Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-02-16
EOLEYS CL....Gllg;} LAXATIVE
FoP STonAcn laouutt and coHsr,Pktion
A Breeder of Anarchy.

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Valley News.
Washington. Feb. 15.-While 30,
| 600 men, women and children mill
workers at Lawrence Mass. were out
of work because of strike to pre-
vent cut in their Sc, 81 and SIS n
weekw ages. Mrs. Evelyn Walsh Me-
Lean, mother of the baby that is heir
to 500, 600, 900, gave II $35, 900
dinner to so guests ut Washington,
the nations capitol.
The hostess at this banquet wore
diamonds that actually cost more than
half n million dollars.
In her her hair was displayed the
famous Hope diamond, which cost
$3.50, 900, and at her throat another
widely celebrated gem, "Star of the
East, " which was even larger than
the Hope diamond.
The cost per plate at the Mclean din
ner was $500. One item in the ex-
pense was $4,000 yellow lilies i'm
ported from abroad at cost of So
each.
One of the highect paid mill wor-
kers at Lawrence would have to work
sd years to receive the cost of that
banquet. The earnings of dozen
Lawrence workers for half century
would not have purchased the gems
worn by Mrs. Mclean. A Lawrence
worker would have to labor 20 years
to pay for the yellow lilies alone.
The strike of the men, women and
children at Lawrence, and the 500
plate dinner in Washington. is stri-
king example of conditions existing
under a system of excessive protec-
ton in the year of our Lord 1912.
Neither the Lawrence strike nor the
f35. 600 Mclean dinner aie ,xcel-
tions. They are but samples of many
similar illustrations which could be
cited if space pr. mittcd. Only recent
~, VIM. NJ. Wood. the heud of the
WOODEN uust, whose employees are
now on strike ut Lawrence, was
arrested for Knocking down and run
hing vovei n pedestrian with his aut-
omobile. When ariaigncd in court he
was asked how many automobiles he
Iwned, and he replied he didn't
know. Imagine man so rich he
doesn't know how many autos he has
III hand
Fortunes whicn make it possible
for one woman to wear half million
dollars worth of diamonds at one
time, and which enable man to
possess so many automobiles he can
not keep track of them, necessarily
come through the power to place n
price on the things which the common
people must have in order to live.
1t is significant, in this connection,
that the tariff, the cost of living,
500 plate dinners-everyth thing but
the worKingman' wages-have in
creased hand in hand, revealing the
intimate relationship of one to the
other.
The word "tax" should be substi-
tuted for the word tariff" The
people would then understand the
question better. Fewer people would
then accept the protectionist theory
that the way for them to increase
their prosperity would be to increase
the tax on everything they eat, wear
or use. To use the word "tax" in
stead of tariff" would be to make
the protection appear ridiculous to
the wage Garner. Instead of saying
the tariff on WOOL" it would be
better to say 1.-The wool s.,tax," or
the sugar tax" or "the implement
tax, the Sewing machine tax, !"
etc. The word tariff is ...deceiver.
But the people know what tax is.
They know they pay it themselves.
The word tariff has certain ring to
1t that sounds like it was paid by
some third party.