El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-27
THE TARIFF REFORM
ISSUE
BY
Frederic
7. H2skin
CHIEF SLOGAN IN BRITAIN'S CAMPAIGN
VIII-The English Elections

their heads the wrathy demands of the
Liberals that the land in England be
opened to opportunity for small farm
ers.
Black Bread Question.
At the close of the campaign the
whole issue seemed to be centered in
the great black bread question. The
Liberal speakers and press charged that
protection would mean black bread and
hOrseflesh for the workingmen, as is
eaten in protected Germany. Ignoring
the horseflesh. the entire Conservative
campaign took up cudgels in defence
of black bread.
A grocer by special appointment to
his majesty, the king" testified that
the king ate black rye bread. The
Conservative papers all said that what
was good enough for the king was good
enough for the likes of LlOyd-George,
and that that ought to settle it. But
the Radicals kept up the outcry against
black bread and apparently the entire
English public conferred all its thought
on the relative merits of wheat and rye
bread
dumping Shops,
feature of the tariff reform cam
paign was the opening of dumping
shops in various cities all over the
country. An empty storeroom would De
! hired and it's windows filled with all
! all of which came into England rree
! of duty The public was invited, by
placard. to estimate how much British
workmen got for making these Amerl-
! can shoes or these German cooking
/ utensils or this French fabric, and the
7 like. The argument was cllnched- py
placards showing how many jobs would
I be given 10 British workmen at so much
wages if all these things were kept out
! by a protective tariff
These dumping shops" made pow
| erful appeal to the people, and they SET
/ the other side wild with anger and de-
spair There has been long campaign
| of advertising in England in favor OF
| British made goods, and II has had
profound effect. Everywhere one sees
/ appeals for patronage on the patrtotlc
I ground of supporting home industries
/ and employing home labor The dump
/ ing shops" took advantage Of this SEN
/ timent.
Liberals Trick Tories.
| In leicester the Liberals played
sharp trick on the Tories They rented
! the upper story OF the Dumping shop
and covered lit over with placards which
! explained the exhibits in the window
below to be a powerful argument IN
I favor of free trade. The voter might
I stand outside see the foreign goods,
I and then by the two sets Of placards
reach the conclusion that tariff reform
/ would either save or wreck the nation.
! In London one dumping shop" dis
{ PLAYED a chair marked with a card,
! the chair was of a particular sort made
/ only in a factory in the immediate
! neishborhood Workmen from the
i chair factory identified the chair, and
! forced the tariff reformers to take II
! out of the window That particular
: dumping shop" at once fell into dis
/ repute-
Compare Prices.
Almost every Englishnan who has
} been in the United States has written a
& card to the newspapers, some time dur
( ing this campaign, for the purpose OF
; comparing prices in the two countries
/ They were about equally divided in
/ opinion as TO which country has the
, higher prices
| One letter writer said that he had
J lived in the United States with his fam
: ilv for II years, and that while he al
/ ways had his clothes made in England,
because he liked the fit his old London
tailor gave him, yet he had bought a
suit OF clothes in Atlantis for 1915
which was perfectly good. He did not
. give the Atlanta tailor's name and ad-
dress
! OF course. each side has accused the
! other of all shades and degrees of dem
| agogy. perhaps not without reason.
/ The Liberals used hundreds of thou
/ sands Of a leaflet which read, after
/ giving statistics from various countries:
Protection means less wages for a
/ longer days work"
| And the Conservatives counted as a
/ trump card their leaflet, which bore the
J legend: "Dearer baccy. dearer bread,
: dearer living. dearer dead; dearer whis-
1 ky, beer and gin. is what you get when
. the RAIDS. are In" Vote for tariff
/ reform The foreigner pays the tax"
I Tariff campaigns appear to be con-
! Quoted on the same general lines in all
I countries.
| Tomorrow How the Parties Fight