The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-06-30
FIXING A TARIFF THAT
WILL INCREASE PRICES
Republicans in Congress Working to
Increase Profits of Rich Manufac-
turers. Money for the Shipping
Trust but None For The Soldiers.
Democrats Who Voted For Harding
Ought to be Sick.


Democrats Who Voted For Harding
Ought to be Sick.
Washington, D. C.,-Special-The
many things which the Republican
party and President Harding are
backing in Congress show that party
is running true to its record Of look
ing after the interests of the big rich
while the ordinary folks are left to
paddle their own canoe.
- just now the country is shocked at
what the Republicans in Congress are
undertaking to do in passing the
tariff bill. A tariff, the public has
learned, is nothing but a tax. The
fact that it is tax placed upon goods
brought into this country from some
foreign country does not make it any
less tax which the people at large
pay. The Republicans try to dis
guise it by saying that it is tax on
the foreigners goods. but they do not
state whatever the amount of the tar
iff tax is, is added to the cost which
the consumer must pay for the
goods. The country is beginning to
see that the tariff just enables rich
American manufacturers to add the
amount of the tariff tax to goods of
the same class which they make. The
are Showing the same old
blindness by talking about protect
ing American manufacturers against
foreign competition. The folks at
large ere thinking that if our boasted
American superiority and American
money cannot compete with England,
France and Germany now after wars
devastation, that they are not as wise
as we have been trying to make the
world believe we are.
The tariff bill now before the SEN
ate and which the Republican party
is trying to put through, will increase
the price of a $500 suit of clothes
to $4,000, the price of shoes will be
raised, and almost everything else
the people buy will be increased in
price and the increase will go into the
pockets of the already rich manufac-
turers who contribute to Republican
funds. The Democrats are
doing ali they can to show up the in
iquities of the tariff bill and are get
ting some amendments adopted that
are good for the people at large.
President Harding is insisting on
the United States government voting
fifty million dollars a year for ten
years to the Ship Subsidy. In other
he wants the government to-
take $50,000,000 out of the United
States treasury and present it to the
rich ship owners who own ships that
carry merchandise back and forth
across the Ocean. The plea is that
-hese ship owners cannot compete
With foreign ships. But the question
IS filtering out among the people at
arge: Is the government voting any
hing to me to run my business? The
farmers all over the country are hard
pressed, but Mr.. Harding and other
Republicans are not asking that any
hing be voted them to help them out
If the hole.
Mr.. Harding is opposed to bonus
or the soldiers but he is in favor OF
axing everybody else for the manu-
'acturers and is in favor of voting
money to the shipping trust. Fifty
million dollars for Ship owners but
lot a dollars for the soldiers who won
he war. Republican patriotism of
he rankest kind.
The people all over the land are
ceiling sore and the refrain is com
ng up from every quarter: Is this
What we get by electing Harding?
rom what newspapers are saying
,ver the country; thousands and
thousands are repenting for the vote
asst for Harding.