THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912.
PAGE THREE
OME PLAIN TALK
ON THE TARIFF
lie need 01 sanity as well as
Honesty Now Demanded.
EADLY PARALEL ON T. fl
rn 11 ret tin 4 r CUntti Til i V Dm
Act as a Revenue Producer Had a
Beneficial Effect, While the Wilson
Bill Spread Havoc Among Our Do-
mestlc Industries Government Un
der Republican Rule Only Safeguard
Against Return of These Conditions.
By THEODORE JUSTICE.
There is not now, nor has thero
nnim In mil fn-l(Y in..' flf nmtfcn tin
riff lnw ic ,irrfr.nf Thn Pnvnn nni
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ts, and Is probably as near perfect
any tariff law wo shall ever pro-
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iii ueuaubu il couiu uo so unu ro-
uld not bo ilonn without Ininrv tn
Human ingenuity could not framo
auiL liltt lll.ll. nuuiu Dull UtUlUUUJ,
(i il wii riu lsnn Tim ijiriii nnw ninrn
mil iuwmuu u buuiu ui&saiiaiieu
well, on the whole, that even load-
Democrats acquiesced in it until
rred to activity by political aglta-
O UJ UUU UM1U lUYlBlUIl UUWI1
r.1 fnr tlinir rwn Koltlah ndvnntnpn
views upon the matter, and they
to the effort that when a tariff
now. it oucht not to be disturbed.
ess tho benefits tn result from n
miro win TTinTiiinsriv m iwdipn I n o
.a-i tuomciiL iiuuQuvmia cuuivai III'
uusiness uunng nis term is snown
nullum ill mil pjrv w tiuki enn rv
honesty will make a public man
f . . I I C . 1 . . I . . I
u. ittui uitin ! uiuiu ui luuuaiii
ntlfnlilo vlolnnfinr frf .1-11.1
a ui uiiiuab auu uioi;uuit rill,
wild agitators against the existing
er, the men who preach debtruc-
K inr wnni rnnv inrnnn Tn rioorrnr
I'll.. 9f.nnnr,,x i. ... t .... - . ..
the existing evils all these men
the most dangerous opponents of
reform. If they get their way they
lead the people into a deeper pit
i any into which they could fall
er the presont system.
'are of tho wago earnor, the wel-
of tho tiller of the soil, and upon
e depend the welfare of the entire
on "
the ex president could have seen
self as ho is now in 1912 his words
would have been prophetic.
lose who advocate reciprocity In
that we must invite importations
o wish to Increase our exporta-
. frM. n i t . i . ,
l iiu ntiiiicK Hiuiwmir tiir npriin
merce of this nation, disprove this
rtion.
icy urge that if wo place tho tariff
iomo articles sufficiently low to
re a greater influx of foreign goods
doors of trade will automatically
to us, and wo will have an abun-
OUtlet. but an exninlnntlon nf tho
rds shows nothing to justify this
a.
iver has thero been a period of
tariff that has not resulted In less
nations, nor a period of high
that has not resulted in larger
rtations. This Is because when
people aro prosperous, as they
today under tho Payne-Aldrich
act, they buy everything in sight
send abroad for more,
len they are suffering from tho
ts of tho tariff for revenue only,
om unwiso reciprocity, they aro
le to consume, and therefore lm
little lenevor tho American people buy
woolens, and their iron and steel,
their articles of every-day con
tlon abroad, American producers
nRP nrtiplou nrrt n,,f nf mr1n..
, and our consumptive capacity Is
eu to a minimum.
uanner in laritt k-u nn
hrm mnntha nftoi- ihn wnfe o ...1
s commltteo of the house of rep
tatlveu begins to revise tho tariff
o iineH recnmmonnp.i tiv wnrwi.
Vllson and Chairman Underwood
toms of a financial panic will ap-
which may be a worse panic
any this nation has over known.
