The Washington times., 1922-01-21

congressman pass It, they will hear about IL next
| election.
desperate effort is made to inject into the tariff bill
a so-called American Valuation plan"
This is warning to American merchants, American con-
sumers and CONGRESS.
That American valution proposition in the tariff bill is
q scheme to put the American consumer and merchant
at the mercy of grating monopoists
American valuation goes through, the importer OF
goods from Europe will be told AFTER the goods get
here what "the American value is
That value will be fixed by men frequently enough
taken Of by monopolstic interests They will fix
that artificial VALUE at any price that the home brand
Of monopolists may desire
Why Mr.. Fordney and other Congressman so
eager for that American valuation scheme? It ap
peared in any other American tariff It is commercially
utterly nonsensical It would make business chaotic,
making 1t impossible for merchants to plan intehgenty
for imports and accurate merchandising.
Protection is good thing properly managed 1t costs
much more for labor in America than in Europe There
fore allowance should be made to add that cost in the shape
of tariff the price for which the goods sell in EUROPE
you believe that merchants here, farmers any
other class should be protected against unfair competition
from abroad then find what the goods cost in EUROPE
and add whatever protection you think right.
The abest merchants in this country, that do bust
in tens of millions year, younger merchants just
able growing into big business ALL without exception
denounce the deceitfu dishonest cevery devised Amer
Valuation scheme It is nothing but plot to enable
individuals in the United States to maintain certain
Let monoposts here politicians to fix the American
value and, of course they will put tariff that will
make it impossible for anybody to compete with them
and they wiA charge what they please.
What said in this newspaper today will be put before
the eyes of at least fifteen million voters throughout the
United States in other newspapers Those voters will be
heard from at the next election this Congress decides that
it will pass special newfanged tariff bill to enable local
monopoists TO CHANGE THE TARIFF FROM MONTH
TO MONTH AS THEY MAY SEE FIT.
We have had fine sample of what happens when Govern
ent licenses public potential blackmales and bride takers
The prohibition mess has shown that
What will happen when individuals are chosen to decide
for the benefit Of home moncpoists just what shall be
charged in the way of q tariff?
For instance the Tariff Commission at Washington has
received from the Bohemian glass company in New York
letter. dated January 49, concerning the American vaua
ton plan as it will affect glass.
There is Just firm in the United States that manufac
lures plate glass of q certain thickness
That particular be highly honorable at the
top perhaps not quite honorable you 60 down.
when it comes to deciding the AMERICAN VALUE OF
THE PRODUCT ON WHICH 1T HAS MONOPOLY
HOW WILL 1T DEAL WITH THE PARTICULAR INDf
vIDUAL CHOSEN TO DECIDE WHAT THAT AMER1
CAN VALUE IS?
Gould ANYTHING be preposterous than a law that
would make it impossible for American business men to
in advance with certainty as TO costs ana tnere
fore as to retail price?
At the beginning of the year merchants buying that
which they will sell the FOLLOWING fall How can they
buy today goods that will be imported perhaps next autumn
goods that not yet manufactured they must wall IN
definitely until somebody whose only knowledge Of tho
goods is what the American monopost may have told him.
shall decide on what the American valuation" is?
The tariff should protect all legitimate American inter
ests against unfair impossible European competition
All we Americans want to spend our money with our
that produce goods home and wherever pos
be to give the preference to the home product But we
do not want to out all the rest of the world pretending