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Show THE CITIZEN 4 AMERICAN VALUATION OR NATIONAL DISASTE-R- WHICHf Internationalists and League of Nations protagonists, who are raising loud wails of grief over the American valuation plan, which the Congress has proposed to write into a new tariff hill and which has received the unqualified approval of President Harding are but attempting to lay the cornerstone of national disaster. It is hardly to be presumed that misguided followers of these s, composed of foreign importers, communists and ranting internationalists, realize what they are doing, much less comprehend the insidious intent back of the nefarious campaign now being waged, nations of Europe, but ostensibly in the interest of the war-tor- n actually designed to insure economic control of the world, in lending them their support. The cacophonous din raised by these predatory interests is being ' directed solely to the pending tariff bill, and particularly the American valuation plan, from the obvious fact that it catches the ready ear of the omnipresent political reformer and materializes a cloud of doubt and dissent in the feeble minds of those who are inclined to place the welfare of foreign nations above that of their own land. Apparently the misguided and the predatory fail to recognize that there is a breaking point a line of demarcation beyond which it would be absolutely fatal to go. Nor do they pause in their to lay the United States, dormant, at the feet of foreign countries, to consider the economic status of the hosts of foreign-bor- n who have come here to participate in the general prosperity offered by a free nation. The uninformed reformers evidently fail to realize that to lower the tariff bars is to place this country at such an economic disadvantage with foreign manufacturers, employing cheap labor, that her industries could not long survive. Blinded by false tenets of altruism and lacking in that keen perception, which makes for success in the mercantile field, the conduct of a corporation or the running of a vast government, they are immune to the knowledge that existing rates of exchange are working an untold hardship on the American manufacturer, who will eventually be forced out of even their home market unless the American valuation plan prevails. No longer is it good business or safe economics for this country to depend on an ad valorem system which literally translated means With foreign nations doing business on a according to value. monetary system, worth only a fractional part of what it was under normal conditions in exchange for American gold, and standing for par in the payment of wages and commodities at home, the opportunity for foreign made goods to glut this market was never more roseate with promise. It would eventually close all our factories, make peons of our farmers and plunge the nation either into the throes of dispair or into the arms of the Bolshevists. Hence the wild and sinister shuffle to fasten a low tariff or at least an impotent excise law upon the richest nation in all the world today. Picture, if you can, the ultimate of utter want and woe that would flow from the economic breakdown of our industrial organizations. The chaotic conditions that would ensue when all our big factories were closed to make way for foreign imports at a cheaper price, beggar adequate description. Unemployment would lead to anarchy of the rankest sort, which, like a sleeping giant of destruction, lies always near at hand. Under a protective tariff system these United States became great. And only under the perpetuation of such a system revised and brought may she continue to he great ; to lead the nations in wealth and achievement; to foster international good will, and finally to succor worthy citizens of all lands. el or no proper provisions made to . protect home industry under existing world conditions, this country would not long survive an economic crash that would not only rend her own industrial structures, but bring tumbling down upon the heads of the protagonists the entire industrial machine of mad-anxie- ty - up-to-da- te, (list Ig tUat fl(l (luilici brigh ft cc J. off Thus it is that those who clamor for dominate Americas market by Europe and Asia, are as surely workin their own downfall as they are for economic disaster to the U States. the world. dense functi burn 1 lW e flu i why mt to tl jat the INTERNATIONAL CACOPHONY AND COMMUNIST GRUMBLING GROWS STALE. sob-sister- matte l $ j S throng el-ctric ugh to h With what marked avidity and eagerness the American pel sts, horn from the lurid of the turned, recently, pages internationally le-- s sidized press, where front page' articles by Frank H. Simonds, ma )CU ,US 1)S for the host of disgruntled League of Nations adhere Jtu carr s, and the English propagandists, II. G. Wells and and Philip Gibbs, supplant the best news articles of the Associated P and other reliable American press bureaus, to the amazingly lu patriotically tempered annual message of President Harding to Tner congress, requires little stretching of the imagination to clea Jl lit sue visualize. rccrot The American public is surely, definitely and fully fed-u- p this internationalists and communistic stuff, which leads one n; ;T rator to depict a miserable economic cessation of the worlds civili; ip5 Since tion unless the United States espouses some form of super-govi ment in which Europeans and Asiastics would hold the big balan of power; and another to dispair of the future unless this nati forgives and forgets all foreign obligations and becomes not only t mentor, but the payee and provider for all the big and little Eur pean countries, now shot to bits by reason of graft, selfishness ai inordinate ambitions for more power. Next comes Sir Philip Gibbs, who is doing a good work in plafcltnd off ing the alarming conditions of Russia before the world, yet he is aklrm of avowed League of Nations supporter and believes that the Unitelr. 11a States has signally failed in its duty to humanity in not entering th;i cense enslaving predicated upon forces enmeshed in gree men and devised to give the whip hand to decadent empires in worli i rety affairs. It President Harding sounded the keynote of Simeon pure Amer icanism in his congressional message. Likewise, he made know what he considers essential for the welfare of the nation in the day? to come, in the way of tariff and tax legislation. He laid particular stress upon the necessity for an American Valuation plan, a most vital tariff measure, if this country is to regain its wanted prosperity in the family of nations and hold its prestige as a manufacturing center second to none, under existing international exchange cmidi pen-wield- er free-trader- er super-federatio- n, tions. In the face of all the insidious foreign propaganda being slipped over on America through the international press, it is really a bit cheery and quite encouraging to turn, if only for a few brief minutes. from this sort of palaver, to the perusal of a straight-forwarconcise, trenchant and vivifying American speech by the chief executive of the land. d, no LETS TALK A nv LITTLE SUNSHINE. Perhaps we know of about 822 places we would rather the good old winter time than in Salt Lake but, perhaps, 1c tl b we dont. V e rise in the morning, and like the Jap, go out to greet great orb of day, just spreading its glorious effulgence over the i of the Wasatch mountains. But our thoughts are sans Mikado, elderstatesmen, and sans anything pertaining to nationality, liena or racial dogmas; and filled only with the thought that Old Sol shi as bright and as radiant over Salt Lake and its environs, as it sliii an) where else, we trip down town and slit the smoke screen in tw as a cheese knife pares the yellow from the green. ti u :,s e. es m |