Show TIMELY COMMENT T r aji amade MADE IN made in germany w will ill not be a 1 conspicuous label ou on manufactured I 1 goods after the war germans who wall want t to sell their products in in the markets of the world will conceal rather than adverse the country of their origin olean new york herald that is a sample of 0 the knowledge of tiie the average democrat with with respect to tariff matters tile the present tariff law provides that all articles of foreign manufacture or production shall hall be marked stamped branded or labeled in legible english words so as to indicate the country of origin and these markings shall be as nearly indelible as the nature of the article will permit this provision Is taken bodily from the republican law which preceded the present law and it was first enacted by a republican congress because it was vias found that germany in particular bisso vas so marking markine products which she was selling in this country as to conceal the fact that they vere of 0 german origin thus fooling the american by what today w would be termed a commercial camouflage the laniak law makes es it a penalty of r fine i grone or one year of imprisonment prison menti arboth or both bot li tor for violation of the marking proviso but the inclusion bof t tits this canu proviso in ill al democratic Democrat ici tariff law is worth little because thin the law lav itself gives the american market to gai germany terms can 61 6 soa 1 undersell un desell PArne american rican products in normal times time sito overcome the desire of 0 the american purchaser tor for products made in his h home ome country 4 lt you dont believe it look at your shea rs and scissors for instance and having driven the american i manufacturer anu fac from his own market as germany was certainly doing before the war interrupted her herl plans she can raise her prices to a point where she can recoup herself for anything s she be lost in the price cutting campaign the tariff history of the united states Is replete with will instances of this kind in which both germany and england have figured study the campaign which the englishmen of manchester waged against tile the a establishment of textile industries in this country before the republican party put a permanent kibosh on those gentlemen by means of the protective tariff and in that campaign tile the Manchester lans lead by richard cobden had on our r southern cotton aristocracy as their allies whose representatives tod today ay are in charge of our tariff policy and still clinging to the fallacy of the forties it is suggested that the olean ile heril I 1 wine come to life and join with its state in the demand tor for a return to protection to americal Ameri american cap industries for or without it a cold spell Is going to lilt hit chis country atter after the war and ithe the herald editor may have to pad tits his old coat with back numbers of 0 liis life own sunny little sheet every white marx man in mississippi realizes alises re the seriousness of 0 permitting negroes to roam about in the south in the uniform ot of united states army officers thus runs runs a sentence sentence in a vicksburg mississippi despatch to the now york world I liatis there theres serious erlus in this the 1 colored men who iha have e yon won a officers commissions commission in iii the tile national army a ere selected from among their race because ot of superior intellectual they were given the intensive training oi of the reserve officers corps ai at camp dodge des Woi nesi iowa they were commissioned only upon merit and there Is no reason to believe that they will I 1 tail fail to do ere credit dit to the uniform which 11 they 1 ey are entitled to wear that a m hite mississippian ot of democratic aith should find it a serious matter tor for any negro to wear other than overalls and juniper jumper or to carry in his hand any implement more important than a lice hoe may well be believed puts put that there is anthina an thing of real menace in such a thing is 19 ridiculous DECLINES lord northcliffe declines dec linea the ministry ol of munitions in lloyd georges georger cabinet because he does not approve ot or the things that the lloyd george government has done especially poci ally in retaining incompetent i men lui in places pi aces 0 ot r high authority the northcliffe letter of refusal is an illuminating document docu and is of especial interest to america N where here as himself says say s some phases of 0 british procedure have ha had an aa unfavorable reaction lord northcliffe with his newspapers newspapers is reputed to i have made lloyd george prime minister it is hard to jm im agine any ot of the american editors who think they made wilson president declining a cabinet portfolio THE ONE ENEMY next we may war against austria bulgaria and turkey but the war will always be known as the war with germany germany was the aggressor from tie the start germany has been tile the active agent all the time austria would never have bulldozed serbia but for germanys germanas Germ anys approval bulgaria would never have been drawn in but for the lavishness ot of german P promises ro turkey would have kept ou out it but for or germanys germanas Germ anys pressure so no matter has ater how many nominal ene mie swe brithe on the other allies may have bave the one great enemy is and w will ill be germany As the boston boston transcript Puts pu lt we see by the papers that the democratic national committee 1 Is soon 0 meet in paris I 1 last ast marati trotsky was working 0 on a ft a new york newspaper for twelve dollars a a week just now he probably wishes he had that job back again |