Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-12-02

toy industry increased from $4,000
600 to 100000 year in value of
products. This was due chiefly TO
the part which the protective tariff
played in encouraging American
| business.
Still, large quantities of toys
came in from abroad because they
were made so cheaply the sellers
could pay the tariff duty, yet UNDER
sell many American toys. When the
democratic party passed its low tar
| if law il did not make any great re-
visions in the tariff on toys, though
| it adopted some classifications which
were not helpful. But the tariff law
signed by President Wilson made
times so hard just before the war
that the toy industry suffered with
! the rest. However, the war came
along, war prosperity hit this coun-
try and toys from Germany were
held up by the British blockade, al
though the Japanese imports in
creased.
Now, Just consider what Amer
| lean enterprise has accomplished
while being permitted to develop I'M
hindered. by foreign competition in
toys. Harry c. Ives, president of
| the toy manufacturers of the United
States, said recently that the Ameri-
can production of toys for 1920 will
reach $50, 100000 in value. That is
ten times the value for 1909. Our
toy makers this year will have pro-
| duced $15,000,000 worth of dolls
everything from the rag doll to me-
chanical wax babies that can almost
do arithmetic. Among the S65, 0OO,-
900 worth Of other toys are play
things of all kinds and all are made
of honest materials, of fine work
manship and durability, and exhibit
ing a remarkable amount of origin
atty of idea and design. Just as
carloads of tops are leaving YER
mont says Mr.. Ives, car loads OF
sleds are leaving Maine and Michi-
gan, car loads of coaster wagons are
leaving New York, car loads OF
wheeled wagons are leaving the
State OF Ohio, and enormous ship
ments OF dolls are leaving New YORK
City This year Santa Claus is load
ing up with American toys TO dis
tribute to Riddles in other lands, and
he had piled his sleigh with $3,O0O,-
900 worth by the end of last Septem-
her, enough to make Dancer ana
| Prancer, Comet and Cupid, Dasher
and Vixen, Dunder and Blixen strain
| in their harnesses as Old Kris hrln-
gle snaps his whip and starts across
the Seven Seas. If we could take all
the toy factories Of the United States
and group them around the toy town
OF America, Winchester, Mass, IL
would make a collection of factories
that would overshadow the toy dis
tricts OF any other country says MT.
| Ives.
THAT top is going wobbly, Uncle
Ted" exclaimed Jack, pointing to
the groggy motion of the gyroscope.
$50 it is" replied Uncle Ted. 1T
must be wound again before it will
run again. And that is just what
the republican party must do with
American industry. We must untan-
gle and take the knots out of the
legislative string, or, better perhaps,
get brand new string, wind the
shank of industry in business fash
ion and set it spinning in the plane
OF sanity. The fact that industry
has been able to keep going at all
during the past seven and half
years has astonished all experts on
the laws of motion. But the time
has come when Industry must be re-
ha-bil-i-ta-ted."
And as the old gentleman slowly
pronounced this big word the top
ltumbled from its purch, Uncle Ted