Through the Interstate Commerce Commission the Government establishes freight rates that will yield the railroads of our country a reasonable profit on their investment. and the farmer must pay the same freight rates on 10cent cotton as on 25cent cotton. Through the Federal courts the Government says that gas companies. telephone and telegraph companies. water and light companies. and public utilities of every character are entitled to rates that will yield them 7 per cent profit ol the value of their investments. Through the Adamson law. the transportation act of 1920. and the immigration law of 1924. the Government has given protection to organized labor of the country. The tariff law gives protection to the manufacturing interests and forces tile farmer to pay tribute on everything lie buys from a file to a threshing machine. Over onethird of a century ago Congressman Kelly. of Pennsylvania. known as "PigIron" Kelly on account of his steadfast devotion to a protective tariff on pig iron. after visiting several sections of the South. said: It is tile most glorious country upon which my feet or eyes have ever rested.
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