The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-07-27

them STRANDED on L1e pIdlIIcS. 4HSy
arrived in New York in due time, met
Aunt Ina, and soon proceeded to Wash
ington." Aunt Ina was progressive
woman, and her first desire was to
meet the Lady from Oklahoma, Repre-
sentative Alice Robertson, affection
ately known to Congress as "Aunt AL
ice".
The latch-string of Aunt Alice's Of
flee hangs outside and its was no
trouble at all to secure chat with
her. She had just completed an ad-
dress which she was to present in the
House next day, and since Aunt Ina,
who had become somewhat influenced
by foreign ideas, had criticised the
Republican tariff bill, Aunt Alice took
occasion to set her right while the
children listened intently to what she
had to say:
"When l was young girl became
stenographer to a commission sent
to Indian Territory to make a treaty
with the Cherokees. The chairman of
the commission, Southern born and
bred, had been a major general and
prominent in our diplomatic service
Studies of labor conditions and ques-
lions of American protection and for
eign free trade had been a passion
with him. From him I first learned
that Americas battles, Americas vic
tory, Americas lasting freedom and
prosperity lay in protection. He was
insistent that Americas greatest war
fare was to be for her homes, to keep
her people above the horrors of for
eign free trade laborers. From that
time free trade and protection have
been my constant study, not from the
standpoint of a lawmaker but Of
plain American woman. There is no
argument that l have ever found ia
voring freee trade that has not been
completely demolished in considera-
ton. If we had before US a health
chart of American prosperity-such a
chart as is made for hospital patients,
and you could follow with me the up
and down wavering line of depression
and prosperity, it would startle you
to see no wthis line has followed a
protective tariff.
"There is in the heart Of woman
especially the woman who has had
the conceded duty, of caring for the
family and expanding the support pro
vided by man, the protector, a keen
interest in making the most Of what
comes to herr.
"There is a phase of protection
that have never seen fully explained,
at least not by woman. think you
and 1 will agree that there is nothing
i'm a woman's life quite like shopping"
Aunt Ina, who had returned with
three trunks filled with French luxu-
ries, agreed. Aunt Alice continued:
"Men do not know how fascinating
lit is. Marketing may be drudge, but.
shopping is delight. The great de-
|partment stores in our large cities are
the most seductive places on EARTH
First, there is the appeal of ADVERTISE
ments of about everything in about
every store below cost. And how
we women fall for these bargains
We do not stop to consider that if
there are actual reductions and be
low cost sales there must be some
tremendous profits to more than bal
ance them, because Of the millions:
and millions of capital invested in
these stores and the other millions
spent in advertising and like endless
expenses. But are they really bar
gains? Why, we are told that the
profits on imported wares run from
100 to 1000 per cent. The thought
less woman who buys the imported
hose or gloves or dress pattern little.
realizes that she may be contributing
towards her husbands or sons or
daughters idleness. We do not real
ize what the continued buying of for
eign-made goods may mean. We do
not stop to consider that every dol
lars worth, every hundred dollars
worth, every thousand dollars worth,
every million dollars worth of i'm
ported goods that are bought displac-
es just that amount of American
goods and deprives our working men
and women of just so much wages
Combine the words imported and re
duced' and the bargain becomes ir-
resistible.
"And so we must be protected
against our own acts. A protective
tariff is national safeguard. 1t di-
rectly and indirectly protects US all.
It promotes OppOrtunitv. it safeguards