The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-21
THE ENEMY AT OUR GATES

tween two opinions. Is it America for Americans or America for the world? Undoubtedly the first pro- position is correct. We must seek that which our own best interests require. We should inquire after that which will advance our own cause as a nation.
 It will perhaps sound paradoxical but is true nevertheless, that Ameri. ca working solely for it's own best in. terests is thereby doing the world the greatest philanthropic good.
 Self preservation is the first rule of nature; it is the prime basis of human existence, and anything op' posed to this maxim is unnatural. This is wonderful country in more senses than one. It is practically self sustaining. It's vast agricultural en- terprises are it's backbone, with labor and capital as it's sturdy limbs.
 Farmers have been ruined by the lack of tariff. Those who have worked from early dawn to setting sun seeking to support our country have been repaid in a very poor fashion indeed. We have bitten the hand that has fed us. How can our farmers with highly paid help, pro- viding respectable food and living quarters, compete with peonage or prison labor of other countries? It is impossible.
 The cry was raised on all sides that to pass the agricultural emer- gency tariff measure would incur the enmity of several of our neighbors. Nothing could be more cowardly than this cry. Had the patriots of 1776 been thus cowardly, instead of a Declaration of Independence we would have had another humble pe- tition to the king for redress of grievances, with the result that more military would have been placed in our homes, and all thought of libery come to grief. What do we care what others will think or say? What we want is self-help. We need hard-headed business men in control of the situation, instead of long winded politicians with falla- cious theories
 The shipping board situation for example. The British shipping board made for its government several hundred million dollars clear profit, while ours has already caused a | deficit of $50O,OOO,Ooo. What better could be expected of an administra- tion that repealed the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure?
 If we provide an adequate tariff, industry will revive and there will be plenty of work for all. Then we will have real prosperity. It is an historical fact that during Cleve- lands administration we had soup kitchens, while during McKinley's administration, with the Dingley tar if act in force there was employ ment for all. And those were times of real prosperity.
 The enemy-foreign goods-is at our gates. There is nothing more fraught with danger than this promis- cuous importation. The doctrine that America exists for Americas sake primarily includes the consumption of American made goods to as great an extent as possible. This must be included within a common sense definition of patriotism. The pro. duction-consumption cycle must take place here in America. Production consumption is the virility of a na- tion. Without it, existence cannot be 
 Labor is benefited by an adequate tariff. It is we'll known that those administrations favoring an adequate tariff have been the ones to sponsor the cause of labor. The two have ever gone hand h hand. Further more. at ! tina of commercial pros.
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