The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-05-03
CONGRESSMAN SMITH ON IRE
BUILDING PROSPERITY"

BUILDING PROSPERITY"
In the closing days OF congress,
be specific ON March 2. Addison
Smith representative from the secon
congressional district of idaho deliy
cred an address which has been give
the significant title Rebuilding Pros
perity" in which ne shows that tn
wisdom of the protective tariff polio
of the republican party has agai
been indicated The address ha
been given wide publicity and shoul
be read by every citizen who desire
to know the truth regarding the re
juvenating effects of the Fordney tar
if law upon the industries of tn
country The speech has been pub
lished as bulletin No - and may b.
obtained upon application to the Am
erican Protective Tariff League. New
York. As indicating the line of hi
constructive argument. Mr. Smith be
gins his address with this pertinen
paragraph:
"Alr Speaker. il was the cele-
brated French anatomist Georges
Cuvier who, given the fragmen-
tary bone of a prehistoric verte-
brate, built up the animal as it
had once existed. and a subse-
quent discovery proved that his
restoration was complete in every
detail 1t is my purpose to-
day to take a few skeletal re-
mains to be found in the loess of
subsidng tariff debate, and in the
statistical collections now being
assembled by the department of
commerce, and to reconstruct so
far as | may, that mastodonic but
sentient creature American in
dustry as / anticipate it. for 1928
and onward l am confident that
the near future will show that the
creature which was paralyzed by
the Underwood tariff law of 1913.
terminated by the European blood
TRANSMISSION of 1914-191S. relapsing
under the strain of 1920. and Civ
en- first aid by the emergency tar
if law of 1921, will be fully re-
stored and revivified i'm the COM
ing year The renascence Of Am 81
erican industry is under way
That is a fact which brooks no de-
NAL IL needs but to he guarded
from those twin witches. free
trade and internationalism"
It would be impossible in the brief
space available to review the exhaus-
tive presentation of facts submitted
by the Idaho congressman. but it will
well repay the student of industrial
history to give it a careful reading. He
in no vagaries regarding the
beneficial effects of protection or the
disastrous consequences which invar-
iably followed the adoption of the
democratic policy of free trade. He
bases his arguments upon informa-
ton obtained from official sources
and his conclusions present an imam
awerable argument in support of the
'opublican policy of tariff protection
Having completed the task indicated .
n his open remarks Mr.. Smith re- (
'ans "the enervated and narcoticised
Industries of eighteen months ago"
md compares them with the activity
md prosperity of today which reminds
um of the passage in Tennyson's
Day Dream" picturing the revival
.fter the sleeping Beauty" whom
Ne may take TO represent industry.
iad been kissed by the Happy
'rnce," to whom we may assign the
ole of protection:
+, touch, a lissl The charm was snapt
There rose noise of striking clocks.
And feet that ran. and doors that
clapt,
And barking dogs and Growing
cocks;
/ fuller light illumined all
A breeze through an the garden
swept
4 sudden hubbub shook the hall,
And sixty feet the fountain leapt
rhe hedge broke IN. the banner Flew,
The butler drank. the steward
scrawld
The fire shot up. the martin flew,
The parrot screamed, the peacock
squalrd;
The maid and page renewed their
strife.
The palace banged and buzzed and
clacked,