Is because wages and tho stand-
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i nniiB miuuBii mo jung penou
otinding prosperity have reached
heights that they would now
further to fall to tho free trado
man over Deroro.
alilng of tho attacks upon tho
tho vice presidential nomlneo
o Pomnnrntlr ttnlrrtf enva "If la
.---.- .. . . W t ..... V. fa J I, . ti
t mainly owing to tho fact that
11 some products in foreign mar-
at lower nrlces than wo obtnln
em at home." This seems to act
i red flag to a bull, and tho
can neonie seem not to ttniinr.
that while our Industries aro so
lated by tho tariff at times thero
bo moments of over-production,
ur surplus has then to be sold In
n markets at whatever it will
fetch thoro. This process of running
full tlmo, even at tho risk of producing
a surplus, choapons products to tho
American consumer, for if our mills
mule only tho goods that could bo con
Bumod at homo, tho cost-Jo tho Amorl
can consumors would Co lncroasod.
For Instance, a groat Amorlcan carpet
mill when running full timo, will
mako moro carpets than can bo sold to
tho American people, but by doing bo
tho cost of production Is lessened, for
tho reason that fixed charges aro tho
samo when thoy run throe-quarter
tlmo ns when thoy ran on full time.
Assuming that by running three-quarter
tlmo they could mako all the car
pets thoy could sell In tho United
States, tho cast por yard under theso
circumstances would bo increased 6
cents, whereas, by running full tlmo
tho cost per yard Is decrcasod 5 centa
to tho American consutnor. Tho un
salable surplus portion Is d inn pod on
the Loudon market and sold thero at
cost or loss. This Immediately Bets up
a howl on tho part of thoso Ameri
cans who nre seeking an excuso to rip
open the tariff, because wo soli cheap
er abroad than at home.
Europe Has Two Schedules.
nut Secretary Shaw calls attention
to the fact that Europe encourages the
maintenance of two distinct schedules
of prices. A higher one for their do
mestic or homo consumption, and a
low.'r one for export. Ho says thero
is s.arcely a manufactured article In
all Luropo that cannot be purchased
from 10 por cent to 25 per cent cheap
er for export to the United States
than for domestic consumption in the
countries of production. Ho quotes in
confirmation of this George Paish, edi
tor of the London Statist, tho groatest
economic journal in Europe, who was
Mr. Shaw's guest in this country.
Secretary Shaw introduced him to
an audience that he was addressing
and Mr. Paish sat on the platform. In
the course of tho discussion Secretary
Shaw made tho assertion that every
European government except England
encourages the salo of merchandise
abroad at lower pricos than at home.
He added that he was not certain as
to tho attitude of England, and re
ferred tho question to Mr. Paish, who
promptly replied that "England does
not encourage It, but tho British poo
pie practice it." Americans alone, of
all the people in the world, complain
that goods are sometimes sold abroad
cheaper than at homo. Those who do
the most harm in theso attacks upon
the tariff in unsettling business are
Republicans, who profess to believe
; in the principles of protection, but who
are led through ignoranco to denounce
its practical application.
Comparison of present f. o. b. mill
prices with domestic and export prices
on iron and steel in the principal pro
ducing countries:
Rails.
Percentage of
Homo Export Differ
Country. Price. Price, ence.
Great Britain. $31.50 ?25.00 20.97
Germany 30.00 24.00 20.00
France 31.00 25.50 18.00
Austro-Hungary 31.00 25.50 18.00
Belgium 30.00 24.00 20.00
United States. 28.00 $25- 2C.C0 7.8C
Structural Material, Including Shapes,
Plates, Bars, Angles and Tees.
Percentage of
Homo
.Country. Price.
Great Britain. $1.G0
Germany 1.50
France 1.C5
Austro-Hungary 1.50
Belgium 1.55
United
States $1.00- 1.70 1.40- 1.50 12.12
Note. The above is a copy in part
from pago 292, "Hearings beforo tho
Commltteo on Merchant Marino and
Fisheries, of the Houso of Represen
tatives, on Senate bill 529."
