Milford chronicle., 1928-09-21
AMERICANS OWN
THEIR OWN HOMES

In the United States of America
men and women are given the op-
portunity of living in their own
homes and paying for them over a
term of years while they are enjoy
ing all the benefits of home life with
their growing families. Contrasted
with this, it is pointed out by the
Ambassador from France to the
] United States, that in his country
and in most of the rest of the world,
( it is only after a life of deprivation,
and almost penury, that a wage
Garner can hope to own the roof
over his own head. With the keen
observation typical of the French,
Ambassador Claudel, ON his recent
return to France for a short So
journ, stated that in thirty years he
had noted a marvellous change in
the conditions of the people in the
United States. The thirty years un-
der observation tallies to a day with
the setting aside of strange political
theories in 1896, with the firm es-
tablishment of a gold standard for
our money, and the adoption of the
protective tariff policy for our labor
and industry through Republican
legislation.
Under the influence of our we'll
established policy on the tariff, our
industries have grown into the
worlds greatest units of production
labor has been raised to high es-
tate, and the pay-envelope of the
man or woman engaged in labor of
any kind is from three to ten times
greater than that of the, workers in
other lands. With some 55,000,000
men and women gainfully employed
in the United States, and earning, it
is estimated by the United States
Department of Commerce, close to
$100, 100000 a year, the prosper
ity of the country ought to be be-
yOnd question.
And yet, in the face of these
facts, and hardly drowned by the
millions of radios tuned in all over
the country, Chairman Raskob Of
the Democratic National Committee
says: Eyes. The country has been
prosperous, but it has been "spotty"
Interesting word that "spOtty''. 1t
evidently takes the place of Candi-
date Smiths reference to our pros
perity being a myth. Apparently
that did not "go" any too we'll, the
country acting on the theory that
seeing is believing" and we could
MT see the myth. So now, Long
Face Raskob, the harbinger of de-
preston, tells us to ''look for the
spots"
Have you ever seen a sales map
on the Office wall of one of our large
commercial organizations? Such a
map is usually marked with red,
white and blue pins, stuck in to
mark the principal trading centers,
county distributing points and active
towns. In the case of Henry Ford,
not entirely unknown in the auto
motive world, it requires some co.
600 pins to indicate the agents act
ing as his distributors. Each pin
represents an agent, and each agent
is factor in distributing evidences
of visible prosperity; "spotty" to be
sure, but the spots cover the whole
map.
Under the conditions which the
alert of other lands are quick to
note, it would seem that the men
and women of this country were in
deed blind if they do not see that
the dominating factor ip our pros
perity is the protective tariff prin-
ciple.
AS the Presidential campaign
swings into the second week of Sep
tember, it is taking definite form,
and from all sides the Importance
of the tariff issue begins to loom |
large. Fears as to the effect of |
tariff meddling come to light as in
dustries in Southern States, as we'll |
as those in the Atlantic Coast and |
border States, set up a protest |
against meddling with the heart Of !
business enterprise With "inex- |
perienced legislators tinkering with I
tariff schedules we have always had
a mess made of downward revision
by the Democrats" is the summary