The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
FEELING AMONG NATION
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disastrous. This disaster is to come,
not from a military, but from an in
dustrial, invasion.
In order to bring about this great
disaster, this great industrial cat
aclysm, no foreign fleet need be an
chOred in our harbOrs No invading
army need desolate our land. But the
desolation, ~stagnation, and ruin Will
come just the same-so we are told.
1t is an uncanny, gruesome, subtle,
baleful thing even to describe. Pro-
t%ectionists have exhausted the vOcab-
ulary of mystery and fear in d to
portray it. But it will surely come
at least so our patriots for profit
tell us. But howe? why? Where
fore?
The explanation is at hand. l adj
nit that it is not rational. that it is
not sane. But it is clear, vivid,
alarming. Here it is: The mighty
avalanche which is to overwhelm our
industries, because of our alleged lack
of tariff protection, will come
through the same dreaded fact of he
foreign invasion. But in this new
form of invasion and conquest the in
vaders will employ the weaponry, not
of the sword but of Tradel Instead
of the invading ships being loaded
with foreign soldiers, they Will be
loaded with something equally dis
astrous to our general welfare
foreign goods, the necessities of life.
In imagination we are asked to pic
ture great squadrons and flotillas,
laden with the products of the "pau-
per- labor of Europe, Asia, Africa,
and the distant stands of the sea, ali
bearing down Upon our defenseless-
ness-because -inadequately fairfield
shores, and deluging our markets
with their foreign wares; thus over
whelming, crushing, smothering and
drowning out our great industrial es-
adjustments. That is hat is to
happen to US after the war" And
that is the way it is to happen.
I'VE ask, do they sell the mass of
goods, or give il as a donation. Well.
they either do or do not. Which is
it? tt gre can be no middle ground
BY dumping must be meant either
that they will give us their goods, Or
else that they will trade us their
goods. In either case, wher is the
harm-to us?
Again 1 repeat that foreigners who
dump" goods on us after the
war; either will, or will not, demand
our own goods in return. If hey dc
not, if they are so good as to actually
donate hundreds of millions of dol
lars worth of their products to us
every year, where would be the harm
II mean to us? What is there about
abundance that would cause scarcity
and starvation? Will some one tell
US?
If. on the other hand, they do de
mand our own goods in return, dol
lar for dollar-in other words, if By
dumping" p~rotectionists NEAR no
donating but importing-where vii
be the harm from that? Importation
means trade-"the exchange of goods
for goods" But there is nothing new
or disastrous about trade. 1t is :
process that has been going on fol
centuries. For tens of thousands 81
years mankind has been importing
foreign goods and exporting their owl
goods in return. But this has nevel
thrown labor out of employment. /
gives employment to labor.
you cannot import without export
ing. Every dollars worth of imports
demands a dollars worth of exports
Therefore. the consumption of foreigi
: goods does not throw labor out of EN-
/ ployment. On the contrary, it give
employment to abor. We now knoy
r by actual experience that supplying
a goods for our export trade as effect
t lively gives employment to labor a
e SURVIVING goods for our home trade
Foreigners will not dump good
2 on our shores unless we dump" a.
t equal quantity of goods on thei
shores. 1 wish they would The
will not ''deluge' us with their prod
l ucts unless we r~eciprOcate by "delue
r ing them with our products Con
sumption of foreign goods does NJ
S eliminate the necessity for home pro
, duction. You must produce some
t thing to trade in order to get foreig