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How to Cure Two Contemporary Evils at
One Time.

How to Cure Two Contemporary Evils at
One Time.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The interesting scrap that your paper
is carrying out to down fake hat labels
(among other objects of Mr.. Adams's So
licitous attention. makes an occasional
reader of your paper ask if it can possibly
be that, in these days when we witness so
much suffering due to unemployment, there
can be anybody making his living in
America. either in wages or in coupons, who
can have the heart to go to any store and
not only not insist, but even ask that the
article he or she is trying to purchase be
imported For apparently that is the claim
made by the hatters in the letters, extracts
of which you published to-day.
II such is the condition prevailing. think
it is high time that the buying people come
to their senses. Can any one see bread
line or even read about one, let alone the
statistics taken by the authorities, of some
900 unemployed in New York alone, and
yet help make that condition permanent FOR
even a week or a month, by buying an ar
ticle Of foreign make, when such articles
are made here in this country good enough
for the best of US or the poorest among us ?
And it is not a matter OF national pride
at all. but really question of self-protec-
ton, for what is New York but On aggrega-
ton of people of all nationalities whose
prosperity in the past was based on their
democratic ideals and on standing together
to defend that prosperity in this their
adopted home?
This is not question OF shutting out
foreign trade or an argument for tariff
protection; but it seems to the writer sim
ply a case of being humanely conscious OF
our individual responsibility at this time
for the welfare of those who live in our
midst Let all men and women who, by
reason of living here, love the country Of
their birth or their adoption, not only stop
asking for an Imported" article, but rather
be solcitous to give emphatic preference to
goods of domestic make, made in the United
States of America (and make sure OF III,
and when domestic goods can be had BUY
nothing else.
This. at least, so long as our charity or
CARNATIONS have work beyond their means
and the Hotel Knickerbocker and other
equally magnificent firms or organizations
are supplying the bare wants Of thousands
of men and hundreds of women daily. Let
the merchant be proud to say that such OF
his wares are made in America, and why.
Let him teach his clerks TO get in that
spirit for their own protection. Let all
ion in advertising to our own public by
word Of mouth and by printers ink why
such goods made in America are good
enough for us all, not only because they
are made by our own people, but also be-
cause they are, as usually is the case, as
good as can be made.
The money you pay for imported goods
now goes to feed armies Of destruction
mostly. The money you pay for domestic
goods feeds those who live by the fruit OF
their work and want to remain self-respect-
ing. self-sustaining citizens in our own
midst.
Could not Mr.. Adams write one OF his
vigorous articles on this subject
HENRY DALMASES.
Orange, n. j., Feb. 20, 1915.