The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
The Home Marker

The exploitation of the export
question is a clever evasion Of the
facts confronting the textile industry
at the present time, and if the propa-I
ganda was engineered by the foreign
competitors of our industry, it could
not be better planned.
But the fact remains that the sue
cess of our great industry depends
upon the home market, and we have
never had a better example of this
fact than in what confronts Us at the
present time. Temporarily, the home
market is undergoing a period of cur
tailment and consequently the textile
industry is not running more than so
per cent. This always happens when
the American public stops spending
money freely for domestic goods, and
there is not enough export business
possible TO Offset the reduced home
demand, and mills are compelled to
close.
The above situation could not
please our overseas competitors any
better, if they arranged it themselves,
and the solution is easily found in a
high Tariff that will equalize textile
wages paid abroad, with our high
American wage, and then demand for
home products will increase and bust
ness will boom, because we can con-
tinue the American plan of living and
spending and all the wheels will be
turning.
The key to prosperous America is
| booming home industry and we
should be amply sure of such
market by putting up all safeguards
necessary, regardless Of outside con-
ditions. Then, if we should have a
surplus of cloth, we can go in for ex-
port on the best terms we can make
in competition with England, France
and Germany, and we will lose in
| ninety cases out Of one hundred.
There are more than 125, 100000
people to clothe in the United States,
and as yet we have very little surplus
machinery to supply the enormous
| demand from home market. We
have ways unique here in living and
doing business, but the American
plan works out pretty good, and II
we are given a high Tariff, we can go
on in peace and prosperity indefinite
ly. 1t is difficult to misunderstood
where we are under the present near
Free-Trade Tariff now in force
|
Governor Henry J. Allen has heart
iIv endorsed the national collection"
of S33, 100000 being taken under the
auspices of the European Relief
Council, to save the lives of 100000
starving children in Central and east
| ern Europe In a letter to Herbert
Hoover, chairman of the council, Gov.
Allen says:
at will be pleasure to do any
thing I can to help in the campaign
YOU have started. 1 only regret that
the heavy work incident to getting
ready for the Forthcoming session of
the legislature, makes it impossible
for me to give personal attention to
the collection"
Mr.. Hoover estimates that $685.
100000 will provide the most serious
Iy undernourished children in Aus
tria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia ant
Poland with one meal a day until TIT
harvests of next August, at the public
feeding stations maintained by Amer
lean charity. The remaining $40,
100000 of the collection will be useC
for immediate medical relief for tn
: millions of sick and crippled children
: One dollar in American money vii
feed hungry child for month.
5 The editor of this paper will glad
" forward your contribution.
+ It seems impossible that the TWEEN
tieth Century could hold such
; wealth of horror.
, There are in Europe today som
I11.OOO.O children BETWEEN the age
: of three and sixteen, befeft
parents, home, comfort, opportunit
Everything that should be the her1t
t age of the generation. Of this mum
? Der $500, 600 are actually starving
D AS the cold of winter sets IN tn
t pangs of hunger gnaw deeper an
4 deeper until death claims its victim
: And the small sum of 81 would Pre-
t1o~o. oooL lifa for one month