Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-07-30
THE WOMAN'S DOLLAR
Why the Housewife Should Stud,
the Tariff.
EFFECT ON HER HOME LIFE.
Protection Makes Her Pay Double For
Her Household Supp!ies-A Question
That Demands the Attention OF the
Center Sex.

THE following article. by Edward H.
Bailey. was published in the JoAAsioWn
tI'a) Democrat ana WAS awarded the
br.ze for April by the tariff reform com
mittee of the Reform club. T.is commits
tee offers monthly prize of - for jl'
best tariff reform article and the ) ...
.nount for the best tariff reform c.:. ...,.
FOR particulars address the committc. -
= Broadway, New York;
'i'he average man Il homes; AMI ,: las
his dollars in honest ioi b.. the !; -
erlge man is nor Il safe SIwHler. H.
.;noWs that his wife can buy more f.,
IL dollar than he can She Is the e
e.uor of the household size buys &c..
,hp foodstuffa She buys tlt Stuc..ln'r;
and shoes and wearing apparel for t..t
dig and the little in the family. She
buys the furniture. the pictures. the
bric-a-brac. the flowers and the plants
and the hundred and one things that
so to make up the elegance and the
comfort Of the home. 1t has ever been
THIS because from the very beginning
she has manifested "A higher conception
OF the art Of spending the dollar than
the Llan.
Yet with all her skill in buying the
necessities Of life the average woman
does not seem to realize that sordid
man has given her very serious
handicap IN the protective tariff. Were
it not for the tariff she could buy for
80 cents what now she must pay 81
to:, EIr"y time s'he goes to the store
with the purpose Of buying just AZ
much as he can for Il dollar there il;
Il concealed thief who tilciies 50 cents
of the hundred she spends. The ~
cents does not go to the storckeeper
He Is the forced collector of it. In the
process Of FINAL settlement with the
tariff protected trust manufacturer the
storekeeper pays the so cents over to
him.
So we would say to the housewife.
who Is the most economical Spender in
the world, that She is vastly concerned
in the tariff question. We fancy that
II she should study the tariff as she
studies the markets she would be
ileard from against that great iniGuity.
for 1t Is just as certain as the fixed
stars that she Is u constant victim OF
the tariff. A part OF every penny she
spends goes as tribute to some trust
Would 1t not be the part of wisdom
for the woman with the ,ollar of tar
man to give Il share of her attention
to the effect the tariff has on her
daily life? 1t Is very refreshing To
know that many noble women h..Ar
given their attention to the question.
with the result that they have re t.
regard the tariff rs the thief that this
paper always has deS riled it to be
and still insists that it is The late
Susan Il. Anthony. admittedly one of
the greatest women of modern times.
scnthingly arraiGned the tariff as Il
robOer and very large uunl,er of
her disciples are carrying on the cru
SADIE she So ably began There ;I'
living today many of the admirers ui
the late Belva Lockwood and OF llelen
NJ. Cougar. two of the noblest women
in the world who. while contcndi
for the rights of women us citizens.
are not forgetting to show that the
tariff Is Il curse 10 the race. Another
notable example of woman's dev ton
to IL great cause is Ella Wheeler vii
cox. poet and philosopher. who Tor
many years has assailed the tariff with
all the force of her mind. The list Of
such srlenGi !. thoughtful woinc" lli@h.
be multiplied. hCt II is Eot nevesa,r i.
In this article II Is enough to know
that the tariff question Is Il growing
one in the ranks " the gender sex.
Since ii concerns them 50 deeply there
are abundant rel"ons Why the tariff
should attract their attention.