Show b TARIFFS I SA AND FOREIGN TRADE j By L. L L A. A Hollenbeck There has has has' just been an Imperial f fe e conference in i Canada South Arri Africa and find Australia Austral a ahad had representatives there They y propose to make a high protective J t tariff tariff Ui against America n and to lo li ti Y g 3 and sell seIl among themselves Britain 11 is a a. world unto itself It has largo lars possessions in all tho the zones o ot i lIioI I I earth They lil y cn can call deal dealin ear In n torrid z ite ij I products and excl exchange temperate zona zone products and ariti acid pay pay no rode Trade is free and they can gait g I Ial al alone ne That tends to shut of oft off Am American American Ameri Ameri- rl- rl can tra trade e and business High lUsh barriers tics are are for the purpose purpose- ref of ot shutting out foreign trade and putting putting put put- f ting up that the home folks folIes 1 have to pay more moro for their living than an I 1 what it Is worth y yIt i 1 It Is s all aU right enough to have ve a j small tariff on some things so as asto s to even up foreign c eap labor an and d- d m then quit That gives the Amor American can farmer r and business man a chance to live and make a little money for f himself Buta uta high tariff shuts out the foreigner unless he wants something something some some- something thing so bad that he will consent tobe to tobe f be robbed and the result is that he hei i goes home madder than a March hare bare and nd proceeds to play the tariff game a little himself and the result Is i that he completes the disaster al al- al ready begun by our own politicians I by cutting off oft the balance of the tho trade that was left us The high tariff gives the home speculator a chance to reach into the farmers farmer's pocket and make him pay a high price for everything that he pro pro pro- ro- ro duces The big fellows are the ones that put a high tariff over on us No use to o shut our eyes Just as well wen look at facts as they are Some DemI Democrats Dem Dem- I are for high tariff arIa and also ajo o I some Republicans They are all j tarred with the s same me stick sUck of ot self felt interest That Is intensely hum human humen jn And we wo admire a man that is J man but wo we have to look took out r for r him Just the same for after all it I is tho law of or the survival of ol the fittest and the test is up to the generally hen gen whether they are fit to analyze analyze analyze ana ana- and fight their own battles hg and to do that is to understand the the Iud and wherefores of the problems problem that they must tackle It isn't boat best for tor a aman aman man to be bo too hidebound by a party name nor to go oft off on a tan tangent ent on some fad where ho he thinks the Die whole world Is going to the If It his t J I fad is not carried out The 1 world moves along about the same sarno and and man Is on the up up-grada t ell H the time and If It he gets nit olt by the tho tariff propaganda or some other tad fad then he ha is js bit and sometimes n a man hasto hasto has hasto to be chewed up considerably before he comes to his senses I |