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Show II Women Will Decide I Great Tariff Fight H tii 1 Cost of Living Will Jump, Say Democrats; Things I Will Be Cheap, But There'll Be No Work I Or Money to Buy Without Protee- 1 tion, Republicans Counter I J BY CAROLYN VANCE. Special OorrespouaTnt of The Stand-ard-Examlner. (copyright, 1922. by The Standnrd-Hj Standnrd-Hj Examiner.) Bfl , WASHINGTON Juno .0 The inat tariff nght between the Demo-Hfl Demo-Hfl rrats and the Republicans Is not bo fryr fought solely In the halls of con-r'eas. con-r'eas. For the first time In hlstoty Ba being taken to the women voters IHBj bt the country. J ? Republican and Democrat leader! ktjke know that :he Kordney-McCum-fcer tariff bill is lo be the Issue In tht flng-resslonal election this fall, regardless re-gardless of whether It la Ihe law of hc kind by that time or not MUCH PROPAGANDA. I (Therefore n great campaign of education edu-cation for the women on the tariff is iiftd'M- way. Democratic and Republican Republi-can supporters aro flooding the coining coini-ng with tariff and antitarlff propa-fcanda, propa-fcanda, all of it addressed to ihe WO-IflAnd WO-IflAnd anyone who thinks the tariff is bey oriel tho feminine ken has aei fecal thinks a-comin1 U 1 quite the other way around, M'omon :ii-h amazed at man's inability la decide whether a tariff fur revo-io' revo-io' only or u high protective tariff !;. be.-L for the country. The men jvave been stupidly mulling over the oroblem all these years. Now this .ir the women are going to sr.;, what's what, and they'll say it with votes in the November elections. J Both the Republicans and Demo-' ' crats are desperately trying to bring the women around to their respective viewpoints and are trotting out their most telling argument in pamphlet form for use in women's clubs. ARGUMENTS WOBBLY. "Has it occurred to you''" say the Democrats, "that women an the spenders of the nation and will be the first to Object to raising prices due to a Republican tariff?" ' And, has it occurred o you r -! join the Republican, "tin it the Jobs of one and threa-qusirtoi mil Hone 1,1 I women in industry w:ll be ml inhered by a Democratic free trade policy "' But whether the object is to shrink or svell the tariff both argumontfl are suffering from weaic nnees and i general inability to stand on their own feet without wobbling. Tiuj are based on the suppo'ltlnn that won. en believe their own Welfare to be H separate and distini ;t iffair from that of the men. And most of them are aware that it Is not. It is admitted on all sides that thn women will east the deciding vole In determining whether Republican tariff tar-iff legislation shall be. sustained blocked. IN MEN'S INTERESTS Tho Democits are proceeding on the theory that women are primarily housewives, and not farmers, or man-ufacturera, man-ufacturera, and are therefore deeo.y interestsed in the cost of things they must buy and not in the price pi things they have to sell The Repub' licana are trying to put over the idea that, no matter how cheap things may be, if the husbands or the women themselves are out of Jobs they will be unable to buy them. They point out the fact that over halt ol the P60 pie employed in the textile' Industry, which would be chiefly affected by the flood of cheap clothing from Europe, Eu-rope, are women. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair at the Democrat headquarters Is trying to convince the women thai the Repub-' Repub-' lican tariff ' monstrosity," as she terms the Fo r d ney -McC u m bar bill, will send the cost of living kyyrnrk-eting kyyrnrk-eting back to where it was at top notch. She Fays 'it adds 50 per cent to the cost of every market basket and every wardrobe bundle that goej Into the American home. It places a 60 per cent duty on practically ail articles of wearing apparel, cotton, woolen and silk, and a duty ranging from 40 to 30 par cent on all fabrics jnd cloths it taxes the cheapest ,-rlove three dollars a dozen, the lowest low-est priced stockings 70 cents a dozen ;na the coarsest ttndergnrment 40 cents n dozen. Table, household and kitchen utensils are assessed at 50 per cent of their value. It takes corn neal. potatoes, cattle. fresh be f. fresh pork, hams and bacon, milk, eggs arid CQCQanuts from the free list where the Democrats placed them 'n the Underwood law and places them on the dutiable list raising their I'M-e-: to the consumer about 50 per cent On practically all other commodities com-modities entering Into the houso-whVa houso-whVa daily reckoning they havo placed from 40 to 400 per cent tax, . Including wheat, oatmeal, fish, apple, ap-ple, plum", lemons, walnuts. maca-ronii maca-ronii butter, cheese and potiltf) RPPlCT OX COSTS. , ' "Everything we need," she "COU-,j "COU-,j eludes, from the cradle to the grave will be taxed In the Fordney-M Cumber Cum-ber tariff bill, beginning by doubling the taxes on dolls and toys and ending end-ing with ah Increased l.ix of $0 pet cent on tombstones." "We Import very little foodstuffs," counter the Republican leaders, "and If we aiiow Europe to flood this country coun-try with Cheap articles of apparel and household utensils, many mills in this country will havo to shut down. The American manufacturer cannot compete com-pete With the Kuropean mannfac- turer particularly at this stage of the game with European oandJtlons as they are now. ( a woman's hus-! hus-! band Is out of work or she Is out ot i work herself, she cannot keep on buying things, no matter how cheap they are." FLOOD OF PKTITION8. i Retail stores ull over the country are asking women to sign petition. I and they are doing It. Carload! of , these petitions are being dumped a', i the door of congress, registering the protest of women againt the predicted pre-dicted rise in the high cost of Uvln;;, "Which means exactly what a decimal deci-mal point followed by two zeroes means," say the women at the Re-; Re-; publican headquarters. ' You. can always get women and men, too, to sign petitions In favor or agalnsl anything at all. like the Judge found out who unheedlngly signed n petition to ha nor himself before be ing told of the hoax played upon him. J When women have had some more time to study the tariff bill they WlU see that it Is better to protect our people at home from unemployment than to play angel to Europe." , Wlhirh lady shall have tho last say Republican or Democrat only election day will tell. no |