Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-25
SCISSORS For GEKMANY.

Shall German scissors cut our Red
Cross pandages? A good many will re-
call the amusing incident which oc-
Cured at the luncheon given by the
British Empire Production association
in London some weeks ago, when the
chief speaker, Lord Beresford, after
an exhaustive discussion Of plans for
post war restriction OF imports from
Germany, suddenly discovered that the
plates from which the guests were eat
ing were MADE in Germany" The
ash of china which followed betrayed
the indignation of his audience.
A case of like Significance is pre-
scented In story that comes from the
Fort Niagara reserve officers train
ing camp: An earnest patriot or
over draft age and under draft ex-
perience was painfully sewing a but
ton on his cotton drill pants-doubled
thread when the job was completed
he reached for a pair OF scissors in
cluded In the "housewife" which
proud parent had given MIN. Snip
ping off the thread he looked at the
scissors and was dismayed to find
that they were made in Germany.
Prior to tacltling the artillery this
daisy" as the student officers are
called, had for six years fought for
the cause of protection to home Indus
tries His curiosity was now aroused
In his battery were one hundred and
four students, about forty OF whom
were provided with housewives" and
scissors, and he found twenty-eight
pairs of scissors with the German
brand on them, or 70 per cent of
the number in the battery. Probably
search of the entire camp OF four
teen hundred men would have given
similar result.
To the thotless this might seem a
small matter, but to that student,
who. thru research and actual ex-
perlence, had acquainted himself with
the Industrial disaster which invari-
ably accompanies a Democratic tariff
law, and whose overweening ambi-
ton was to snip the points from the
kaiser's mustache. 1t was matter for
serious reflection.
why should American fighting men
be equipped with the scissors OF the
Hun? Why should the bandages OF
/ our wounded be cut with shears fab
rica.ed by the people who caused
those wounds? We have a dozen or
so of factories in this country. To-
Gated in Connecticut, New York. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Michigan. They make good scis-
sors and shears, and today they are
being taxed to sustain the war against
an enemy who, in normal times, is
permitted to drive them out of the
home market and encouraged to give
them no quarter.
The Republican tariff law gave to
scissors and shears a protective duty
ranging from 45 per cent for the
/ lower to 81 per cent for the higher
grades. The Democrats put all grades
down to 80 per cent, and In the brief
ten months between the passage OF
the bill and the outbreak of the wal
tmportations of these goods increased
over 80 per cent, The German man
ufacturer employing German work
men at one-third the American work
mans wage. was pleased beyond ex'
preston. That law is still in force
German competition after the war, un'
der such n law. is certain. 1t is fol
the women who cut and sew and the
men who forge and draw to decide
whether after the war, we will eN
claim. Comes the blind fury with the
abhorred shears"