The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-10-10
IPT TARIFF OBJECT LESSON;
HOW THE PARTIES DIFFER

o,,,ook: In q rural town not q
...ared miles from New York City
100 was, thirty years ago, an aban.
...sd wooden mill. Clustered about
vere a dozen empty cottages. No
worked in the mill; no one lived
the cottages. The place was
,cvn as 1.-THE deserted village" and
inner boarders were accustomed to
- 1t. as the one curiosity in the
adnity. Some English capitalists
I'VE bought the mill and established
mccessful carpet factory which EN-.
.,cm five or six hundred men and
somen. The empty cottages are
nd. More than q hundred new cot.
.ees have been built. The road
are than a mile in length, from the
merted village to the neighboring
rage rs lined with attractive homes.
Il the now united villages, (which
have become practically one village, a
al real estate company has been
hmed to erect cottages for newcom-
a and it is difficult to build them
II enough. A local bank has been
stsblished. A new schoolhouse has
zen built, and already the people
~ beginning to question whether 1t
lin not all have to be used for pri-
lazy and grammar school grades and
mother be built for high school pur-
pses One church, which had been
handing empty, has been reopened;
n another church, where formerly
0e Sunday school had possibly two
rore of scholars, the Sunday school
pom is crowded. The village stores
| d thriving business. A village i'm
xovement society has bought an old
bcuse with revolutionary memories
| nd converted it into a social center.
boys scout movement has been in
shted. There is no movement of
Town life which does not show i'm
poyement.
A large proportion of these five or
| u hundred employees have come to
|C-- from England and Scotland.
| They have come because the English
capitalists could not import the car
| PETS II they were woven in England
Without paying America for the priv
| Hege of importing them, and they
| could import the carpet weavers The
workers. families have come with
hem. They have to be housed, hence
| The cottages; to be fed, hence the
usde for the grocer and butcher and
chicken farmer; to be clothed, hence
the business of the tailor; their chill
dren are to be educated, hence the
new school house; they worship,
hence the added prosperity of the
Aurches. 1t is true that the price
diving has increased since the car
pet factory came to c.. The vii
hgers pay more for their meats and
houses and clothing and rent. There
"a good deal of complaint because
Of the high cost of living. But it
would be difficult to find any number
Lot villagers who would wish to go
back to the lessened population, the
diminished trade, and the smaller
school house, even If these were ac-
companied with the lower prices of
twenty-five years ago.
The object of a protective tariff is
% do for the United States what it
mas done for the town of c.. 1t
creates a diversified industry and
orngs the producer and the consumer
loeether. Mr.. Wilson, i'm a speech to
me farmers, has told them that they
set no benefit from the tariff, be-
cause America does not import farm
PRODUCTS, and therefore the farmer
uoes not need to be protected from
lofedgn competitors. But the benefit
70 the farmer does not come from the
exclusion of foreign competitors. 1t
tunes from the fact that the pur-
'nasers for his products are brought
% MS door, and he has not to pay
or transportation of his products
'cross the ocean in order to find a
Enterprising towns recognize this
hanciple. 1t is not uncommon for a
own to offer to capitalists a site
or their factory free of expense;
ometimes the people add bonus
subscribe for stock. in order to