Evening journal., 1922-07-27
IT'S AMAZING FEATURE

viewed by discerning Delawareans the mos
IA amazing feature Of the campaign being waget
the Of American protective tariff
the brszen admission the press and tn,
importing interests that they upon successful,
deceving the the retail interests Of tn,
the belief that the proposed is
mical the retail Interests and the woman
II the and the retailers would stop for mo-
consider the situation they could not escape
the conclusion that campaign of the importing in
terests is inherently deceptive These interests are
openly spending hsndreds of dollars to
feat the enactment OF the proposed tariff.
They are keeping a corps of speakers travelling
throughout the country addressing merchant associa
tons. conventions chambers of commerce. etc. in op-
position to the proposed tariff They sending
tons of literature the and to
membership OF clubs against proposed tariff
They sending arst-class postage TO
hundreds OF thousands Of people protesting the
enactment of the proposed tariff. They are employing
writers to produce feature articles the proposed
tariff Even the merest amateur knows that this
of campaign is costing tremendous sums of money.
Those back it claim they are animated only by the
unseihsh desire to the consumer money,
by the high Of being robbed by
the American manufacturer That the importing in
this country should expend such enormous
wholly disnteresed altruistc purpose
Of saving money the American woman and the
American retailer is silly proposition be
sdered seriously by anyone giving a second thought
The conclusion lis logical and unacceptable that inn
porting interests which spending these enormous
of money defeat protective tariff be
prohting many those OF money by the free
trade law which have. They financing the
campaign against the pending tariff bill
a desire 10 the American woman any money
but out of desire to conditions
to rob the American consumers by buying chespy
goods abroad and selling them in this country at
profits amounting from 200 several thousand per
cent
The retailer outside of the metropolitan cities has
cause for a this campaign. The large i'm
porting interests. who also conduct a mail order bus-
ness are buying abroad in shipload The ultimate
destination Of great percentage of these goods is the
Aaoe territory Of the merchant in the average
isf'can city and the smaller towns. There the
east doubt but that the local trade territory Of the
nome merchant will be flooded with these cheap
goods purchased abroad flooded bv the large aenart
men stores and importing interests that are now try
ing 70 enlist the support the home merchant IN de-
feat the pending protective tariff
me successful elimination OF this program OF the
importing interests and large department stores which
have mail order business means not onlv ~ - ,,
OF the trade territory Of the home merchant vvh.h -
itself would be disastrous. but it means tho ,h,
out of employment OF American working neon,o ~,
cannot produce articles In competition with the
bought abroad This will deprive the local merchan..
Of the patronage of the working people who will b
without job and therefore without the means where
with to buy.
There has been policy before the country
that was deserving the support Of the local
home merchant and the American consumer not only
standpoint of patriotism from the cold
b.ooded standpoint OF dollars self preser
vaton than the policy protective designed TO