The Glenwood post., 1920-10-30
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Current Events For the Children
and orown-ups. Too
UNCLE TED TALKS TARIFF

Uncle Ted was ruminstively eating
peanuts in the back yard, under the
maple tree, when Ruth and Jack ap-
proached him, and Jack asked: "Uncle
Ted, what did Senator Hitchcock mean
when he said the other day that the
Republicans had buried their chief
campaign issue, the tariff, and refused
to talk about i'll thought the chief
issue of the Republicans was keeping
the country out Of the Wilson world
club.'
"And SO it is, jack" replied Uncle
Ted, pausing to chuck peanut to an
impudent blackbird. "But in former
campaigns the tariff has been the chief
issue of the Republicans, and Senator
Hitchcock g mind is some what station
ary. In fact, his ideas bark back to
the beginning of the 18th century
when the mad Emperor Alexander I, Of
Russia put over what was called the
Holy Alliance which was very much
like Mr.. Wilson'S world club, and fol-
lowing which Europe had almost inces--
SAINT war down to 1870. But we were
not in that alliance, and so we were
You will remember that st. Paul said,
| what doth it profit a man If he gain
the whole world, yet suffer the loss OF
his own soul?' But St Paul did not
mean by this that man should enslave
his family in the saving of his soul,
nor that he should allow them to go
hungry while he worked for his own
salvation. Mr.. Wilson seems to have
reversed the question asked by st.
Paul, what doth it profit nation to
save its own soul, If ] suffer the loss
of the whole world'' The tariff was
one of the chief issues Of the Repubh-
can party up to the time that Mr. Will
son started in to try and boss the world
scrap our Constitution, and make ms
the creatures of his world club with its
throne at Geneva. Today the tariff il
an issue of lesser magnitude, eclipsed
somewhat by the issue of maintaining
our independence and saving our Con
stitution and the country from one-nan
government. But the tariff is very
important issue, nevertheless, and 1t ID
Intimately connected with the world
club.n
"will Won tell MS something about
the tariff, Uncle Ted!" asked Ruth.
"That is just what am coming to, -
Responded Uncle Ted "And by .
happy chance, 7 have in my hands, and
am passing you some Of product
which aptly illustrates the working Of
the tariff" and he passed his peanuts
to Ruth and Jack. "Now, have cat
en- about q dozen Of these peanuts, u
continued Uncle Ted. "As you VII,
see, I bought two sacks, for which ]
paid ten cents. Let's count them
lTwenty-seven. Plus the twelve I have
eaten makes thirty-nine, or about -four
for a cent. Sounds picayunish, doesn y
liz. But It tells a tale. Some year.
ago I could buy generous sack Of pea
nuts for a nickel. Today pay tor
cents for thirty.nine goobers.
"Now, before the world club occu
pied the center Of the STAGE" said Un'
Gle Ted, "ths Democrats wore saying
that the Republican policy Of protect
i've duties on home products was thu
cause of their high price. And thoy
promised in 1912 to lower the duties OF
all goods coming in from foreign eoun
tries to what they called revenue
basis. That meant, according to them
that they would put the tax on foreign
goods entering the United States q
low that q great deal more would come
lin, thus lowering the price, but &C
great would be these imports that they
would pay more revenue to Uncle
Sam Is treasury than was derived from
the protective rates Of the Republicans
The Republicans said, ~ you do that
YOU will drive our homo producers out
of business, the foreigners will then
control our markets, and they viii then
put up the prices But the Democrats
laughed at this, and told the Rspubli'
cans they didn't know what they were
talking about.
"Mr. Wilson and his followers cut
down the duty ON peanuts Is per cent
As said, before that cut was made ]
was getting big bag Of peanuts for .
nickel. Before that cut was made w
were importing into this country yearly
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