Show r f OUT OF WORK By I L L l A. A HOLLENBECK r r Generally the financial panics and haul hard times that heretofore have happened hap hap- i r in the United States have been cawed caused in the main by hy a contraction of i the currency or a ai scarcity of 1110 money n er ri r The he Federal Reserve bank bunk system ll passed pas pas- J sed ed tl in him a democratic administration tinder under un un- der del President Wilson made an elastic i- i currency so o that Jha t we have no po more shortage of money mone available in em erg erg- enl envies elides es The he country cO has plenty of moner money money mon- mon ey er plenty of manufactured commodities c t ties ies Ill plenty of farm produce for eY every every- everybody r body JO 1111 and Plenty of money What thenis then i is the trouble People are ale of work ork and probably hl more than four million people are out of work t i A man luau out of work worl cant can't nt b buy I an anything anything any any- f thing because e he lIe hasn't the money to tot t buy with and nud has no work to get et y money moner to bu buy with But there is an anover over o production eer everywhere everywhere-as where as as it seems CUIS AJI And the farm board an and other I 1 government agencies are urging the farmers to produce less so that they I can cant sell what they do produce It looks looks as as tho the the high tariff is is is' the cn cause l e off of most of this trouble Why Why The bl high lJ tariff is made in the interest t of the l manufacturers so so that fo foreign ei made goods cannot co come e into I this country because the tax on foreign goods is is so 80 hl high h that the American people people cannot annot afford to buy huy the goods I and pa pay pay the high tariff tax taT Well the foreigners ners will not buy of us if we will not hn buy of them because he cannot ik afford to to come to our om shores shores' with empty empt ships to lIn buy of us He e must carry cany a c cargo go each wa way and our tariff prevents that So our om foreign business Is de destroyed tro ed or greatly injured But that our is-our market nu and it is ruined b by bya tariff use of this this' 1 a too high The rhe ca cause condition is the selfish selCis desire of the i eastern ma manufacturers ers to compel the thet t American puhl public c to pa pay for the tIle manufactured manufactured man mall goods oo more than the they are worth which h lb means means means' what the goods worth orth plus the tax or tariff that the foreigner ner has to pay par in order to put his goods onto the American market S i That policy makes the high cost of living in this country countr without benefit benefit- tin ting the laborer and the most of the 4 profits forced from flom the American trade goes into the pockets of the man- man r and 1101 makes a surplus of American millionaires But while the they have thus mulcted the American Americ n public pub pub- r r lie lic by lIy compelling them to pay more moret t for th the manufactured goods oo s than they I r are worth they have also cut off our I f foreign market so that we cannot sell r our goods roods and farm products in foreign foreign forr for- for eign countries and thus have haye caused caused r an nn over oyer production in the United J home market which stops our machInes machines machines ma ma- chines and thus ihm the American laborer t is out of work vork This condition happened during b Taffs Taff's and we had hard q times es and aud the country elected Woodrow w Wilson and congress passed a lower tariff measure und and good times came again again I I I |