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bushels and at the price of an average of 

 $1.50 per bushel when our wheat was only 

 70 cents per bushel and made the German 

 farmer so prosperous they were enabled to 

 buy large quantities of potash from the 

 government and they increased their crops 

 of potatoes till they could raise 400 bushels 

 per acre. They brought up agriculture so 

 that they were enabled to raise 85 per cent 

 of all the food consumed by 65 millions of 

 people on an area the size of Texas. And 

 that was one of the factors that enabled her 

 to fight a world war. To keep 15 millions 

 of tons of foreign merchant marine ships 

 prosperous the United States would need 

 to pay the ship owners $10 per ton register 

 annually. To make the American farmer 

 really prosperous the United States would 

 need to pay the farmer $1 per bushel export 

 and place an import duty of $1 per bushel 

 bounty on his wheat, and to make the cot- 

 ton grower equally prosperous the United 

 States would need to place 10 cents per 

 pound import duty and 10 cents per pound 

 export bounty on cotton. Or summarized : 

 15 million tons of merchant ma- 

 rine would cost $150,000,000 



100 milHons of export wheat.... 100,000,000 

 2 bilHon pounds export cotton.... 200,000,000 



$450,000,000 

 The income tax of the United States 



