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Philippine Tariff Bill; Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 61st Congress, 1st Session. April 20, 1909: (English)

Philippine Tariff Bill; Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 61st Congress, 1st Session. April 20, 1909: (English)

          
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...to the millions of thousand patches in the Philippine Islands and collect all the rice there and send it here and displace a cheaper grade of rice, and that we would go to Saigon and buy rice and let the Filipinos eat it. We have pointed out that rice in the Philippine Islands is currency. Labor is paid half in cash and half in rice. Each man raises a little rice, and it would be impossible to collect it all. We could not allay the fears, and thought free rice might prove a menace against the passage of the Payne bill. As Mr. Clark says, we import $7,000,000 of rice a year to feed the people. The people of this country will really get the benefit of that market when the Panama Canal is opened, and with an increased rice production it will have a direct route right to the Philippine Islands. Mr. Clark. If they had some kind of an animal as expeditious as the mule, do you not think that they could double the crops? General Edwards. If it was not for the labor. Mr. Clark. Some animal to supplant the carabao? General Edwards. The government ran a farm and attempted to show the Filipinos how to raise rice and the government nearly went broke and had to quit. I think the most practical men that we have sent over there have come to the conclusion that the way of raising rice by transferring or transplanting is much wiser than by modern irrigation as they do in the South. We sent a lot of mules over there. I am just sending 150 now for the civil government. They do wonderfully well except when they get over there in the mud. In General Lawton's campaign I saw 16 mules hooked to a wagon carrying 2,400 pounds give it up. Mr. Clark. What is the trouble; are their feet so small that they sink in? General Edwards. That is just the point. You know what a mule is after he...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781130556339
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1130556336
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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