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Show THE CITIZEN S ' i i THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TARIFF. cannot be such a thing as re aiiy-futur- ... , non-partis- in favor of postponing its enactment a year from now or two years from now, or at time.1 In brief, all such persons and , . f. i tariff in the United an because there are in this country two schools of which differ fundamentally and radically as to the proper of a tariff. First, a school which believes tariff ions and scope written merely for the purpose, of providing revenue; sec-- , school which believes that in addition to providing .revenuie, I " i ' should be used as a medium for protecting American industries destructive foreign competition. teping out be no middle ground between these two.posi-Ther- e jjere is and can is and can be no compromisje between free trade, and A tariff is either a protective tariff or it is not. The ction. tratic party has been traditionally the party for tariff for .rev-ilthat is, free trade.. The Republican party, has been the fhich has always stood for a tariff which furnished both rev-- i the government and protection to American industries and This is i , t I 4 . , ' f products. commission created for the purpose tariff would of necessity first riting a to make a decision as to which kind of a tariff it was going to If the com--- a tariff for revenue only or a protective tariff. were divided between these two schools of thought it would diately get into a partisan discussion within its own member-a- s to which tariff it would recommend and propose. ; If the lission were all of the belief in a tariff for revenue only, it ibe solidly Democratic. If, on the other hand, it were all of the in a protective tariff, it would be wholly Republican. In either ese two events it would be partisan to the extreme. - Thereican be It must be either n) tariff commission y partisan one way or the other, or :nrthermore, under any and all circumstances, whatever tariff ariff commission might recommend would have to be submitted econgress of the United States for action. This is mandatory lie under the United States constitution all revenue raising ares must originate in the house of representatives. The house presentatives is its own master. It is selected by the people and a commission direct from the people. Therefore, it is of neces-artisainy so-call- non-partis- an ed so-call- ed non-partis- an m non-partisa- n. bi-partis- an. n. and inevitably, then, any tariff submitted to the house presentatives by any tariff commission would be accepted or ted by the house of representatives according to whether or was in conformity with the partisan belief of the majority of ouse of representatives. If the house of representatives were oiled by Democrats they would, of course, enact a tariff for flgically t If it only, regardless of what any commission proposed. controlled by Republicans they would enact a tariff for proto equally For commission of what 'tie proposed. any cison there can be no such tariff enacted thing.as a k" by the congress of the United States. Any tariff enacted f necessity, by virtue of the fundamental differences between 'o parties, be either a tariff for revenue or a protective tariff. Inst at present the country is filled with clamor raised by so-- i tariff organizations.. All of these organizations all of their propaganda are directed against the enactment at essin of congress of any tariff. Inasmuch as the present tariff a tariff for revenue written by the Democratic congress in nd y bearing the name of Senator Oscar Underwood, of movement looking to the postponement of the enactment ne'v tariff is inevitably and essentially a Democratic campaign t because if it were successful it would leave the country Je present free trade tariff act. citation of tariff organizations is by free trade interests There is nothing unusual about this. abvays been so. All tariff movements a"a)s projected and carried on by those who believed trade. These jj? tariff organizations and alleged Uak organizations who arc in favor of postponing the a protective tariff at present, would be just as ardently regardless non-partis- non-partis- an an 5 Ala-l,an- non-partis- an so-call- ed l5 non-partis- so-call- ed ln-c- 1116111 non-partis- an - - - pro-tecti- ng A TWENTIETH CENTURY WONDER. It has been held that in constructing the automobile man had about achieved the ultimate invention designed solely for the specific advancement of the race. Then came the flying machine and another milestone on the highway of mans ceaseless effort to solve the riddles of the universe and bring all things within the purview of economic possibilities, was passed. Present scientific and some considerable industrial interest is ' But' the centered in the new toy known as ' the nucleus of this wonder device is a little glass tube, the size of a tiny pill bottle, which any radio fan may carry in his vest pocket. Yet all the great and near-gremagicians of the electrical world, including Edison, Marconi and De Forest, strove manufully to discover this little, simple thing, with a fine tungsten wire, a spiral wire and a metal plate called in electrical and parlance the transparent tube which is really a vacuum tube with the wire settings and the metal plate contained within the vacuumized space. A very simple combination, surely ! And what will it do ? It will multiply sound as you multiply numbers, only faster than the fastest multiplying machine. By means of this tube, President Hardings voice was multiplied more than a thousand times when he delivered his inaugural address. The function of the transparent r raditi-telephon- e. at radio-telegraph- ic , tube is to catch the vibrations coming to it over a lead-i- n wire and pass those vibration along, the same in quality, but with an added volume of energy. For instance one tube will multiply a given vibration ten times, two tubes increases it a hundred times, and three tubes steps it up to a thousand times its original force. Apparently it is not impossible to magnify a delicate sound up to a billion times given the required number of tubes. The present interest in this device is limited to its use in that marvelous new toy the broadcasting and receiving set. Without this. tube broadcasting would be impossible.- It catches the faint energy spread in all directions by the sending machines and mysteriously magnifies it until it becomes as loud as the original sound, and sometimes more so. The ultimate possibilities of such a revolutionizing device can hardly be visualized by even those skilled in electrical lore. Its inventor, Carl C. Hansen, uses it in a device which enables a ship to move through a crowded harbor in a fog without a pilot because the ships captain can hear everything that is going on all around that harbor for miles in all directions. In another device it amplifies sound to such an extent that deaf persons are made to hear, if there is any power of hearing left to them at all. Mr. Hansen, who is not aligned with the futuristic element in any sense is, however, impressed with the great possibilities of his tube and believes he may eventually hear plants grow and even listen to chemical changes take place in matter. And all this from so simple a contrivance! What further marvelous things, equally simple in construction and with just as great un- potentialities, await mans discovery, only the future years may , radio-telepho- ne - fold. n non-partis- l an organizations are against a protective tariff at any time. The American working man and the American farmer in common with the American manufacturer and the American business man should face the fact that a tariff is an economic impossibility. They should refuse to let others deceive them into believing to the contrary. They should no longer deceive themselves if they have been misled into such belief. The people of the United States must decide which they wish a tariff written for the- purpose of American industries and those who are employed in the industries or whether they wish a tariff written for the purpose of inviting a: flood of foreign-mad- e goods into this country. y, . jean e an It appeals that if we had a 'little less talk from employees and employers and more action, the man out of work, including the man, would be far better off. ex-servi- cc : |