The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-07-10
The Principal
Still Remains

WhohANplONs July Sine he
publican Publicity association thru
its president Hon. Jonathan Boasne
Jr., gave out the following statement
from its Washington head quarters:
Vice President Marshal is quoted
as saying that every principle
known to economic man has been jos
tied out of position by the war;
Which is not true. Not one prin-
ciple has been iostled out of posi-
ton. Principles do not change.
Mems applications of principles
;change. Men change their opinions
as to the operation of principles. But
all laws of nature either physical or
metaphysical. are eternal.
The law which impels water to
seek it's level is no more definite
and permanent than the law which
tends OF place all wages and condi-
tons OF living on the same plane
where no barriers are maintained to
support an unequal level. vive Pres
ident Marshal says he was free
trader before the war Nothing has
happened during the war to render
a protective tariff policy either more
necessary or less necessary as per
nanent American policy. All that
the war has done in that regard has
been to demonstrate beyond furth-
e. argument the soundness of the
protective principle. Marshall may
have changed but the principle has
not
In 1919 the Democratic party en-
acted tariff law to meet the views
OF Marshal and his party. As a re-
suit OF that law which lowered the
tariff wall. imports to America in
creased curtailing American produc-
ton. Our exports decreased with our
power to produce until in April 1914
the monthly balance OF trade was
against the United States. Hundreds
OF thousands of men and women
were thrown out of employment by
the closing OF the American mills
and the shutting down OF other in
dustries indirectly affected. The bal
ance o trade continued against the
United States until the outbreak of
the war which served -as-zS import
wall higher and stronger than any
law that was ever enacted.
But no principle had been "jost-
tied out of position" The princi-
pie remained the same-that with
barriers removed wages and condi-
tions of living win seek level just
as water does when the dam is brok-
en-. With an effective barrier wages
may be held to higher level In one
country than in another. just as a
dam may hold the water higher in
one pond than In another. The war
not only cut off imports but afforded
'us a new market for our products,
with the result that America now
has an aggregate balance OF trade
lin her favor exceeding ten billion
dollars.
Conditions resulting from The war
make II impossible for Europe ano
Asia to resume at once the shipment
OF goods to this country but just as
surely a the law of gravity remains
in force the time will come when ma
lions in which lower standards OF
living prevail will send goods here
at prices lower than we can afford
to sell our own products. unless the
tariff or some other artificial wall
shall be erected, The only question
remaining to be determined is when
and in what manner the protective
wall shall be restored. The Ameri
can people are not likely TO delegate
the wall building task to men who
for more than half century could
not see the need OF barrier against
inflow OF cheap products from 9th
er lands.
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