The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-01-06

al comment or the SAY so" of some
one else for too much Of his informa-
tion regarding public affairs and
policies.
The opponents of protective tariff
are taking advantage of this fact to
attempt to create a general impress
sion that President Harding is luke
warm in his desire to have genuine,
effective protective tariff enacted by
this session of the Congress, and that,
too, right speedily.
The best way to judge OF what
President Harding thinks about the
need of a protective tariff and the
kind of tariff it should be, is to
turn to his words.
Wants Tariff Quickly.
Does he think the need for such a
tariff is urgent ? He does for he says:
"There is before you the completion
of the enactment of what has been
termed a permanent tariff law y
X. cannot too strongly urge an
early completion of this necessary
legislation" Note he characterizes
it as necessary in addition to being
urgent. That should stop the further
peddling of the economic piffie that
we should not and cannot enact any
tariff until conditions settle"-a
vague, foggy; indefinite but remote
futurity
Why does the President want early
enactment of a protective tariff Be
cause he says, at is needed to stabi-
lie our industry at home; it is es-
sential to make more definite our
trade relations abroad. More, it is
vital to the preservation of many OF
our industries"
Does the President take any stock
in the formula of the international
bankers, the importers; the pro-
leaguers and pro-European sympathi-
zers that in order to show a proper
sympathy for bankrupt and suffering
Europe we should turn our vast mar
kets over to Europeans for exploita-
ton, even though it does pull our in
dustries and our working classes
down to European levels and condi-
tions He does not. Upon that
point he says:
Must Not Destroy Ourselves.
Sensible of every obligation OF
humanity, commerce and finance;
linked as they are; in the present
world condition, it is not to be ar
gued that we need destroy ourselves
to be helpful to others. With all my
heart l wish restoration to the
peoples blighted by the awful World
war, but the process of restoration
does not lie in our acceptance of like
conditions. 1t were better to remain
on firm ground, strive for ample en-
ployment and high standards of wage
at home, and point the way to eff
cient work as the necessary remedies
to cure disaster.
at is not an unworthy selfshness
to seek to save ourselves, when the
processes of that salvation are not
only denied to others, but commend
ed to them. We seek to undermine
for others no industry by which they
subsist; we are obligated to permit
the undermining of none of our own
which make for employment and
maintained activities.
Now Is Accepted Time.
Is the President doubling Thomas,
a weakling; a timid soul, an oppor-
tunist who is afraid to tackle the
tariff because it is a big problem,
and would postpone its consideration
to some more favorable time He is
not. He says: Every contemplation,
it little matters in which direction
one turns, magnifies the difficulty of
tariff legislation; but the necessity
of the revision is magnified with it."
Does the President subscribe to the
international banker, pro-European;
free trade doctrine that we should
not protect our own industries by
safeguarding our markets against a
flood of foreign goods because we
thereby deprive Europeans of mar
ket and make it impossible for them
to pay us what they owe us =? He
most emphatically does not. He says:
Much has been said about the
protective policy for ourselves max
ing it impossible for our debtors to