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CHICAGO,SEPTEMBER, 1927
No. 2
0pERATORS SHOULD OPPOSE
p 1
HIGHER TARIFF ON PEANUTS
C0llsa! k ®°well, editor of the Atlanta
ltution, commenting on the va-
tniiff
issues, speaks of the
eacji as a “ local issue,” meaning that
ested S6C^ 0n
the country is inter­
nes ^ Pr°tective duties on the arti-
lai* 01 products which that particu-
°f tlT0^011 ^urnishes the consumers
3lj0 6 VV01’ld. Thus, he explains, a
a p ana democrat will be in favor of
g6r)u° tec^Ve tariff on wool, while a
faVo^ne °ld southern democrat will
othe , SUc^ a tariff on peanuts and
1 Products of the south.
s o c"? now the Southern Tariff As-
rajs& lon is asking the President to
pea^
margin of protection on
bie_
per cent under the flexi-
section of the tariff law
to Seln ^orce- It will be interesting
the
^ the President complies with
ei’n leC,Uest as he did when the north-
PlQducers of pig iron petitioned
°r added protection. The pea-
ew laisers live in democratic south-
n states.
Th
tect ® Peanut of the nation was pro-
ta)c
Under the tariff of 1909 by a
j?* °ne-half a cent per pound, and
a ce ^
a duty of three-eighths of
gar) ^ Per pound. The Orientals be-
^
° . S^ P in peanuts and th? duty
°f ; ^ e d to three cents per pound
a pJ°°bers un;helled and four cents
fya^U^d shelled. Now they want to
1,lt S^X to e*&ht cents per pound,
sounds reasonable from the
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standpoint of the man who grows
goobers.
But what about the consumer?
Years ago a nickel would talk
when a boy was in the market for
peanuts, but today it takes twenty-
five cents worth of peanuts to go to
a nine-inning baseball game and forty
cents will just about give a real pea­
nut hound enough goobero to sit
through a circus. Gone are the days
when the man with the whistling lit­
tle peanut roaster measured out a
pint or a quart of fresh and hot pea­
nuts in a real measure and turned
them into the pocket of the customer.
Some one conceived the idea of rais­
ing the standing o f the peanut by
putting a tariff on the goobers. Up
went the price, and instead of five or
ten cents’ worth of peanuts filling a
boy up to the top, a nickel will now
only buy a sample. Seven to nine
lonesome peanuts are now put up in
a fancy bag and sold for a dime, or
they are shelled and waited and half
a dollar will just about satisfy the
appetite of a real peanut lover.
If raising the tar ff on peanuts
from three to six cents per pound is
going to make enough goobers for a
ball game cost 50 cents, it is ‘to be
hoped the President will turn a deaf
ear to the Southern Tariff Associa­
tion.
The whole matter has served to
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