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Show OPEN THE MILLS, NOT PORTS Atraveling salesman, representing represent-ing Studebaker Corporation. South Bend Ind. ' ." "Tod-.'.y the slogan should be: 'Op-e 'Op-e nthe. mills and factories and not the ports. The": is no country in the world where labor ii paid such a high was", where it lives better and dresses better or has more freedom free-dom than in the United States. "If we open our ports for foreign manufactured goods without a Pro-itective Pro-itective Tariff at least equal to the difference between the price paid for labor in this country and the price paid for labor in the foreign countries, coun-tries, it simply means one of two I things: Either that the American workman must come down to the European Eu-ropean wage, or the American factory fac-tory must close and we depend upon European countries for manufactured manufactur-ed products. In either case, our pur chasing power is greatly diminished and traveling salesmen must be will-ling will-ling to accept a lower wage for their j services and fewer of them have po-jsitions po-jsitions than "'under the American ; method of doing business. I do not understand why any traveling sales- man endowed with ordinary sense, I could take any other view of the problem. ' ' -'Eeve-ry traveling salesman learned learn-ed from experience during the low Tariff period--from 1S93 to 189G and again in 1913 and 1914 prior to , the breaking out tf 'the European war, that a low Tariff was not only injurious injur-ious to the traveling salesman biit to every man and woman in the U. S. Theory is one thing and actual results are another. So far as I am concerned, I am more interested in actual reettlts-than I am in any theory." theo-ry." ' |