Show O 1 w T Tariff ariff fr ll 5 I IDy ate r 1 By Dy J. J P. P May lay In y your Ul valuable ble paper last weel week Judge beck replied to mi my i story on Markets ts and Tariff It Itis Itis i is a pleasure to have ha a little l newspaper newspaper news news- paper chat with the Judge because it is high minded or intended t to be beso beso beso so and it is done with the best liest of personal feelings Judge Hollenbeck gets gels confused I I however on this tariff question Several Several Sev Sev- se I I eral in interesting items play be noted ITo t I To follow his reply rather than to answer U the e largest mistakes first we shall proceed This incidental incidental incidental tal protection which the Judge says his party part favors is rattler rather mIsty misty misty mis mIs- ty That is just just what he is complaining complaining com com- ing ab about ut My party was split in 1912 the majority favoring Roosevelt Roosevelt that is in this Th part of the country nt TI I h believe eve a a differential t tariff would woul be best right now ana and anaI andI I sure voted for Teddy that a anno anno mo modo do domini Hence Bence we are agreed on that Says the Judge But Buta a high rr protective protective pro pro- tariff Is isa a tariff that m makes kes kesa a farmer pay about 1 for a mowing ying machine and all other farm implements at ht the same ratio when before the war he could buy that that mowing m machine for about and other implements in proportion Now Judge you evidently are guessing There i is no tarm tariff on farm implements none not nota a cent on implements Implements Implements im Im- and equipment used on oh the farm com commonly lo Ii known l as as' as I I ments Our GOP does not need a cent on these items item's and on many I others because no oth other r country on onearth onearth earth carth can compete with us in making mak mal making ing these goods We Ve sell mowing machines to Ito many other countries Of course as a a- a arule rule we would not use the goods we s sell them but we make malo then them and s sell ll them in large I quantities in ill the worlds world's markets against all competitors s. s And we get geta a large share of the worlds world's business hush bust ness in this line The Judge is a mixed up on his prices too On July July 30 1914 we sold a mower 4 2 1 ft ft fl regular here at Roosevelt for That eighteen months of was after about Wilson free trade that grand Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic tariff plan You may rem remember embel em feeling pretty blue her ber we were good On July 6 G business was not 1918 we we sold a mower 4 1 lr it regular regular reg- reg In each case these ular for time basis hasis These prices were on a regime were during the Democratic before th the th normal price the one ne other was a war price war and the term expert Wilsons Wilson's But before about 1919 this thi same sarlie mower went in 19 0 9 O It and another up for tor about 00 time sold However on the best mower we make mala makes one of vo t-vo or at in this s country any anyone three seU sellers rs 5 ft heavy frame th ee hest the T JudgeS Judge'S C s 5 does not cost does mower frame rame B 5 ft t. t A heavy price tim tinH sons seasons at basins Points point's on 01 two about now only will cost than two or 01 ibee years 1000 less wl l ago The rho 1914 nh hasH now cost about 4 00 tim d dOur Our labor co cost t is 3 cost no tariff on onit material tai n b-n and our higher than D. D pd- pd it it either cither Is much Democratic good good the the- war in the war foro Toro mower here at noo c- c But a times never velt or at atI Myton I or IC in D cost a as loW 00 as On Last P Page g 1 IU L. L v y Prom From rago Pago Pa o One I I TARIFF TALK I tim tunes times s since 1912 and never went t to I. I the the- Judges Judge's s figures even een at tit atthe the tho highest war peak price Again the tho Judge errs errs on on thi this reprisal business While the British have haye us on rubber and they arc taking all they can get is it not true that we have them paying us on that thai war loa loan They are re in fn a bad fix But nut sisal is controlled by American Alii il money mOlley owned by two o or J three big Ig r American corporations I advise tho thu Judge Judo to look up the the tariff on this I sisal l too I Says Judge And we j known that the the- high tariff is is' not to to protect labor unless it be some times limes I as an incidental but it enables the tho thea a I big trusts tints ito to raise the price pric of om com com- omi j i n Odit es' es as high as tho the tariff and compel the American public to foot the bill Of courso courso course this will not not nots y s apply f to farm Implements with no no nos no's s tariff nor to sisal It wont apply to toI I Cuban sugar that cO comes in almost I r I I 1 4 i t a i l f I free froe It applies on n nth th t l tc alfalfa Ij seed tariff thank fhe he Good Lord Lord And it applies on on wool beef other 1 than Cub Cuban In sugar hides and much o c craw raw material 21 anti U manufactured mori flier mer J i chandise No doubt there are many i Items protected that c could ul be he cut I down own a little BLUe It would not be nat nai- c o url uraj human workmanship if there there thee I Iwer were not errors i But t this tari tariff f. f sloes docs protect A American Ameri- Ameri eli 1 can labor yes res sir We Va will not compete compete com com- c pete with European and As Asiatic J Ar- Ar Argentine s shops ops no more than with Argentine Ar Al Ali i gentine beef In lu Germany they still make knives the old way The c father fathel makes makes them in his J sho shop the whole family assists hint r the the traders gather gathe I up the thc product product 1 at ata a mere more trifle of its true value and it goes on the market Will we try tn to compete with th that t. t German family Mini tami- ly No In their mills and factories they employ children far more than I we do clo women an and 1 girls all paid a scant lIv living ng While we employ nUrn girls girls' In hI Four our textile mills mills- we wc pay them But Dut in some somo Countries countries they use the tho children and the and the U e mother I la is compelled d to labor oven cven when nature na ms- ture turo says no Our Oui homes the time furnishings furn furn- the education provided the thc food time c on table the tho amusement ar sro are all all al the worlds world's highest t No P. P other country comes near noar us Wo Yc want then to conic conio to our s standard but hu w we WO wont lt down lOWn to their standard stand stand- ard t 1 lz t r r On ma many iy lines such such as Implements ments for instance we we manufacture on such a mammoth scale our effi emm- efficiency efficiency is so great that no competitor tor can compete But nut there are many products on which we cannot cannot compete products of both mill factor factory fac fac- tor tory tort and farm Argentine can c'an Meat heat Meatus beatus us on wheat and on beef and Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada can easily casH beat us on wheat Is this not a i labor cost While climate enters as a factor is not the human lUman force there just the thc same South America has cheaper labor and climate a and d Canada has rich tracts tract lof of land that that grows wheat cheaper than than wo we can do It At present the president Coolidge has power to ma make e. e the tariff somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what like the Roosevelt plan differ differ- No doubt he and his helpers helpers help help- ers era are trying to do it t. t But we arc not clear off the track as the thc Judge would have us believe Look at nt the thc 1 world today England is hardly able to to walk Russia's millions in cha chaotic tic i t prostrate France Franceso so knocked out that she has a new cabinet over ever every new new moon and and the franc is of doubtful value even on ona ona ona a very low scale Italy is under a aleader aleader leader who believes th that t he is a semi- semi f divine clivine master who is to restore homes Rome's greatness and ma maKe thu 1 Sacred College the the worlds world's court l Japan is playing for mastery of two wo I thirds of the tho human family while China slowly breaks breaks up in a revolt r I Uon tion that is sapping the thc life out 0 or e Ir her several million p people ople Until r stability slowly comes out ont of this world agony agony we Americans are the J luckiest people on earth Error Erlo I wrong imperfection tion ar are all appat- appat apparent ent on every elY hand but see sec how holy much macli better botter we are than other nations na na- lions We Yc must select our emi emi- emigrants I a grants and YO we we must keep that iff Why even Democrats want Inci tariff now since Wilson's Wilsons s 's j like lIko Cleveland's experiment would youl l 1 not work 0 |