226 THE GREEN RISING 



"was to give to the farmer the same degree and 

 security of tariff protection as the manufacturer 

 enjoys. . . . The corn belt Republicans made an 

 alliance with the Democrats to out-tariff the tariff, 

 and that maneuver has failed. The only thing left 

 to everybody who wants to do something for the 

 farmer is to attack the tariff and to revise it down- 

 ward. All their earlier alternatives about raising 

 the farmer on stilts as high as tariff stilts, upon which 

 the manufacturers stride, have failed. The other 

 alternatives, to reduce the heights of the stilts on 

 which the manufacturers walk, is now in front of 

 them. The proposal to raise the prices of farm pro- 

 ducts to parity with manufactured products has 

 been defeated. There is left only the proposal to 

 reduce the price of what the farmer is compelled to 

 buy from the manufacturer by reducing the protec- 

 tive tariff." 



The widespread dissatisfaction through the West 

 over the failure of Congress to pass the McNary- 

 Haugen bill resulted in the Senate renewing its 

 efforts to pass a farm-relief measure. A few days 

 before final adjournment of the session in July the 

 Senate passed the Cooperative Marketing bill, 

 known as the Tincher bill, which previously had 

 passed the House. Two important amendments 

 were offered to this bill while it was under con- 

 sideration. The Fess amendment proposed to 

 create a revolving fund of 100 million dollars to be 



