The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-30

Road, Folks" Warren G.. Noteware
facts on the condition of the principal
industry of Humboldt county-live-
stock-which he shows is facing a
condition that means ruin. His ar
ticle, in which he also brings out the
fact that France, by decree, has
barred out foreign livestock, follows:
The two great political parties diff
fer radically on the question of tariffs.
I The Democratic party, true to its
traditions and following in the foot
steps of Cleveland and Wilson. is COM
mitted to its policy of Free Trade--a
tariff for revenue only" The pres
ent Underwood tariff law, passed In
1913, was not designed to afford any
protection whatever; on the contrary
President Wilson proudly declared
had been deliberately drafted with
the intent to supplant American
products with foreign products"
The Republican party-.the party of
Lincoln, Mckinley and Roosevelt
advocates and is pledged to tariff
Tor protection and for revenue, de-
igned to give American products an
advantage over foreign products with
in American markets.
The Republican party excludes both
the cheap laborer and the products
Of cheap labor.
THE Democratic party, while ex-
1luding the cheap laborer, invites
he products of all cheap, foreign and
contract labor" Every intelligent
American voter owes it to himself to
seriously weigh, consider and deter
line which policy is preferable and
o vote his convictions.
If you believe in industrial pre-
paredness as well as military pre-
aredness; If you believe against the
INVASION of Coolie and contract labor
Chinese and Japanese) should we not
rotect ourselves against the product
f these same people?" A vote for
OK is a vote to make certain the con-
tnuance of the Underwood tariff de-
igned to solicit flood OF cheap, for
ign and pauper-made goods to Sup
liant the products of American labor.
For number of years Japan has
5een buying American-made looms in
rain-load lots. They also buy Ameri-
oan cotton in million pound consign-
lents. Japan exported to the United
States during 1917 $3.50 600 worth OF
Merchandise for each day of that year
these exports included the product
Of these American looms.
The town of Osaka has $500 fac
tories in operation-the japanese
wage scale for men is from thirty
four to forty-two cents per day OF
twelve hours, women twenty per cent
less than men, and children still less
No child labor laws or limitation OF
woman's work in Japan. Our average
wage scale is more than ten times as
high for day only two-thirds as long
Can the American manufacturers, ii
pitted against the world tJapan), con-
tinue to pay our scale of wages?"
do you realize that the payroll OF
the United Sttaes, equal to that of all
the rest of the world, is our most val
liable asset? Do you also realize that
the best and only way to preserve
the payroll is by pursuing that policy
-Protection-tha created it?"
The Democratic party under its
Free Trade policy never has anG
never will promise to give Americans
any advantage over foreigners in the
American markets. If you believe in
protection. possible only through q
change of party control, vote foI
Harding or else wait four years longer
under Cox and the Underwood tariff
law.
| can conceive of nothing of more
| Importance than the delivery of the
laborer. farmer and stoclIman from
the conditions imposed by the Tn.
derwood tariff law, which hangs as q
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