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Show H AN "EMBARGO" ON WOOL H ' That is What the National Wool Growers B 'Association Demands H An "Embargo" is a prohibition of .the B " sailing of ships from the ports of the H I country etab'fcbing the embargo, or pos- B ibly of sending out certain products H which 'anight be carried in such ships. For H , convenience the terim has come to be ap- B , plied to internal mvments when trans- B - . . portation bcomes congested, but its pro- H , per use is strictly confined to outward B movements. It would be agreat relief to H editors having sme respect for the Aancr-' B ican language if those whose proposals H ) require discusion would stop using thd H word embargo as applied to inward move- B l.lC.llS. H J When the secretary of the National B Wool Growers association says that it is H I -v ' 'v proposed to ask Congress to "place an em- B bargo on.'oreign wool," what the gentle- H ""., onannieans, as appears from the context H , . '' ' is that Congress is to be asked to place a H , C. duty on wool. B Wool has been on the free list since De- B , cember 1, 1913, when that paragraph of B , the Democratic free trade tariff went in- B to effect. That tariff act was signed by B President Wilson, and"" would doubtless B have been voted for by Governor Cox had B , ' he not slipped out of Congress just in B time to say he never did it. Under the B H Democratic platf ortn he stands for keep- B , ' ing wool on the free list. B , . Under the Republican protective tariff B which was superseded by -the Wilson-Cox m tariff the duty was 11 and 12 cents a B ;, ' pound on wool in the grease, which was B ' ' satisfactory to the wool growers of that B day, although more 'may be necessary fl now. H We do not doubt that the wool growers m of the country fully understand that the m only wax by which they can ever get wool 1 off the Tree list is to elect Harding Pres- H ' ident and a Republican Senator for every m vacancy. K That in this state means Samuel M. B .. Shovtridgc. B ' '; , And they also know that as soon as B ," possible after his inauguration President Harding will convene the Republican B . Congress, one of whose first duties will B ' be to restore the time honored Republi-B Republi-B can protective system, which will certain-B certain-B ' ly include an adequate tariff on wool. B It is therefore certain that every wool fl ing and Coolidge, and. every wool grower B . grower in the country will vote for Hard B in California ror Harding, Coolidge and B Shortridge. . . B (The above from the San Francisco B Chronicle. To which we add it means the B necessity of electing Senator Smoot and B Colton and Leatherwood for Congress, and the defeat of Welling, Funk, and Bj Thomas. f n ft B ' PRETTY HEFTY MEN B President Wilson's denunciation of the B opponents of the League of Nations as B "ignorant and audacious" must cause a B F'liile on the faces of people who are fam- B iliar with American historv and surrent B; affairs. Among the men who are oppos- B ' ed to the League of Nations covenant nvn B' 'j , ' men who have had vastlv more experi B! ' once in international affairs than ha ' B; i President Wilson, and anen who havi receiving endorsement after endorsement endorse-ment at the hands of their constituents for the last twenty or thirty years. Neither Neith-er in native ability nor in training is Presidetn Wilson the peer of the men he is denouncing as "ignorant and audacious." auda-cious." H C B . President Wilson has probably forgotten forgot-ten many things he has said on nearly all sides of nearly all questions. is m It is true that our- entry into the league as now constituted cannot operate to change our Constitution, and to that extent ex-tent Mr. Wilson is right. It is "true, however, how-ever, that we cannot enter the league as now constituted without binding our-selves our-selves to violate the Constitution whenever when-ever there shall be a conflict between the league covenant and the Constitution. The only safe way is to stay out entirely. |