Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-01
WALTER CAMPS sCREED.

party OF moral ideas starts to build
a tariff wall in payment for the finan-
eiai hacking which certain monopolies
supplied during the last national cam
paign. Sometimes, however, the very
persons who are seeking to convert
the public to their way of thinking
make themselves ridiculous by the
foolish arguments which they advance.
GENES 20 hand 4 letter signed by
walter Camp of the New Haven
Clock Company, also President of the
American Valuation Association, who
seeks to change Every Evening into
a hidebound. reactionary sheet over
night.
Mr.. Camp. who certainly should
know better. makes his arguments in
favor of sky-high tariffs in most
maudlin fashion. His letter almost
drips tears-tears shed because of our
soldier boys who fought for
America, and who now must compete
with German Industries. Here is a
sample Of Mr.. Camps literary effu-
sions.
"Shali tho gold starred mothers who
made the supreme sacrifice during the
war be made to bear further hard
ships through the unemployment of
their remaining sons and daughters
while Germany is permitted to make
restitution through the development
81 her industries while our factories
remain closed7'' ut lis gold star"
Mr.. Camp. not gold starred).
Then again:
"our soldier boys back from months
overseas where they served : in the
American army at $50 month, are
today out OF work, many Of them down
and out. while German soldiers are
working day and night manufactur-
ing goods TO be sent TO this country"
The trouble with your average New
Englander, especially the provincial
Connecticut citizen, is that he gives
no one living south of Boston credit
with having any brains at all He
believes that God is present only in
his churches, and that the sun shines
from Back Bay northward. Mr..
Camp seems to be suffering from an
extreme case of misapprehension re-
rarding the people who live elsewhere,
to whom he indites his foolish epistles.
While this gentleman is putting in
pne weepy. fearful word for 'our
soldier boys he is also putting in one
thousand words for his own private
pocketbook, and those of his fellow
New England manufacturers.
Instead of making his arguments
ON sound economic grounds. he ad-
yances them on sentimental ones, and
widely over-states the mark-a habit
with some gentry. OF course
there is no sound economic ar
gument for his stand, so he weeps
over ''our soldier boys" and their
mothers. To judge by his screed he
wants a high tariff for them, and not
for the mothers of younger men who
We're not old enough to be in the
service.
Then witness that sweeping mis-
statement of fact, that un-varnished
distortion, "Our soldier boys. back
from months overseas where they
served in the American army at $50
a month, are today out of work"
According to that statement, the two
million men who served in the A. Z.
r. are 5obless. That is a fabrication
out of the whole CLOTH Some of them
are out of work-just as some men
who were not in the army are out of
work But there are not two million
former members of the A. E. f. job
less by any means.
The truth is that this valuation plan
which is incorporated in Mr.. Fordney's
tariff bill is SO unsound economically.
so foolish from logical point of
view, that even the manufacturers who
desire it cannot offer any sane reason
why it should be adopted They know
that it will aid them in establishing
monopolies. But they can't admit that
70 the public. So they weep over "onr