The Penn's Grove record., 1920-10-15
~NON-PARTISAN SCIENTIFIC
TARIFF LAWS
The League Provides For Eliminating
Labor Competition by Bettering
Conditions
The old tariff bogey has returned.


men, as many were for forty years,
that if Cox and Roosevelt and a Dem
ocpatic Congress are elected the Dye
Works will shut down. Just stop to
think. There was high protective
tariff for forty years yet was there a
big dye works built up under Republi-
can tariff laws in the United States?
The writer was told by a prominent
man that some years ago there
were manufacturers of dyes in New
York State which did a profitable
business for years, but the highly pro-
tected manufacturers of textile goods
quit buying American dyes and pur-
chased German dyes.
The manufacturers patriotism eX-
tended as far as the protection of their
own interests but were willing to sac
rifice a home industry when they could
buy cheaper from Germany. Germans
built up industries under Republican
protective tariff to the value of over
half a billion dollars. About $780,
000,0 900 of alien enemy property were
taken over by the Government, includ-
ing valuable patents on making dyes.
These are used in making American
dyes. The present industry was built
up under a Democrat administration.
Is it reasonable to think another DEM
ocratic administration would kill its
own child like that killed under a Re-
publican administration during a pro-
tective tariff?
For forty years the Republican poll
ticians acted the brigand on industries
to give legislation for campaign funds.
When Wilson and a Democratic
Congress got in they revised the tariff
on a scientific basis and created a
tariff commission to investigate the
old g~rey-haired infant industries, some
a hundred years old, who want a gov
eminent suck bottle all their lives.
Wilson's administration created a
tariff commission. The chairman of
this tariff commission "a Frank w.
Taussig, Professor of Political Econ
omy in Harvard College, the writer of
so many books that every college man
knows of him. Other scientific men
were appointed on this commission to
investigate the need of protection, to
protect the as well as the
producer. The Democrats do not sell
legislation to the politicians as was
done for forty years, but propose to
give scientific justice. This is their
Tariff Plank
in the Democratic platform of 1920.
We reaffirm the traditional policy
of the Democratic party in favor of a
tariff for revenue only and to confirm
the policy of basing tariff revision
upon the intelligence of a non
partisan commission rather than upon
the demand of selfish interests temper
arily held in allegiance.
Is not that sensible?
Well, on investigation, a tariff was
recommended on certain dye products.
1t passed the House of Representatives
known as the Longworth bill. Presi-
dent Wilson sent two messages to
Congress recommending its passage,
but it was held up by George H.
Moses, Republican Senator from New
Hampshire. No reasons were given,
but the political presumption is that
the Senate oligarchy wanted to pull
the leg of the DUPONT Company for
| $4,000 like was done in the campaign
of 1916.
The Democratic party's policy is to
give fair non-partisan scientific tariff
protection where honestly needed and
not sell legislation for campaign con-
tributions to pass down to the politl-
cal workers who consider that their
political policy of protection as well
as political workers yearly graft.
The old reasons given for a high
tariff was that there vas cheap labor
to compete with in other countries.
The League and Labor
Labor conditions in foreign countries
are claimed to be the need of a high
tariff here. Few stop to think of the
greater efficiency because of intelli-
gence here. Article % of the League
of Nations reads as follows:
"The members of the League will en-
deavor to secure and maintain fair and
humane conditions of labor for men,
women and children, both in their own
countries and in all the countries to
which their commercial and industrial
relations extend and for that purpose
will establish and maintain the neces-
sary legislation.
"Also undertake to secur just treat
ment of the native inhabitants of ter
r~itorieS under their control"
Abraham Lincoln's emancipation
freed three million black slaves. The
Woodrow Wilson League of Nations
emancipates all the laborers in all the
world. Read the above again and stop
TO think what a vast meaning it con-
tains.
There has been two international
labor congresses this year. One was
in Washington, D. c., the other in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Every laboring man in the United
States should be for Cox and Roose-
welt and the League of Nations be-
cause it provides that labor conditions
shall be made better and uniform all
over the world SO there will be nc
more cheap labor for little provincial
Americans to fear.
1t is claimed there is an interna-
tional money power. The Socialists
have nreached for wears on interna-