The Payne Act as a Revenue Producer
Tariff revision downward and reci
procity caused such a deficit in the
revenuo during Grover Cleveland's
administration that wo wero obliged
to sell $2C2,000,000 bonds to defray tho
current necessary oxpensos of tho gov
ernment Duties had been cut down low In or
der to invite heavier Importations, or,
in other words, reciprocity was put
into practice on competitive products,
and while thero was enough brought In
under tho "Wilson act to paralyze our
domestic Industries, and throw mil
lions or mon employed therein out of
work, thoro was not enough Imported
to furnish sufficient revenue, and a
deficit had to bo met by tho salo of
bonds. This created distrust, and
thero was a financial panic every year
during tho existonco of that tariff act,
and, savo tho Roosevelt panic of 1907,
thero has been nono Binco tho protec
tive tariff act was enacted in its place.
Is this any reason for its repeal?
Why Gamble With Prosperity?
As tho Philadelphia Inquirer has bo
well said:
"This country is moving along a
courso of groat prosperity. Why
change it from that course?
"At Washington thero is a Republi
can administration which believes that
Amorlcan Industry, which involves tho
payment of wagos to employes, should
bo protected, at least sufficiently to
defend tho wago earner against tho
cheap labor of Europe, Why chango
that Republican administration and its
policy?
"Tho Democratic party quarrels with
that policy. It declares all protection
to bo "unconstitutional." Its candidate
for president Is a free trader and
frooly declares that thoro should bo
'radical reductions' of tho tariff sched
ules. But under Republican rule tb.6
mills are open, prosperity is pro
uouncod throughout tho country, and
why take chances under a party which
tvould proceed to demolish tho pro-
Export Differ
Prico. ence.
$1.35 15.C0
1.25
1.45
1.35
1.40
$1.3
1C.GG
12.00
10.00
11.30
toctlon that Republicans bollovo to bo
the reason for that prosperity?
"Thero Is a third party tho Third
Term Partyof a sclf-socker. Mr.
Roosovclt proclaims tho Republican
party to bo n mere sholl nnd to havo
outlived Its usefulness. Ho is not in
terested In tho tariff. At least for
seven years as president ho was not.
Ho has a suit caso flllod with patent
remedies nnd ho offers them to tho
poople, not to give them prosperity,
for that Is already hero, but to con
fuso thorn and to lead them into tho
devious paths which ho is treading. Ho
cannot produce prosperity. Tho Re
publican administration has ino that.
He cannot bettor their condition In
any shnpo or manner, but ho may
very easily rend their prosperity and
bring about a social and financial rev
olution. His one thought Ib power. Ho
places porsonal ambition above all
el so.
"Now, tho people of tho United
States know what they havo. They aro
prosperous. Agnlnst this prosperity
thero Is offered tho gambler's chanco
with Wilson or Roosevelt.
"Why gamble with prosperity?"
SPARKLESS WIRELESS
INVENTED BY A FRENCHMAN
AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Eatato of
Frederick DIorolf.
Notlco or Audit: Notlco Ib horoby
given that Homor Greeno, an auditor
duly appointed by tho Orphans'
Court of Wnyno county to pass upon
exceptions filed to tho account of W.
S. Harvey, administrator or the above
named estate, will attend to tho du
ties or his appointment at his office
in tho borough of Honcsdalo, Mon
day, Sept. 23, 1912, at 10 o'clock a.
m. HOMER GREENE,
Auditor.
August 28. 1912. 70 w3
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WHEN THERE
IS ILLNESS
Said Also to Make Wireless Telephones
Practicable.
The Paris Matin announces thnt a
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than 5200,000. Bethenod's discovery
also makes wireless telephony still
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oscillations per second can bo produc
ed, while the human voice can go to
20,000 vibrations. By spnrkless wire
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