The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-03
AMERICA MUST HAVE TARIFF
FOR WORLD USE.
BY JESSIE A. PRICE.

lly and accurately kept is a matter OF
common knowledge, as one can readily
Verify by conversation with those who
handle the carrying trade.
When one must look for an index of
the labor conditions of England is in
the condition and minds of the work
lers.
We may talk about the Declaration
of independence, but find ourselves at
the mercy of unequal commercial and
industrial conditions, that, like build
ing that has been undermined, are
swaying, and may fall, if not properly
supported.
The pressure on the part of Great
Britain has not been apparent until
recently. Now America is beginning
to feel it.
Month after month, and year after
year Great Britain has been pressing
down on her laboring population. Free
trade" and the feudal system kept the
llaborer turning to America to find oc
cupation and home of his own. Free
trade" helped to foster the feudal sys
Item, there being 40 sufficient demand
from a fourishing laboring population
to lead the large land owner to think
it worth while to part with his land
Both the free trade" of England,
and the high tariff of America have
favored unequal conditions, and have
driven and lured the laborer to Amer
Iica. He has come in greater numbers.
Had he come in good condition, we
might now be able to congratulate our
Iselves. But he comes today, and has
been coming for some time, as rank
socialist, If not a secret anarchist. He
lreads visionary books setting forth
Iglorious time to come when all will
be happy and equal; but he has no
settled, practical ideas to back it up.
HE is ''the blind leading the blind" He
Icomes, in many instances, from coun-
tries where freedom is unknown; his
and ignorance. He talks wildly about
the American flag some day waving
above the British flag; and is in dan
ger of putting enmity between the two
! countries, since, on account Of his pre-
vious condition. he brings no patriot
ism with him, no love for the land of
hs birth or sojourn, and expects to
make good citizen in the land of his
adoption. This is not true of all Bri-
tist emigrants today. 1t is sadly true
of large proportion of the British emf
i grants of the poorer class.
/. When one has to defend Great Bri-
! tain from the vituperation Of her own
: citizens, one can feel a sense of salts
4 faction in the thought that there are
t points in business truth, along com
] mercial lines, in which England can
: teach America today, and can feel sure
a that the socialist with some English
training, whether he is of British origin
n or not, turns many warm and kindly
a thought to old England before he is en-
9 tirely initiated into America.
b AS long as some of our citizens are
: in the penitentiary; and as long as we
read signs like this in our good hotels ;
e What whatever you bring into the
t dining-room; it is not at our but your
f risk" we have not yet reached the
t time when socialism is practicable, ex-
g cept, perhaps. in a model city" in the
= midst of great country, where its
/ neighbors are busy apprehending and
: Furnishing its delinquent citizens. and
+ where it has a large area from which
+ to draw only people of high character.
t When we see a model city" over
s flowing with good citizens, until they
f begin to reach all the towns around,
S and are gradually spreading oyer the
+ state we may at last conclude that we
t have found the web that can catch
good citizens and hold them true to a
e straight path.
= The outcasts from all the nations of
7 Europe look to England for place of
e refuge. It is the proper gateway to
j. America. Europe is becoming more
+ peaceful, while Great Britain and
|. America struggle with the Giant of
i Despair" in the grounds of Doubling
t Castle" If is not "By-path meadom, .
that looks pleasant and allurng, but
t the highway of self-control and right
t living that we need to follow.
+ Tariff reform in Great Britain may
enable her to detain the European emf.
e grants until they are sufficiently famil-
/ lar with the requirements of a demo
!, Icratie government to understand their
$ own position, and to exercise the func.
tions of citizenship to the credit of
! both England and America
I, We have a quarantine at Ellis Island
; to keep out physical diseases, where
/ our officials work hard to keep the