The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-12-18
''Wild Jackasses?" Yes!

'sWild Jackasses?" Yes!
no ONS of wild jackasses," is Senator George H.
y Moses description of western nsurgent senat-
ors who are trying to make the tariff fair to
the west.
The New Hampshire senator is fredericksburg
y right We westerners have been jackasses and sons
OF Jackasses to go generation after generation pay
ing high tariff rates for the benefit of New England.
New England industries have been fostered at the
expense of the west The factories of the senator's
home state and the states adjoining been kept
going through high protection for which the west has
paid The states of the great valleys and beyond have
been held up for artificial prices on textiles on Shoes
jewery to support the uneconomicaly situated in
dustries of New England.
AS industry has moved south and west to the
sources of the material, New England industries
have clamored for everncreasing tariff protection to
them. And the west has yielded to their clamor.
has it's cost of living lifted unnatural levels
to meet the demands of New Hampshire and its neigh
bors. 1t has put its hand in its pocket to subsdize
factories that could not maintain themselves in COM
petition with better located industries without pro-
hibitive protection.
Jackasses? Senator Moses has used precisely the
right word But he used the right adjective too when
he said "wild" jackasses.
For the jackasses have been goaded too far. At
least they have turned and running wild in the
senate new England and It's allies not stop them.
What exhibition of folly from the states that
have been the benefcares of the tariff system at the
expense of the rest of the country!
The insurgent senators the spokesman of a
deep-seated economic discomfort. There is nothing
personal in this revolt. 1t is vast section
of the country that is speaking through the men who
are fighting for just tariff.
If these individuals not protesting the states
would send other senators to voice their resentment
| he adj the prono
gives to the industrial east.
And yet the representatives of the tariff benefc-
aries blind that of them can sheer at the
insurgents "sons of wild jackasses," and another
(Reed of Pennsylvania refer to them as worse
than communists
Apparently the republican old guard has forgotten
what happened when ignored western protests on
PayneA tariff in 1909. In 1910 the jackasses
the west wild and two years later only two states
| remained in the republican fold.
Does the old guard want another similar uprising !?
Such men as Moses and Reed doing their best to
incite revolt against eastern control that may easily
become revoltion.-Kansas City Star.
The Letter sc"
t<N OMEONE has decided" says the Tacoma Bull
\ letin, "that the letter e. is the most unfort-
innate letter in the alphabet, because it is al
ways out of cash. forever in debt out of DANGER
ever, in that it is in war; and always in peace
And deeply indebted to this little letter, since
it is the beginning of existence, the of
case and the end of trouble. Without it there would
be meat, no life, and heaven. 1t is the center
of honesty and although it starts off in error ends
in making love erfect."-Linotype News.
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Sometime we'll come to learn that Christmas
means not just Christmas for day but happiness
for always for all the little children the happy ones
and sad Ones the silent and sober ones the bosterous
and glad Ones the professionally good ones and all
of happiness which spells joy for these chdike minds
and hearts shall have outgrown Christmas itself.
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Shifting the Gears
Commander Byrd is an American by birth, but
his ways quite Polish.
Amercanism: Thinking all big business is crook
ed unless it happens to be run by Henry Ford
Some Christmas club savers may have saved
enough to pay the final instalmen on last years pre-
| sents.
good many screen actresses marry their man
ayers after which the latter do percepbly less
] aging
The wife of George p He'll of Des Moines was
granted divorce with alimony and there'n be Mrs.
He'll to pay
We eagerly await the invention of a radio set
that will automatically tune out all moaning tenors
and about Is per cent of the other kind.