Show Distribution By L L. L A. A Hollenbeck The presidential election is near- near ing Most people have already made up their minder now to vote We are in tho the midst of a great panic and depression And yet there is ls plenty of everything Plenty of goods either already manufactured or that can easily be manufactured because eleven million men are begging for work The only difficulty is to find a away away away way to trade and distribute goods We Ve have plenty of everything But there is a block and hindrance of distribution That is all I Now all that has hns to be done to tomake tomake tomake make good times is to find a way of ot trading and distributing goods The Socialists say that capitalism has utterly failed and millions i iare are cussing pleading and near starvation and nothing the trouble except that we cant can't exchange goods Now you all know that if you had money you could exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change goods easily Money is the medium of ex ex- change Why haven't you the money Because people are out of work and can get no wages Why are they out of work Simply Simp Simp- ly because the market is obstruct obstruct- ed What has obstructed the market market market mar mar- ket The answer is the high prohibitive prohibitive pro pro- tariff has obstructed the market Now if it isn't that please tell us what it is The writer writ writ- er wants to know He has an open mind and feverishly desires to know Please tell us Oh says one The disaster of the world war wat caused it Well people wear clothes yet They still eat when they can get something to eat They still want furniture machinery machinery machinery machin machin- ery and everything The war did not rob us of our desires and I But desires and necessities ties are what make markets Therefore we have ha the markets But we are stopped from buying because we haven't the money and we cant can't get the money until the trade obstructions are ed The great war didn't kill the desires and wants for necessities of mankind The great war racket racket rack rack- et as to our exchanging goods is all hooey You know it as well as the writer ter does All we have to have is a medi medi- um urn of exchange and if men had work and were getting wages we would have the money moncy and trade would flow freely The prohibitive tariff has stopped our mills mUla and many hundreds of our mills have havo moved to foreign countries and andare andare andare are employing cheap labor That Thatis is why we are arc short of money because because be be- cause caus a high tariff wall has has' prevented pre pre- prevented prevented pre pre- vented the foreign trade from getting getting getting get get- ting over the wall and hence our mills have jumped over the wall wail walland wailand walland and gone to foreign countries Why talk taUe about a high tariff protecting American labor The high prohibitive prohibitive prohibitive pro pro- Smoot-Hawley Smoot tad tariff law has destroyed American labor Eleven million men get no labor nor wages at all Then how does docs docsa a high tariff protect American labor I would like to ask you Dont Don't be prejudiced and silly about this high tariff Let us be reason reason- able Why be loyal to a party name when your country is going to ruin rum Isn't your country of more importance than your paray paray paray par- par ay |