Milford chronicle., 1922-07-28

THE MOST AMAZING FEATURE of the campaign be-
ing waged against the enactment of American protec
tive tariff is the brazen admission of the Democratic
and the importing interests that they count
fully deceving the and the retail interests of the
country into the belief that the proposed tariff is nimca
to the retail interests and to the ultimate
sumer
If the women and the retailers would stop for mo-
ment to consider the situation they could escape
conclusion that the campaign of the importing
inherently deceptive These interests openly spend
ing hundreds of thousands dollars defeat the
ment of the proposed tariff.
They are keeping corps of speakers travelling
throughout the country addressing merchant associations
conventions chambers of ETC. in opposition
the proposed tariff They sending out tons of tera-
ture to the local retail interests and membership
clubs etc. against the proposed tariff They are sending
out letters under first class postage thou
sands of people protesting against the the
proposed tariff They employing writers to produce
feature articles against the proposed tariff the
merest amateur knows that this sort of campaign is
costing tremendous of money.
Those back of it claim they are animated only by the
unselfsh desire to the consumer money by
the high of preventing being robbed by the
American manufacturer That the importing interests
this country should expend enormous sums for the
wholly disnteresed and altruistic purpose of saving
money to the American woman and the American retailer
is too silly proposition to be considered seriously by
anyone giving it a second thought
The conclusion is logical and unacceptable that i'm
porting interests which are spending these enormous
sums of money to defeat protective tariff be prof
iting times those money by the trade
law which have. They financing the tremend-
Gus campaign against the pending tariff bill
desire to save the American any money but
of desire continue conditions that enable them o rob
the American consumers by buying cheapy made goods
abroad and selling them in this country at profits amount
ing from 200 to several thousand per cent.
The retailer the retrOnolitan cities bas
cause for alarm at this campaign The large import
ing interests, who also conduct mail order business
are buying abroad in ship load lots The ultimate des
nation of great percentage of these goods trade
territory of the local the average American
city and the smaller towns. There is not the least doubt
but that the local trade territory the home merchant will
be flooded with these cheap goods purchased abroad
1ooded by the large department stores and importing
erests that trying to enlist the support of the
home merchant to defeat the pending protective tariff
The successful elimination of this program the inn
porting interests and large department which
mail order business not only the invasion of the
rade territory of the home merchant which in itself
would be disastrous, but it the throwing out of
employment of American working people cannot pro-
luce articles in competition with the articles bought
broad This will deprive the local merchants of the pat
onage of the working people who will be without a job
Ind therefore without the wherewith to buy.
There never has been policy before the country that
vas more deserving of be support local home mer
hant and the American consumer not only from the
standpoint OF patriotism but from the codbooded
ont OF dollars and cents and sepreservaton than the
ocy OF protective tariff designed to stop the flooding
this country by goods made in Europe and paid for in
appreciated currency.
The importing interests have always opposed pro-
ecve tariff because nterfered with their profits They
lave always aligned themselves against American indus
because they could make greater margin of profit by
atronzng foreign factories But the importing interests
lever have waged anything like the fight against pro-
ectve tariff that they waging against the one now
ending because before have the margins of profit
n handling imported goods been enormous as they
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