Show n E HARD TIMES B By L. L A. A Ho Hollenbeck Panics and hard times come cone from various causes cause and amI then there is a pessimistic that helps it along Those that have e the power to change it that is congress do not seethe see seethe seethe the remell remedy There are complications that are mere minor matters that throw dust in their eyes and demand make good times Demand comes first and demand Is controlled by desire Desire is a n matter matter matter mat mat- ter of education and habit If you are educated to a habit of eating grape grapefruit grapefruit I fruit it then becomes a desire The desire becomes a demand and must be satisfied by a supply But It If you put puta a big hiJ tax tai on grape fruit so high that people will not buy It then the desire be beggins gins to wane and is superceded by another habit to to eat something else In its place which makes a demand for tor fort t something else But that tax Is a tariff and tariffs obstruct trade That cuts off ll demand and smothers desire and hence it causes a stagnation in business But a stagnation stag in business stops the mills and the wheels of or Industry Industry industry In In- which produces unemployment which makes panics and hard times But the big fellows that are making wealth out of the tariff at the expense of ot you and me are blind to the truth They think th they y can satisfy their their- greed reed forever fore and that is what is causing all this talk about changing the entire system of government do not want wanta says We a n thin thing because we have found re reasons rea rea- reasons sons Rons for it but we find reasons for it because we want It it That is a philosophy philosophy philo philo- sophy v that Is causing us most of our trouble to We think we must have something that hurts us and we bend bendall bendall bendall all our reasoning faculties to prove that we must have ha the very thing that hurts us to have ha A high tariff that shuts off foreign trade cant can't possibly benefit us It stops business shuts down mills and cuts off the workers worker's pay check And yet et the avaricious cap cap- capitalist capitalist that is robbing us all because he gets the benefits of a big tax tells us that we must have a high tariff to keep up the American standard of liv liv- ing His greed destroys himself after awhile but he be labors to prove something something something some some- thing that isn't true in hopes he will get enormous profits out of the public pocket So he yells We must protect American labor and he Is doing his best to destroy both himself and American American American Am Am- labor And Am American labor usually falls for it and all alt Join In Inthe inthe the he weary eary dance |