Show TilE THE ACUTE CAUSE j By lIy L. L A. A B HOLLENBECK CK What What hat Is causing the continual hard hardtimes hardtimes times We ye should have been over it Probably it will not be bo worse and likel likely like like- l ly a little better for tor awhile There are several Issues up to the American people peo pee pie but there is one that lias has become me r particularly acute and acute and that is our high robber tariff Let our republican friends laugh if it they want to but ma maybe maybe may may- be the old man knows something about it 1 Our high tariff under one pretext and another is made to obstruct trade It does obstruct trade and It has hns ang nag angered angered ered the nations of the earth and they ry have ha to have ha a tarl tariff to protect themselves them them- k I selves sel es against our robber tariff or tax TJ on foreign goods Those tariff taxes by other countries obstructs our trade err f too Therefore several billion dollars has been sent abroad to construct ru manufacturing plants In foreign countries countries coun coun- tries where they can employ cheap heap labor lubor atod abd sell on a local market and avoid old paying pl tariff y tax That shuts down our mills bec because use w 0 we e cannot sell our goods That stops employment and em- em puts six million workers out of em em- That reduces wages wages that that is it either cuts th the kage scale or tEa th i amount of time employed That is is' is a acul acut y cut cul in wages f Therefore a high tariff has reduced the American living H which high standard is just what we want to maintain t We want a tariff tariff tariff-a a different tariff that will put Iut the same price upon pon foreign goods that the cost of such goods are in America That will not seriously obstruct trade but our robber rob robE E ber tariff act certainly obstructs trade t and business and prosperity V That trade shall flow freely Is a natural law You know that If you you obstruct trade by putting a big tax on goods that you bu buy from a foreign country you OU are r trade trad and nd when that foreign country ob- ob trade In reprisal by putting a Ii big tax on what we sell then we are hurt You can figure and figure and try to Justify the high robber tariff but the tariff has had a big factor In cutting down the price of what the farmer raises to sell as well ell as It It has bas hit the manufacturer in the same way Think it over my friends and criticIse criticise criticise critic critic- ise it if you want to but with all the 1 tine fine ne explanations you IOU m must st admit that thata a tariff tax must obstruct trade and if all the countries thus obstruct trade then we are all hurt Let us follow the natural la laws of trade and change this S S laws of nature are supreme t the e trouble Is the grabbers want to ren repeal Jo al the laws of nature r |