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Show II r t.. THE CITIZEN eign and unimportant to the average man or woman. But the almost daily closing of mills and plants of this country should suffice to drive home to every voter the grave importance of a tariff system that actually protects American industry from every known angle and which, in the final analysis, does not leave it an open question to be dealt with according to the ideas of any set of men more interested in accumulating . American dollars than they are in promoting the welfare of the nation. The tariff problem, because of existing European economic conditions and rates of exchange, has ceased to be anything but serious, degrave, dangerous and menacing to national prosperity. Propaganda signed to defeat American valuation and to render our tariff rates as impotent as possible is contained in the persistent and cacophonous clamor that ascends to high heaven, on all sides, anent, the importance of foreign export business. It is a safe bet that this business' never will become more than a modicum of what the home market is today. If these United States must depend for prosperity upon foreign export business it is, indeed, a bankrupt nation and the soonier the program long ago launched by foreign and native importers and international bankers, to Chinafy the country is consummated, the sooner we will know definitely where we are at. Here is a vivifying example of what the absence of an American tariff valuation system is doing for the country today: The Dexter Sulphite, Pulp and Paper Companys plant has been closed after a quarter of a century of operation, throwing 350 men out of employment and disheartening residents of Dexter, N. Y. The management of this plant can offer no hope for a reopening of this mill. Operating costs in this highly specialized plant had been reof emduced to a minimum. Wages had been cut, with the ployees, until rock bottom was reached. Yet the concern was losing money and a shutdown was the only course left. Foreign competition is the explanation. The Dexter Sulphite, Pulp and Paper Company could not meet with German competition. German labor, under the present rate of exchange, works for four cents an hour ; rents in Germany are $2 a month. In the face of this competition the American mill could not function. It could not reduce labor to the Gentian basis. It could not sell goods made by labor costing 35 or 40 cent an hour at the same price German goods bring, made with labor costing four cents an hour. The American laboring man cannot be asked to work for less than the 35 or 40 cent minimum. The company knew this, but the men also knew the company cannot afford to pay it. Therefore the mill is closed. . The. German government during the last year has succeeded in producpractically destroying the American potash industry. Forty-fou- r ers, with plants worth $30,000,000 and employing American workmen must close unless the Gennan competition can be strangled. The farmers may think that by having cheap potash they win, but their market is reduced with American workers out of jobs. Besides the foreign competition in agricultural products has been largely influential in reducing, the prices of farm corps. Denmark, Holland and Argentine have been flooding this country with dairy products. It costs no more to ship butter from Denmark to New York than from Boston to New York. With the rate of exchange where it is the tariff means nothing. What is true of the paper industry and German competition is going to hit other mills besides the Dexter plant all too soon what is true of the dairy business, what is true of the potash industry, is true of other lines. Cutlery is one that is affected by this competition. Two basic North Country industries are direct sufferers paper making and . i co-operat- ion . . . , farming. Representative Fordnev, father of the house tariff bill, which carried an American valuation clause, says he will fight to the last ditch for American standards of living and for American prosperity as against a comparatively open American market to all nations of the world. . It is quite possible that champions for American living standards and the American valuation plan will be discovered in the senate. That a prolonged and bitter fight over the revised and revamped bill, as handed down by the senate finance committee, will ensue is a foregone conclusion. It will be interesting to note how many senators will take their stand at the side of foreign and domestic importers and interna tional bankers opposed to any form of American industrial and rampantant advocates of free exploitation of the greats p, market. re n 1 er . NEW INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT AT STATE OAPIH er or The first glimpse the casual visitor to the Utah state capital the big industrial exhibit, which occupies a prominent positio first floor, gives a delightful and thrilling impression cf its q variety. While perhaps the massive pile of granite, harmoniously and surmounted with its magnificent and lofty tower, with its grounds and its imposing position above the level of the mah the city, may prove sufficient attraction to call to its environs m tourists and visitors to the city, yet it has many shrines at ship other than its own pristine beauty. And not the least of these shrines is the new industrial has been set up by Custodian M. M. Warner, Jr., with the of Chief Electrician P. A. Nelson. This exhibit and as it goes and it now occupies a space 50 by 200 feet in a most comprehensive of all the products of the great state of UhJ intensely educational in character and may be said to repi? miniature, the teeming industries of mine, the farm, the range ranches of the state, as well as giving a glimpse of the art posed itself upon this intermountain section; also it is emble the varied and colorful bird life of the surrounding hills and ph This exhibit, which it will profit all citizens to view, contain the wonder carts that withstood the Pioneer treck to this c guarded Eldorado, 16 silver trophies, 70 transparencies, 4 diplomas, 35 pictures, 4 cases of birds, 4 cases of minerals, industrial exhibits, 1 case forestry exhibits and a big industrial r Further extention of the exhibit shows 250 jars of grainjj varieties depicted; 400 sheaves of grain 45 varieties giving idea of the growth of wheat, oats and barley in the various fane tions of the state. There are 220 jars of fruits and vegetiK varieties covering the wide range of table fruits and relishes ous to this climate. The bee propagators have 32 jars of hour exhibit, there are four jars devoted to mineral oils, 60 jars of ofrafc jars of concentrates, 28 jars of pest exhibits, 29 jars taxide with apologies to the Sphinx one case of mummies. The ft represented with bears, elk and deer, all looking fine and they are stuffed to the limit. There are numerous pioneer the past days of glory and hardships and to keep these relics from the souvenir hunter, they are at preset at th wa Inc si fo: :ec ev ith )i ed nr th let co-operat- ion th g1 12 died-in-the-wo- Hi ol, off. Many of the more aggressive and proggressive countie state are now represented in this state house exhibit of Utahs tivity and it is hoped to include all in the fullness of time, men of Utah are now arranging for a most complete and! hensive showing of the states wool growing industry, It t from the raw to the scoured wool and will show the many vanoe of marketable wool produced in this great wool prod icing Custodian Warner .takes modest pride in the exhibit he h but feels that there is wide opportunity for more divisions of the state, civic bodies, lodges, part of tions, schools and individuals. He avers that it is an exh$ and of the whole people and believes that they should mate shrine, absorb its educational features and become r- ore ft the scope of the productive possibilities of their home land. not as' During the tourist season, 1921, this exhibit, th'n to as it is today, proved a unerring magnet for all rotors, ave-capitol building and a careful tabulation disclosed tha" an persons inspected it each day of that long season. The present year Custodian Warner expects tc pansion in size and importance of his pet show booth. . co-opera- tK sub-politic- al - f Thin skinned city hall politicians have taboo' Tc cause it is not as colorless as a dishrag like a' oter matters arc con publications where 1 civic-governme- nt es. |