 tion. 



T See Congressional Record, page 12885, for July 3, 1926. 



