Show TARIFF LESSON O O. O a 9 By L L. A A. eck I ITh Th There re should be a si small all tariff pa on j so that duct would cost the same in AmerIca AmerI- AmerI ca home product Th t protects protects' laIi home labor r bitt how the the tariff o on wooi Ci a pound o oatmeal gents nt o 1 hundred handed butter butterS S S cents n pOU pound d eggs S 8 cents a dozen and nd l a lot of other things that have havo a high tariff upon and that are selling for higher prices abroad than at home The tariff Injures our prices for T products And if le sella lr a little lower a than at bonne bome then for the producer Ule pf price e is depressed and to the tru t. t raised raised rais- rais ed because of the t thrift a and ld the die con sumers have to to- pay the hIgh prices and the trusts t l' lire i glut ng the big pric prices s and the government lent gets nothing because the tho foreIgn product is not shipped to us and hence there is n tariff to pay par but the trusts tet ket flip th big biJ I This has the ot- ot feet tec tot crushing out out competition p and when competition is crushes out the big trusts manage through the interstate commerce commerce- commission and the public utilities l commission of the various states to bold up tb the prices so that the tho big can business get big prices and flake inake the th public pay It ft and because of the high tari ft aided by the ut utilities s itic-s commissions You wj will notice that automobiles arE cheaper than they were Automobile Automo- Automo bile Industries are not in the trusts trust There is plenty or of competition and I l spite pf ta I n teral the n in the production of au brIngs the prices down downto to where they ought to be Competition Competition Compe- Compe is th l t. t l g God re- re rep rep- ot of sa k 1 S tt t During J re trade In It so happened in spite spit of of ii 1 r rr because i x e shipped nothing i in and everything went out and we were paid the cash or Ol It i fe rt ll and a n gov- gov O borro dd d l from u and then bought goods from lr in its vitI us-vitI our own wn money t in Wood Woodrow row Wilsons Wilson's draft dr ft of he le gt or of Nations art 23 sub stilt sec J V. V was the following I n bers of at the League make pi secure and aI fe freedom dOnl ot of communication o and 0 of indo equitable for tor th the cons cons- ni e. e league That Is s big ig fight started against Wilson and le The Tha big bg te fellows ow who ho had had special privileges ancl still t fit Ai ted to ref re re- f them saw that I possibly equi equitable r table tle treatment r for r the c commerce mme ce ceo o of aU all members of the league might n ight mean me n that the league would give everybody a square square deal on on the tarIff and immediately a roar went up front the protected trusts lusts who were Wele d determined to continue to rob the common people and they jumped jump jump- ed onto Wilson Wils-on and the r league gue with the ferocity ferocity- of a 3 Dengal tiger inthe wilds of India Backed by unlimited money stoney t they lCY controlled the most or of the great great- papers 1 and lied and lied and succeeded In the majority ma- ma of the people that tb the l league c was a great Ire r menace because It H dared n nn n to meddle with the profits the of-the ot the gre great t trusts and when 31 prominent Republicans like C C. C W W. Eliot Eliot W W. I 11 Taft Charles L. L Hughes Hughe Herbert Hoover and J f. Laurence Lowell president of Harvard university IC- IC dared for the league they were to put in the platform ot of the Republican party in 1920 a plank for Cor the association of nations nations' na- na only to break it and l lately tolY J J. J Laurence Lowell Lowell and the th signers g ers of th the Republican protest protest insincere his were accused of being Vcr answer was was' that they were ere not no f Insincere In insincere in- in sincere but that they they were misled They Ther and the thc rank and file ot of the Republicans w IC sincere sincero but the big trusts for the time great groat dailies j and and magazines ot of the country to cIr clr- false Calse and propaganda ganda that the league was an attack upon the sovereignty so of if this nation And many men In high some places Rep Republicans and soi lc Democrats Democrats for place and power ann ana gome ome of them th-cm backed by the tho big trusts camouflaged the Issue hustle and amI the league for the tho time was beaten not ot because of f the league loague that was the tho but because he- he cause or of the tariff protected the big trusts rind and gave them a chance to continuo continue to rob the people t of f this country tho big were afraid tho league would take awa away their big Jg graft by I reducing y s' s s'S the t tariff S and l leave S e SS the of it with the people where ht It justly ly belongs I TILE TUE An o old d negro went to tn the ol office ce of the of oC registration In a. a town and applied for tor registration reg- reg papers What Is your o r Haute asked the official George Washington WaS the rep re- re p ply Vell George are you ou the man Who vho itt down the tho C cherry ler y tree No still suh I aint de man I aint done no work for nigh onto a year ear f Exchange |