The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-09-24

objects other than the maintenance of
American productive industry and en-
ployment. He is primarily distributor,
manipulation and toll-taker, not creator
or producer. If an Argentine peon can
raise wheat on land which is bought at
few cents an acre in million acre lots
more cheaply than can the American far
mer, the American farmer is invited to
90 out of business If cotton factories
manned with Japanese, or steel plants
employing Chinese coolies, can turn out
commodities more cheaply than can an
American factory,-and who doubts that
they cam then the commercial inter-
nationalist are for closing the American
mills and occupying themselves with buy
ing these articles in the foreign market
and selling them here at price which
will represent all the market will bear.
If these same interests can manufacture
automobiles in England, steel rails in
Germany, clothing in France and hats in
Italy more cheaply than then can here
and of course then cam then they want
the barriers torn down which stand for.
the protection of American standards of
life, no matter if this continues and deep
ems the menace Of unemployment now
existing under tariff law framed in.
violation of the protective principle.
The plea of the financial international
lists is that we must help Europe. Amer
lea has already made tremendous sacri-
fices for the rest of the world; unselfish-
ly, courageously and with the effect of
saving Europe from conquest by one
great military and industrial power.
While, the other victors in the World war
were dividing up territory, shipping and
trade zones taken from the enemy this
nation asked nothing, and got it. That
this government should help Europe and
the rest of the world to the extent of re-
fusing to protect from disastrous indus
trial invasion the hundred million Amer
leans who must be depended on to main
tain this republic in time of peace and
protect it in time of war, is not an altru-
istic, but an unpatrioiic proposal.
To American productive industry the
American home market is worth immea-
surably more than all the other markets
of the world combined. To destroy Amer
lean advantage in that market is to de-
stroy American prosperity. That was
was proved in 1894; it was proved in
i01fJ ~ 10 UeAiS pIONeu anew uIluer Tic
normal operations of tariff law fran
ed to encourage mportations at the sac
rifice of American productive industry
and employment. Unless the policy Of
protection to American industry be
promptly and thoroughly applied, the
year 1922 will see such an inundation of
American markets, such dislocation of
our whole industrial status that the CD
portunity to re-establish the protective
policy and genuine national prosperity
may never come again. Once our indus
trial and financial system has been thick
ly interfaced with that of the rest of the
world, the task of unscrambling will be
well nigh impossible. And such an estab.
lishment of trade equality among ma
tons" means that we must accept the e.
economic conditions prevailing in those
portions of the world where the life of
the everyday man is held more cheaply,
where governments and peoples are tot
ering on the edge of bankruptcy and DO
itical as well as industrial chaos, and
where society exists for the benefit of a
financial, commercial, industrial and De.
htical upper crust. The National Re-
| publican.
Anyway, the duty placed on the army
supplies we sold abroad will prevent us