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Show THE TARRIF QUESTIONSTILL 1 ISSUE Don't think the tariff question is not an issue. It is more important im-portant right now than the League of Nations.. Wool can not be soi'd because foreign wool is being dumped on our shores free of duty, and yet the Government needs the fifty million dollars that a tariff on wool would provide-. The price of lambs is low because foreign mutton is coming from Australia by the ship load free of duty. Canada and Argentine can pour their wheat into this country without paying any duty, the price of wheat is going steadily down. But the peanuts and rice of the democratic southern states are protected by a tariff. The Woolen and Cotton manufacturers are protected. The most unjust one sided tariff law ever inacted is in existance now. The government must have money or reven.ue to pay the expenses of running the government. The Republican way has been to charge those who came here to sell their goods in competition with our producers, a tariff or tax, and the greater part of the funds needed was collected in that way. Now you have to pay a reven.ue tax to go to the shows or the drug store, if you have to borrow money you have to buy a revenue stamp to put on your note. If you ,get a crate of fruit shipped in you must pay a tax in addition to the freight or express. All of these direct taxes are annoying and in the aggregate amount to considerable during the year. A properly adjusted tariff would avoid that, and not only protect our producers pro-ducers from competition with the cheap labor of the world, but would provide revenue for governmental expenses. If the Republicans win the tariff laws will be adjusted, and all sections of the Country given a square deal. . Why did twenty three Democratic United States -Senators vote against Wilson's League of Nations. Were 'they prejudiced against the Democratic President? Don't you think it took real courage and patriotism to oppose their party leader. Isn't it reasonable to suppose sup-pose they thought their duty to their Country .was higher than their party. In 1916 we were told "Vote for Wilson he will keep us out of War," Now we are told vote for the league of nations it will keep us out of war. It was false then, it is false now.. They tell .us your boys can't be sent to war without the consent of Congress. Wilson sent ihem to. Vera Cruz and to Siberia without the knowledge or consent of Congress. U. S. Senator W. E. Borah says of Article ten: THE CONTRACT OP ARTICLE 10 Article X, if;we join the league, will constitute a contract binding the whole nation and all our departments of government, President and Congress alike, to use if necessary all our wealth and all our man power to preserve and maintain the territorial integrity or existing 'boundaries of every member of the league, regardless of the manner in which the territory was acquired and regar'dless of the aspirations and wishes of the millions of people who may reside on the territory. We agree whenever necessary to see that no people seeking their independence indepen-dence shall have the benefit of any outside help. And when you add to Article X Article XI, there is added the obligation to help crush all and every movement for liberty, even though the people are fighting for their independence, singly and alone, for Article XI covers any war or threat, whether external or internal. In other words, under these articles, not a disturbance, not a conflict, not a war can take place anywhere any-where upon the globe in which we may not be called upon to furnish men and means to settle it. It is a consumate scheme 'drafted with all the suibtley and intrigue- of Eurpean dipomacy to destory the very foundation principles of our foreign policy as announced by Washington and Monroe, for one cannot survive the other, and to make us a part all the radical antipathies and dynastic quarrels and imperialistic schemes of the old world. Now, what is the attitude of Governor Cox as we gather it from his letter of acceptance and his speeches? He declares in effect that if you elect him President he will see to it that this contract covered by Article X and Article XI is made. He will scrap the policies of Washington and Monroe to begin with. He will see to it that the contract when made is executed. As Commannder-in-Chief of the army and navy he will be very powerful to that end. If necessary to send our boys to Europe, in so far as he can under the powers granted him by the Constitution, he will send them. If he ne.e'ds the assistance of Congress to carry out this contract he will urge that Congress stand by the contract and assist him. If the sending of the men to Europe is ostensibly for peace he can send them without any declaration of war as was the case when we sent our boys to Russia. He would need no declaration of war to send our army to Europe or Asia to police, boundaries. In case a declaration of war seems necessary he will demand as your president that Congress act at once. Congress will either have to act with him and declare war or it will violate the nation's contract, prostitute the nation's honor and defy the Commander-inChief of the army and navy.- No Congress has ever yet refused to dclare war when the Commander-in-chief urged it. It will hardly refuse to do so- in the future wdien behind the President's Command is a solemn contract, the violation of which would brand the nation with moral turptitude. Under such circumstances the people would be told should they object that they themselves had authorized these things to be done. Some very able jurists hold that a vote for the League of Nations is a vote against the Constitution of the United States. An Eastern Paper says Woodrow Wilson is the, best President of the United States Europe ever had. (Republican Advertising.) REGISTER ; I It is your E passport to the polls OCTOBER 12 I |