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THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA
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With Factories Closed Consumers
Cannot Purchase.
CUBA WAS A BIG BUYER
Cannot Export Produce Unless Other
! Countries Can Sell Us.
By H. E. MILES,
I Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
' la a small town In an agricultural
pectlon of the United States, not far
from the Canadian border, there Is a
glove factory. This concern has been
for years selling a large part of its
i product annually In Canada. Con
fess In the Emergency Tariff Act
placed on goods Imported from Canada
'a tariff so high that It made it unprofit
able for the Canadians longer to sell
jtheir goods In the American market.
(The small town glove factory, among
jmany others, lost its Canadian mar
ket and had to shut down.
It Is an economic lew that a nation
ibuys where It sells. It must do this
In order to have money to pay its
bills In the country where the bills
jare contracted.
j Canada being unable to sell her
'goods In this country was forced to
ell her surplus elsewhere. Naturally,
then, she supplied her needs In other
markets. But this particular glove
.factory Is Important because of Its
effect on the prosperity of the nearby
farmers.
The plight of this factory Is an ex
ample of how the prosperity of every
tnrerest In this co intry Is deper.dt-nt
IKn the prosperity of practically ev
ery other interest. This glove factory
is the mainstay of the town. Prac
tically nil the wnffe earners work
there. When their menn3 of livelihood
was cut off their Ability to purchase
was gone.
The smaller farmers who had a
ready market nt their very doors for
their butter and cg,:s and other farm
products found It necessary to seek
other and less satisfactory markets
out of town. But when they got out
Into the world market they found that
something was happening.
Everything they tried to sell was sold
8t a greatly reduced price, but every
thing that they attempted to buy they
found was reduced only slightly In
price or not reduced at all.
The Farmer Whlpsawed
Many complicated factors enter Into
a situation of this kind, but one of the
most important factors Is the tariff. I
have shown In a previous article that
in at least two commodities, those of
sugar .and wool, the tariff protection
accorded by the increased rates on
these two commodities does not reach
the farmer, but stops with and en
riches the manufacturer.
'" There Is n chemical plant In the
state of New Jersey which makes a fer
tilizer product for the Cuban market.
Cuba's sugar Industry has been prac
tically ruined by a GO per cent increase
In the tariff on raw sugar. Cuba Is
unable to buy the product of thi. chem
ical factory. One thousand men are
out of work. The families of those
one thousand men would use at least
a thousand dozen of e.s's a week and
not less than a thousand pounds of
butter and certainly nut less than
three thousand pounds of meat, all
products of the American farmer.
But In the case of Cuba there is even
a more direct loss of market to the
farmor.
fA glance at the trade reports shows
-that Cuba is one of the American
".farmer's most Important customers. In
3020 Cuba purchased of us more than
T0 per cent of all or.r exports of liogs,
lard compounds, canned sausage, nee.
potatoes, beans and onions. She ranfc
ed second among the nations in the
.purchase of our cattle, horses, mules,
pickled pork, sausage other than can
ned, poultry, cheese, sweetened con
densed milk, cocoa and prepared choco
late and corn. She ranked third in the
purchase of hams and shoulders, mis
cellaneous canned meat products, hay
find Hour. Cuba bought from i t during
T919 and 1020 over $8.",000,0(X) wortli
of truck gardening and farm products,
over $6,000,000 worth of live stock,
tover $ir,000.000 worth of dairy prod
ucts over $00,000,000 worth of meat
products, over $G3,000.(X)0 worth of
cotton cloth and over $30,000,000 worth
ot manufactures of ccttnn.
Farmer Needs Cuban Market
I It is pretty evident, then, that the
iAinerlcan farmer needs his Cuban mar
ket. It is further quite clear that if
this enormous quantity of surplus agri
cultural goods were dumped on the
home market his prices would slump
gt!'" -ore.
u . where does Cuba get the money
with which to purchase our goods?
The answer Is "sugar." Cuba produces
4,000,000 i ns of sugar annually. This
enormous rop is the mainstay of Cu
ban prosp." . ".ty. If it fails her, she must
go
bankrr; r. About one-nair oi n
output of
rar she sells in the United
States.
If an in -reased tariff makes It im
possible fo:- Cuba to sell ber sugar In
-n. hl, onntrv her power io ouy Buuu-.
. iiere is going to be cut off.
We sold Cuba $515,000,000 worth o' j
ioods In 1020, ana a lare pun u.
Ihese sales were manufactured prod-
OCAs in the case of the little town that
was dependent upon the glove factory
trr Us existence and could not buy Its
nuoi.lies from the surrounding farmers
. . .!. dint rtrm-n. so In cen-
wnen me iai.iu.jr
" eral if American manufacturers ore
eriously Injured by losing such m im-
portant market as Cuba, it Is going to
'' irUrtan wages paid tq labor and In
! tntn will curtail the farmers' dfi:eftlc
juarket
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Detective Stories
NUMBER 2695
Copyright by Th. Wheeler Syndicate, lac.
