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Show THE CITIZEN 4 it remains our bounden duty to elect a man to the senate who will represent Utah and the United States. And in the language of Senator McCumber, sponsor of the senate tariff bill, permit us to say that if adjectives were shells, I think the gentleman from Utah (Mr. King) would be the most terrific broadsider on the face of the earth. PRO-BRITIS- LOBBYING. H Some few weeks ago The Citizen called attention to the lobby which British merchants and British accredited representatives maintain in Washington, in order to keep a weather eye on our American tariff bill. At that time we explained that we were more interested in keeping American for the Americans than we were in the tariff and also in the sacred privilege of making our own laws with- out assistance or suggestion from any foreign nation. It is quite interesting to note, however, that while Great Britain and her colonies on which the sun never sets are steadfastly and to the United States, throughout incessantly preaching free-trad- e the British empire and her mandated territories, a tariff wall has been erected against American importations that ascends almost to high heaven. This tariff, which contemplates more than an antiper dumping statute, provides for a flat, specific tariff rate of 33 basic commodities, and this list cent. It is levied on all of basic commodities has been made so comprehensive and so elastic that it includes more than 6,000 different articles of manu-factur1- -3 so-call- ed e. Thus it may be seen that the British empire has easily taken measure and placing itself the lead in framing an exclusion-tarif- f squarely on a high protective tariff basis. In erecting an imperial tariff wall against the influx of foreign made goods, as she had the obvious right to do, she has placed herself in a rather delicate international position when she attempts to foist her own discarded free-trad- e theories upon a land she wants to commercially exploit. If this smudge attitude of the British empire and many other foreign nations in regard to our proposed tariff legislation, could be brought home to the average American voter; if the wild and often unguarded and unreasonable propaganda of foreign nations in their abortive Attempts to shape our national legislation, could be made manifest in all its hypercritical portent to American voters, it is a ten to one shot they would sink the home grown free-trad- e advocates under an avalanche of votes as gigantic and portentive cohorts and as that which submerged Wilson and his headed them in the direction of the upper Salt Creek trail. Tariff facts that the average American voter may never encounter in any of the American daily press, now thoroughly and effectually subsidized by the great importing and retailing mercantile establishments of this country, include the disclosure that on February 7, Great Britain, not satisfied with her imperial economic schemes to protect the empire by means of a high tariff, by an order in council, extended preferential rates of imposed duties on goods produced anywhere within the British empire and imported into any of the slices of territory over which she was given mandate by the Versailles treaty. Such territories include Southwest Africa; the territory of New Guinea; the territory of Samoa. On April 3, 1922, the British government increased tariff rates on imports into Mesopotamia, such per cent. average increase being 33 The American voter has been told truely and often that a protective tariff is necessary to our own economic scheme to adequately protect our big army of workers against the starvation wages paid to European and Asiatic labor; they have been told truely and often that a protective tariff always precedes an era of natipnal prosperity and that to resort to the free-trad- e policies of the Democrats would inevitably sink the industrial mechanism of the country into oblivion and tend to Chinafy our people. And what more conclusive evidences of these dangers to our national life and to our economic stability, are now required, than the action of the British empire and practically all other foreign industrial nations, in protecting their sap-sucki- 1- -3 ng own industrial structures to the limit, while at the same tii to America, and keep up a deafening djn preach free-trad- e world disaster and unpaid war debts if we fail to submit? it over. e NAVAL PACT ECHOS. One of the first and perhaps the most discordant echo Washington conference to limit the building of huge navie from the island empire of the Japanese. The manner in Japs are forging ahead in the construction of light cruisers, d( leaders, destroyer submarines and fleet submarines may yet to plague the United States and other signatories of the f0u pact and eventually strike officials of the great naval powe something akin to the force of a. sledgehammer. The class of ships being; built by Japan do not come wi purview of the naval limitation pact, yet they constitute menace to the survival of the understanding as a whole. It i that the failure to reach an international agreement with rei limitation, fixation or ratio of relative strength, as betw powers, in the matter of destroyers, light cruisers and submari other auxiliary craft, is developing a situation fraught wit consequences. Japan is investing the money she saved by not building ships or giant cruisers, in a monster fleet of submarines, light and destroyers. She has adopted a program cal subs whose exact tonnage rem; the construction of fifty-tw- o known. It is presumed their aggregate will be around 50,01 It is also understood the Japanese are building enough light and destroyers to bring her total tonnage of new naval cons up to 210,000. A recent survey disclosed that Japan had more tonnage ships building and projected than any other power of those pa type of ships upon which no restrictions as to construction! ber were imposed by the conference. From the manner in which Japan has winked at the viol her gentlemans agreement with this country, regarding ii tion, which immigration plan always has and even now, conte the peaceful penetration of the entire Pacific coast region and ition of its most desirable farming sections and the expulsioi whites therefrom, there is little cause to speculate over her regarding an auxiliary navy. . There remains no question in the minds of the people nation that a great step forward was taken toward the attain of tl lasting peace between the great powers as a direct result limitation conference; but the attitude of Japan in investing line, money saved to her because of limitation of ships of the shadi iliary naval ship construction, cannot but cast a deep the situation once considered so promising. A biological feature of the peaceful penetration tactics Japanese who come to this country not readily understood average American lies in the fact that the wily little calculate that each and every Japanese woman they can this country, has back of her a genealogical record of tors and that with ordinary good luck she should have that1 She is more, descendants, in the reaches of time before her. here to produce. And there you are. From fighting the immigration s our ports of entry, from camouflaging their workers as of bring' literary sharks, they have now adopted the policy women to this country to breed a native race of Japanese, l Maikado, M by religion and racial ties to Nippon, and to the civih2 I by divine right, to eventually swamp our western The matter of a few auxiliary naval ships one waj wont have much effect on this crafty Jap plan to svipe most productive and best watered agricultural domains, con actually count in the final analysis of the situation western states, is the passage of the proposed imm'ig1 s limits all immigrants to two per cent of their nation'! sea-goi- a r i I ti ii A tl ng 1 e I1 EE 0 ( r; :t IT k ir it . jf fa XI 0 bi e iv ic ir a: v hi y o c $ 1 0 ll m IC C( I Vi |