, 1922-06-29
PRODUCER MUST
Be Protected
MANY fALLACIOUS Arguments PRE-.
SENTED BY FREE TRADERS TO
DECEIVE WOMEN VOTERS

NOW tnat women nave q vote, the
free traders are making a special
effort to deceive them into believ-
ing hat a Republican protective
tariff will force them to pay ar ex-
cessive price for goods. The plea of
the Democrats has always been to
the consumer - the producer be
damned. 1t is u guess that the
great majority OF American women
voters have discernment enough to
know that the first great essential "a
prosperous production, for without
prosperous production there can be
no satisfactory consumption. The
wife of a producer is interested in
her husbands earning power. and
h is not likely to vote for the po-
litical party that would throw her
husband out of employment in order
thai she may buy more cheaply
commodities made in Europe or
Asia.
The Democratic policy Is buy
where you can buy the cheapest"
That means, in actual practice. that
we should buy our wool in Aus
tralia or South Africa. our silk goods
in the Orient, our hides in Mexico,
our beef in Argentina. cotton and
wool manufactures in England, cut
lery, optical goods, and various other
commodities in Germany, glassware
in Belgium. lemons in Italy, and SO
on down the list. If we are to main
tain our American standard of liv-
ing, the American producer cannot
successfully compete with the prices
foreign producers are able to quote,
and the American producer, under a
Democratic tariff would. in normal
times, sell only what the foreigner
could not supply.
II we are to buy abroad. as the
Democrats would have us do. in the
alleged interest of the consumer,
then the American producer must
either close down entirely or great
ly curtail his production. Every
producer who diminishes his OPERA
ton reduces the number Of his en-
ployees and the market for American
goods is thus further curtailed.
It Is an economic fact often re-
peated, but not fully appreciated.
that a dollar spent for productive
purposes in the United States changes
hands ten times in a year. The wage
Garner spends the dollar for food. the
merchant pays it over to the whole
saler, the wholesaler hands 1t or to
the manufacturer or packer, the
manufacturer uses 1t to buy from the
farmer, and the farmer buys cloth
ing. and so on. II that dollar be
sent to Europe or Asia. 1t circulates
there, doing the service 1t should do
in America.
Records Of the Democratic admin
istration show that when the Under
wood tariff law went into effect in
1913 we had a balance of merchant.
disc trade in our favor. but that bal
ance steadily declined until April,
1914, when we were actually buying
more goods abroad th.n we were
selling abroad. lie seems incredible.
but it is true that this, the greatest
producing nation in the world, was
buying more than 1t was selling. and
for the simple a that q Demo-
cratic tariff aw made 1t easy to i'm
port foreign goods. AS a result,
American mills were closed and there
were millions of men out Of en-
ployment until the var in Europe
shut off imports and created an un-
precedented foreign demand for Am
erican goods.
In the face of these records and
the indisputable fact that We must
have prosperous producers before we
have consumers, 1t Is incredible that
any considerable number Of women
will be misled into voting for the
privilege Of buying goods in foreign
lands at prices with which American