The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-21

winch VIII guarantee tariff revision
downward and more value of the dol
lar. The huge stone room is crowded
all day In the list of articles on ex-
hibition is one of the sewing machines
that sells for $500 in Mexico, and
calls for $4,000 in this country Quite
colncidental is the fact that the place
OF the exhibit is within easy view of a
certain sewing machine manufacture
er's sky-scraper, which runs up near
nifty stories high, and is one of the
big sights of the town; an object
specimen of the protecting value of
! the tariff to the manufacturer
But, as stated, the sewing machine
which threatens to stir up as much
trouble for the tariff barons as old
Mrs. OLeary's COW caused to the city
OF Chicago, is only one of vast num-
Der of exhibits, all labeled with the
price that foreigners pay to our manu-
facturers for them, together with the
price that tariff protection" enables
own countrymen. Very near the sew
own countrmen. Very near the sew
ing machine, for instance, is a type
writer which sells in this country for
100000 and can be bought in any
European country for $500, a differ
ence in favor of the foreigner of $500
on each machine, over the price that
the United States made affair is sold
for to our own countrymen. On con-
venient tables are such life essentials
as shovels, spades, hammers, saws,
chisels, trowels and bolts, with the
prices charged to our own people and
those, far less, that the foreign buy
er pays, Take a standary cooking
stove to illustrate-the American pur-
chaser pays $4,000 for it, where the
American manufacturer makes to the
foreign trade a price that enables the
foreign consumer to get it for $500.
These differences exist in nearly
everything that the family or the |
and the housewife needs |
Churns, corn shelters, garden plows, |
all farming implements, Florida water,
bay rum, hair tonics for the bald head |
ed ones; talcum powder for the !
babies; manicure implements; all are
shipped abroad, delivered, at prices
less, in all cases, considerably less.
han they can be bought for right |
here at home where they are made
All around the Chamber are dunn
my figures of men, women and child
zen, with every garment upon them
aged and priced, to show how great
S the excess to the home consumer
Shoes, hats, cravats, underwear, wool
IN and cotton dresses, handkerchiefs,
nufflers, gloves, all are given.
1t proves that projections injus-
ices to protected" Americans affects
every class in the country, because
I'll Americans buy protected" pro-
lucts. Among the classes who notab-
y pay more for goods here than is
harged in other countries, by our
manufacturers are mechan-
cs, day laborers, housewives, physi-
ians, business men. including real
state agents, lawyers, canvassers, in
urance men, editors, bankers and
ankers, farmers, BARRIERS, bootblacks,
orse-shoers and plumbers.
The tariff, the high cost of living,
) the dominant issue of the campaign,
nd will be kept so by the women
f the land, even should it be dis
outraged by all others. When Har-
ison was defeated in 1892, Tom Reed
eclared that the American women
'ere responsible; and the tariff
chedules of the Mckinley law were
ot nearly so high, upon the neces- |
aries of life as they are today. II
! sure to be another case of the WON {
n being responsible.