WHEN Policeman William Law
rence of Bath, Me., was found
in a dying condition a bullet
having drilled a hole through his lung
it was only natural that Dennis
Tracey should take up the trail of the
murderers. Tracey was Lawrence's
closest friend on the force.
No one knew anything abcut th.3
circumstances which led up to the
crime, and, apparently, there was lit
tle hope of discovering any clue, be
cause Lawrence, though not dead when
discovered on the following morning,
was extremely weak from exposure
and loss of blood. According to the
physicians, It was practically a cer
tainty that he would die without re
covering consciousness.
After leaving orders at the hospital
that he was to be notified at once if
his friend showed signs of being able
to talk, Tracey visited the scene of the
shooting In the hope of being able to
find footprints or other evidence which
would assist him in the search which
he intended to make. The investiga
tion, however, was entirely fruitless.
The dying policeman's revolver had
been fired three times, but without
effect for Tracey found the bullets
lodged In the rafters of a nearby ware
I'ouse, sufficiently close together to
provide a hazy outline of the place
from which Lawrence's assailant must
have fired. So far as Tracey was able
to reconstruct the affair, Lawrence had
come upon some one trying to break
into the warehouse, had probably
warned him by a shot over his head
and followed that by two other shots
which failed to take effect. The burg
lar had then turned and fired point
blank nt the policeman, dropping him
where he stood.
But who was the other man?
This was the question to which
Tracey determined to devote as much
time as necessary, the problem with
out a clue.
It was late the following night be
fore Luwrence's condition showed any
signs of change, and then only for the
worse. The physicians gave him only
a few hours to live, and Tracey hung
continually over the bed, hoping for
some word or sign which would pro
vide an Indication of the murderer's
Identity. Finally it came.
With an almost superhuman effort
the dying officer raised himself on one
elbow, and gathering every ounce of
Ids fast-failing energy, whispered the
single word :
"Wil-kin-son !"
Then he fell back, dead.
But that last word was enough. Ilad
It not been Tracey who heard It, It
would have meant nothing tor thw
two officers had been secretly working
on a number of ' recent warehmis
burglaries and they alone knew of thq
suspected connection of Daniel TFI1
kinson, son of a prominent New IlanrrH
shire family, with the one-man thefm
Now Trace j' knew that not only wnr:
Wilkinson guilty of the burglaries, bu
of a far greater crime the murder o
Policeman Lawrence.
Putting himself In the place of the
criminal, Tracey felt certain that the
latter would not remain in or arounfi
Bath. IJe must have known that Law
rence had recognized Mm, and woub
fear that the dying man would find
some way of Imparting this knowledgel
It was probable, therefore, that ha
would head for some hiding-placi
where he would be comparatively' safa
Knowing that Wilkinson's famifly, li
an effort t whiten the character cJ
the black si- ep, had sent him1 to-sea i
number of years before; Trace!
thought It ';kely that the- fugftiv
would attem- t to join the crew of ;
sailing vessel and lose himself ra i
foreign port. He accordingly warne
the authorities of all the New Ehg
land sea ports to be on the wSc
for a man of Wilkinson's descrinffrl
and then, securing leave of absemca
he took un the search combing rh
waterfronts of every city and row
from the Canadian border to Bosten;
It was nearly six months later, ai
ter he had almost abandoned hovi
that Tracey wandered along tK
wharves at Bangor and spotted tl
man he wanted "porting lumber fn
the :3chooner flood Intent, at the tw
of the Railroad street wharf. Wit;
out a sound tb policeman edged h
way along the dock until he was R
hind Wilkinson, and then dropped1 d
top of his man. flattening him tw til
deck. Almost before he knew wh
had happened the fugitive found1 hii
self handcuffed and on his way had
to Bath, there to be convicted of tK
murder of AVilliam Lawrence, aft'
one of the hrrdest-f ought legal battl
in the history of the state.
T' fact that. In the shadow f t
si -Tison wall nt Thomaston, the
st;- day a headstone bearing f
nii!en ' "2005," does not close t
'?isi for there are many who cla!
bnt the murderer had powerful frierj
vho succeeded in saving him from I
rnllows and helped spirit him ont
the country Into the Canadian Nor
west. But Tracey, who Is now hod
detective at a big Florida hotel, c
siders that he fulfilled his obligate
to Ids dead friend, when, after mon
of patient searching, he located
man who was responsible for LI
rence's death and produced the
dence which led to his conviction.
"Maybe Wilkinson is still alii
says Vrvey, "but the soul of Bill L
rence and my conscience are bote
peac."
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