Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-10-28
PEANUTS AND
DEMOCRAT POLITICS
UNCLE TED TELLS CHILDREN
ABOUT THE PEANUT PROP
OSTION AND TARIFF.

Uncle Ted was ruminatively eat
ing peanuts in the back yard, under
the maple tree, when Ruth and Jack
approached him, and Jack asked
Uncle Ted, what did Senator Hitch
cock mean when he said the other
day that the republicans had buried
their chief campaign issue, the tar
if, and refused to talk about it? l
thought the chief issue of the re-
publicans was keeping the country
out of the Wilson world club"
And so it is, Jack" replied I'm
Gle Ted, pausing to chuck a peanut
to an impudent blackbird. But in
| former campaigns the tariff has
been the chief issue of the republic
cans, and Senator Hitchcock's mind
is somewhat stationary In fact, his
ideas bark back to the beginning of
the 18th century when the mad En-
| peror Alexander |, of Russia, put
over what was called the Holy Al
| liarce," which was very much like
| Mr.. Wilson's world club, and follow
/ ing which Europe had almost Iuces-
| SAINT war down to 1870. But we were
not in that alliance, aud 80 we were
permitted to attend to our own af-
fairs. You will remember that st.
Paul said, what doth it profit
man If he gain the whole world, yet
suffer the loss of his own SOUL?
| But st. Paul did not mean by this
! that a man should enslave his fam
| lily 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 by putting it, what doth it
profit a nation to save its own soul,
| If / suffer the loss of the whole
world?' The tariff was one of the
chief issues of the republican party
up to the time that Mr.. Wilson start
| ed in to try to boss the world, scrap
our Constitution, and make us the
creatures of the world club with its
throne at Geneva. Today the tariff
| is an issue of lesser magnitude,
ecilpsed somewhat by the issue of
maintaining our independence and
saving our Constitution and the
country from One-man government.
But the tariff is a very important
issue, nevertheless, and Is intimate
| ly connected with the world club"
"Will you tell us something about
! the tariff, Uncle Ted?" asked Ruth.
THAT is just what | am coming
| to-" replied Uncle Ted. And, by a
| happy chance, l have in my hands,
| and am passing you some Of the
| product which aptly illustrates the
working of the tariff" and he pass
ed his peanuts to Ruth and Jack.
Now, / have eaten about a dozen OF
/ these peanuts" continued Uncle
| Ted. "As you will see, l bought
two sacks, for which l paid ten
cents. Let's count them. Twenty
seven Plus the twelve / have eat
en-, makes thirty-nine, or about four
for cent. Sounds picayunish
doesn't IL? But it tells a tale. Some
years ago | could buy a generous
sack of peanuts for a nickel. Today
! pay ten cents for thirty-nine of
the COOLERS.
Now, before the world club occu-
pied the center of the stage" said
| Uncle Ted, 1.-The democrats were
saying that the republican policy OF
protective duties on home products
was the cause of their high price.
And they promised in 1912 to lower
| the duties on all goods coming in
| from foreign countries to what they
called revenue basis. That meant,
according to them, that they would
| put the tax on foreign goods enter
ing the United States so low that
great deal more would come in, thus
lowering the price, but so great
would be these imports that they
would pay more revenue to Uncle
| Sans treasury than was derived
from the protective rates of the re-
publicans. The republicans said, IF
you do that you will drive our home
producers out of business, the for
eigners will then control our mark
cts, and they will then put up the
prices But the democrats laughed
at this and told the republicans they
didn't know what they were talking
about.
MIR. Wilson and his follewrs cut
down the duty on peanuts 20 per
cent. AS | said, before that cut was
made l was getting a big bag OF