Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-25
PUSHES
TARIFF ISSUE
Disputes Appleby's Statement
That Bill Aids Best Inter-
eSts of People

TOMS RIVER, Oct. 25.-Elmer H.
Geran, Democratic candidate for
congress-, carried his campaign into
Ocean county yesterday and at a po-
litical rally here last night he train
ed his oratorical guns on a speech
of his Republican opponent, Con-
gresham Appleby, in which the lat
ter is reported to have declared that
the tariff bill was enacted in the
test interests of the American pep
pie.
IF a tax of $165 a year IN the ave-
rage American family, about $3.50 of
which will go into the already swol-
len Golfers of the trusts, leaving
about $45 for the government; if a
shifting of the tax burden from the
very wealthy to the poor and mid
die classes; if these things are in
the best interests of the American
people, then Mr.. Appleby is right.
But l can not follow such a line OF
reasoning. Mr.. Appleby's logic, car
ried to an ultimate conclusion means
that the more you tax the poor and
the less you tax the rich, the better
for the country.
And Mr.. Appleby would have us
believe that the complaint hat this
monstrous Republican tariff will in
crease the cost of the necessities be-
yond reason and endurance is with
out foundation. Why. l almost ex-
pect to hear him saying next that the
tariff will reduce the cost of living.
But the editor of the New York Her
aid, the leading Republican news
paper in the United States, doesn't
agree with Mr.. Appleby. Mr.. Mum
dey condemns the tariff bill as a
political and economic outrage
against the American people. He
and other politically disinterested
experts estimate that the tariff will
mean an increase of $165 a year i'll
the cost of living of the average AM
erican family.
"How is the average American
family going to get hat extra $3.50?
Where is it coming from? Have Mr..
Appleby and his Republican asso-
ciates in congress provided for it?
Have they worked some wonder by
which the income of the average
American family will be increased 10
meet this additional expense They
have not. They have taken care of
the poor devil whose income is only
$4,000 900 a year by looping off
SOllltlilIIlS ling 90 pei CSHI VI Ilo
taxes. But as for the lucky dog
with a family and an income of ST.
900, we'll he had better hustle out
and somehow, from somewhere dig
up S165 more than he did. last year
if he hopes to get through the next
twelve months without going deeper
into the hole of debt than he did
in the twelve months just passed.
Now, if you think this is all cam
paign trash; if you believe Mr.. APP
pleby that sugar and meat and fish
and clothing, whether they be of
silk or wool or cotton. and hard
ware and nearly everything else that
the average American family finds
necessary to it's existence, isn't going
to cost you a whole lot more on &C
count of this tariff. and if you don't
believe me when I tell you that it
will, just go to the men who sell
these things and ask them.
II read last Friday in the Asbury
Park Press an advertisement by the
Steinbach Company in which this
big department store, the owners of
which, by the way, are Republicans,
warned prospective customers to bug
now because, as they said, prices
could not be as low again within a
year at least, or account of the dut-
les imposed by the new tariff"