Arizona republican., 1921-08-26
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST as. 1921
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we will await with some impatience our copy Of the Congressional Record of August A to leasu what reasons, if any. were given by those Demo cratic senators who in eleventh hour held the bill proposins 90 per cent duty American goods sold in France and brought back to this country.
 These goods were sold after the armistice, not at what they would bring but at the lowest figure ob- tainabIe Indeed. 1t at first proposed by some Of us while the spirit of exaaton was still upon us to give them to the stricken French. Secretary of war Baker favored that. But some of his more sordid countrymen believed that ought to set back as much as possible Of the outlay had made for the war. At that time too. there was scarcity Of everything in this country and prices hgh- CT than ever before. There were abroad millions of tons of American food clothing. shoes harness and practically all necessities. It proposed that all this stuff brought back and sold to the American people
 But our eovsrnment refused on the ground that t would 50 depress prices that many would suffer It might have had that effect; doubt would have lowered prices and have been harmful to many profiteers
 So the American goods abroad sold at an infinitesimal part of the cost of producing How small that part is illustrated in an incident we have already once related. young man in Phia- delphia with limited managed to scrape to- eether . little capital went to France and bought at the war sale the entire held by the ment of safety razor blades of well known brand. He brought them back this country and sold them to the makers at profit of $3oooo And by the way. those of us who have noticed that the blades of this brand are interior to those formerly bought are using a part of this war stock.
 The reason we arc threatening enhargoes and prohibtory tariffs on foreign commodities is that they are produced abroad at cost far below the cost Of production in this country. largely because of the cheaper labor there Yet the American goods now in France awaiting shipment to this country stand their owners much less than the cost of auction anywhere in the world They have cost them less than the cost of the material If our American manufacturers and producers could secure labor for nothing they could not compete with these American goods waiting to be brought back from France.
 We suppose that on the average they much inferior to smilsr American goods in this country. just as those army blades inferior to those of the same brand before the war. But the consun- ing public would not know that and would not find it out until the goods had been absorbed At per- haps slightly reduced prices. the public would take these goods In the meantime current American pro- duction and labor would suffer- The spectators who had bought the goods would have reaped high profits.
 Let the holders be compelled to sell those goods abroad such prices they get The people of the European countries need them and we do not
 We want production in this country. work for labor, an outlet for raw material rather than an innundation of cheap goods whether originally oi American or foreign production