Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — Butter and Eggs Also to Be Shipped to the U. S. [ARTICLE]

Butter and Eggs Also to Be Shipped to the U. S.

It takes longer than six months to test a tariff bill.. Democrats who have tried to have it appear that the recently adopted measure would not affect the prices of the American producers will soon be kept very busy explaining. Great shipments of corn from South America republics, other grain from Canada, beef and other meats from both north and south, have btfen instrumental in cutting the prices of these products and the farmer has felt the losses already. Now butter and eggs are being received. New Zealand, Argentina, and Australia are sending these products as well as cheese and condensed milk and the arrival is having its effect on all these home produced necessities. Butterfat hasdrop ped about 8 cents a pound within the past few weeks, but it is going lower and lower as long as we have a federal law that admits free of duty the milk and cheese and butter of other countries. The Indianapolis Star is very watchful not to say anything that lends encouragement to the republican cause and an article telling of the effect of these shipments is published in very small type on an inside page. It says: “The appearance- in the American markets of foreign butter and eggs, as well as cheese and milk, has caused several sharp declines in the market valup of these commodities. That the lower tendency in these products is to be permanent is the Conclusion of Stanley Wyckloff of the Indianapolis Poultry Co. He says: 1 believe 30 cents will be the high mark in the Elgin butter market for the next few years.’ He attributes all the. recent losses In prices to the competition offered foreigners in American markets because of the removal of the tariff. On butter the entire duty was not removed although it was reduced more than one-half.” Even in Indianapolis, where the products come in direct competition with the Indiana dairy and produce farms is butter and poultry to be received. A shipment is to come the latter part of this week to Indianapolis and it will be only a question of time until the people o# the smaller communities will be eating butter and eggs shipped from the ftrtir ends of the earth or the prdSucer will be selling these articles at vastly reduced prices. And all on account of this democratic tariff.’ Mr. Fanner and Mrs. Farmer, it is time for you to give these some thought and plan to get back on a protective basis through the means of the republican party.