42 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



American farmer is to place an export 

 bounty on his wheat so he may have a 

 square deal. The same thing is true of the 

 cotton grower of the South. It is also ruin- 

 ous to make the importation of any raw ma- 

 terials from foreign lands free or nearly 

 free. 



Take, for instance, free wool. It forced 

 the price of American wool so cheap that to 

 buy one suit of all wool tailor made cost the 

 price of two bales of wool, or 36 raw ma- 

 terials to buy one finished suit; with the 

 low tariff formerly placed on wool it com- 

 pelled the wool raiser to bring 15 raw ma- 

 terials to buy one suit of all wool tailor 

 made clothing in normal times, whereas in 

 Europe it only cost the wool grower five 

 raw materials to buy one finished suit.. 



The tariff or import duty on grease wool 

 should be 50 cents per pound. The rural 

 population should be able to pay just as 

 high scale of wage as the city and then the 

 evil of aliens coming here and amassing for- 

 tunes in operating a few acres of garden 

 land near our city and getting the prices of 

 our protected city stores would be elimin- 

 ated entirely. 



^ A good index of how this works was pub- 

 lished in a Honolulu paper as follows : Pro- 

 fessor Y. Sakon, Aoyma Gakuin, a Chris- 

 tian institution in Tokio, who recently 

 passed through here on his way to the main- 

 land, believes not only in the annexation of 



