Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1926-09-12

''Why are all the tons of in
spired literature exaggerating
and lauding the Harding-Cool-
idge Administration and their
achievements beyond the wild
est flights of the imagination, to
be scrapped and abandoned, while
the party of great moral ideas
falls back to the last refuge of
those who seek a favorable YER
dict on an issue long recognized
by intelligent persons to be
fake and a fraud?
Ignoring Public Morals
"This sinister and unpatriotic
prosperity appeal basely as
sumes that the voters will con-
suit their stomachs alone and
ignore any purpose or duty to
safeguard the morals, spiritual
and humane side, and also the
high ideals which lie at the
base of our free institutions.
What is to become of the boosted
Republican achievements in be-
half of agriculture, in the prac-
tice of morals and honesty and
equality, and in the promotion
Of better understanding and
friendship among nations? Aye,
it is precisely this shameless and
sordid record that they vainly
seek to dodge and cover up. I
wonder what the 3O,0OO,OOO
persons connected with impover-
ished agriculture think of the
new prosperity issue?
Prosperity is to be shouted
from the housetops by paid Re-
publican speakers as a device to
blind and chloroform the people
to the greatest menace to free
government today, viz. the whole
sale corruption of voters and pur-
chase of elections in Pennsylvania
and Illinois, for which the Re-
publican party is responsible.
President Coolidge has a wonder
full opportunity for service by
denouncing tn csc disgraceful
scandals which stain the history
of the Republic, as Roosevelt de-
nounced Lorimer, and demanding
restoration of decent stand
ards of political ethics, public
morals, and official honesty. He
cannot afford to hug Ware Of
Pennsylvania and Smith of IL
iinois to the bosom of his Ad-
ministration.
From The Catacombs
"The soup-house myth is drag
ged forth from the Republican
catacombs and made to do over
time in brazen effort to play
on the fears Of the ignorant and,
if possible, to soften the growing
opposition to the inequalities
and extortions of tariff system
more highly protective than any
IN fiscal history.
Imports of dutiable finished
manufactures afford the one
true test of whether tariffs are
competitive, protective, or pro-
hibitive. Thus measured, the
Fordney law is almost an en-
barge. Eliminating burlaps, which
we do not produce, and equal
izing prices, the imports Of these
finished articles, which all the
people buy to use or wear, were
$442,00O,000 for 1925 compared
with $465, 100000 for 1914, not
withstanding our great increase
in consumption. Since retail
sales aggregate $4O,OOO,0OO, 900
per annum, these tariff prohibi-
tons would appear almost air
tight.
"Tariff revenues, the average
ad valorem rate, and the per-
centage of free imports offer no
test of the true nature OF
tariff structure. England, vir-
tually without the protective
principle, has near 759s tariffs
and revenues of $4,000, 900.
We could raise $500, 900, 900
from sugar alone. It is almost
exclusively from articles we do
not produce, or produce in in
sufficient quantities, plus GER
tain specialties the rich import
regardless of tariffs, that our
tariff revenues are derived.
"The tariff is prohibitive on
most competitive goods which
the masses must buy. The far