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International Institute of Agriculture at Rome: Letter Written by David Lubin to Hon. George C. Perkins and Hon. Frank P. Flint Relative to the ... of Agriculture at Rome (Classic Reprint)
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Thus far Congressmen Gaines and Rucker will undoubtedly agree with me. But let us go a step further.
The United States is an exporting country of the staples culture. It exports continuously, and the exporters only American producers prices formed in competition with similar prod nots of the other nations of the world. In other words, the exports are sold at the world's price.
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While the official Government crop-reporting system of the Institute is to be a factor in determining the world's price of the farmer's product, agricultural cooperative_ banking is to enable him to exercise control over his labors in accordance with the trend of modern economic developments. The one is complementary to the other.
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A New Political Issue: Protection To Staple Agriculture; Plan To Equalize The Burdens And Benefits Of Protection, And For The Amelioration Of The Condition Of Labor In Manufacturing Centers ...
David Lubin
s.n., 1894
Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; General; Agriculture; Protectionism; Tariff; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General; Wags
Proposal for an International Conference on the Regulation and Control of Ocean Carriage by Means of an International Commerce Commission for the Purpose of Steadying the World's Price of the Staples
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A New Political Issue: Protection to Staple Agriculture Plan to Equalize the Burdens and Benefits of Protection, and for the Amelioration of the Condition of Labor in Manufacturing Centers.
The International Institute of Agriculture and Its Influence on Economic Welfare, Vol. 1: Reply to Some Comments Made by the Minister of Agriculture of France (Classic Reprint)
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It is evident that the value of the Institute's final reports depends on the accuracy of the original data furnished by the Governments.
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A comparative statement showing the measures adopted by the different countries tending to retain their efficient labourers on the soil, would contribute more to the development of agriculture than investigations as to the world's supply of the staples.
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David Lubin was a Polish-born American agriculturist and businessman. He served as an American delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome from 1910 to 1919.
Background
David Lubin was born on June 10, 1849 at Klodowa, Poland, the son of Simon and Rachel (Holtz) Lubin. His father died in David's early infancy. His mother, who was left with six children, married again. About 1853 the family, after passing unharmed through a pogrom, fled to England and, in 1855, emigrated to the United States. David's boyhood was spent in the Ghetto of New York City. His mother, a resolute, high-tempered, energetic, and deeply religious woman, trained him so thoroughly in faith and morals that her influence persisted throughout his life.
Education
Lubin received his formal education in the public grammar school and learned the trade of goldsmith and jeweler.
Career
Lubin went west at sixteen, knocked about San Francisco and in 1868 was a member of a party of gold-hunters in Arizona. Returning east without having found gold, he met with failure as a traveling salesman. In 1874 he opened a small dry-goods store in Sacramento, California, in partnership with his half-brother, Harris Weinstock. Two principles, complete truth in the representation of articles for sale and a fixed price, dominated the enterprise. The idea of a fixed price was new in California. The principles, together with sound management, made the business an outstanding success. A mail-order department speedily grew into the largest mail-order undertaking on the Pacific Coast.
In 1884, now prosperous, he fulfilled a promise to his mother by taking her on a pilgrimage to Palestine. In the Holy Land, he later remarked, "I was vividly reminded of the mission of my people". He became a militant reformer, a minor Hebrew prophet. His passion "to render service in ways in which Israel is to serve" was directed by a restless and inquiring mind. He read much of economics, political science, and history, and was influenced particularly by Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill. His own ideal was abstract justice.
From his mercantile venture Lubin branched into fruit-growing in California. He promptly discovered that the policies of the railroads worked to the disadvantage of the small grower and to the undue profit of certain Eastern middle-men and he became one of the leaders of an agrarian revolt which caused the railroads to modify their practices and which eventuated in the organization of the fruit-growers. Soon he advanced from a provincial to a national point of view.
He was a protectionist because he feared the results for America of competition with the low-paid labor of Europe. He argued that since the tariff could not protect the farmer, who was primarily an exporter, the system of protection worked an injustice to the agricultural group. By means of lectures and pamphlets he began an agitation for "equalization of protection. " His proposal was to offset the protection afforded to manufacturers and industrial laborers by granting the producers of the staples a bounty on exports in the form of a government subsidy to reduce the cost of ocean carriage from shipping points to the foreign import markets. He won a following, but the dominant protectionists publicly sneered at the "crank" while privately one of their number tried to silence him by persuading him to accept a consulship. The country was not ready to carry the principle of protection to its logical limit. In 1896 the intense and often irascible reformer parted from his first wife, Louisa Lyons, under circumstances which caused his physician to order a trip to Europe to ward off a breakdown. The journey caused Lubin to transfer the emphasis of his thought from the American husbandman to the farming classes of the world.
Attending the International Agricultural Congress of 1896 at Budapest, he sketched in an address the rough outlines of a project that was to absorb his energies for the rest of his life. Convinced now that justice to the American farmer was impossible without justice to the husbandmen of the world, he proposed an International Institute of Agriculture in which could be pooled and made available that information concerning crops and other agricultural matters which would enable the husbandmen of any country to fight intelligently for their own interests.
During the next twelve years he talked, wrote letters and pamphlets, and traveled widely seeking to win adherents to his plan. After a snub by the United States Department of Agriculture he laid his case before the governments of Europe. Great Britain and France ignored him, for his proposal seemed almost absurd in a day of intense nationalism. Victor Emanuel of Italy, however, was persuaded. Italian initiative resulted in the establishment in 1910 of the International Institute of Agriculture. Lubin remained for the rest of his life the United States delegate to the permanent committee of the Institute. Success did not change his mood. He consciously tried to personify Israel fighting for mankind. "But there is a higher service . .. and that is for the United States of the World. And I am happy to be an humble soldier and private in that army".
Lubin was an advocate of tariff protection for American farmers.
Membership
Lubin was the director of the International Society for the Colonization of Russian Jews.
Connections
Lubin married Louisa Lyons in 1875. His second wife was Florence Platnauer whom he had married in 1897. He was survived by his second wife and by eight children, three sons and five daughters.
In 1913 on the occasion of the meeting of the congress in Rome Mr. Lubin received a silver cup as a token of appreciation of his efforts in originating of the organization the International Institute of Agriculture (the IIA).