Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

Our foreign trade authorities are not
| scoffing at the deluge OF tarih protests
drenching Washington from abroad but
| point out certain things in connection
With them, Of which the American pub
! lie is not aware. In the first place,
many OF the circumstances originating
in Europe are made by governments
with embarrassing domestic polltlcal
situations on their hands. In virtually
every cld-world country of importance
the government is in the hands OF
minority party-like Ramsay MacDon-
AIDS cabinet in Great Britain. Gov
ernmentS with troubles at home al
ways grasp with avidity at what Bis
marck used to call foreign diversions"
lie. something happening abroad to
which they can point with patriotic
alarm. That sort of thing commonly
takes the minds of peoples and poll
ticians of of troubles and worries near
err home. A year or two ago it was
Americas Shylockian debt policy, as it
was dubbed, which foreign statesmen
exploited for local political purposes.
Eow-at least, that's the way 1t looks
to certain keen authorities in Washing
| ton-it's Uncle Sans Shylockian tariff
| policy that is the best thing to kick and
to kick about.
A
| the proposed new American tariffs,
there's another side to that medal, too.
OF the 20 other American republics.
only 3-Cuba, Argentina and Uruguay
are seriously affected by the Hawley
rates. which the Senate finance COM
mittee Is now reviewing. But all Oh
those countries impose import duties
upon American goods, which, dollar Tor
dollar. represent a very conSlderaole
item in the revenue OF the Havana.
Buenos Aires and Montevideo govern
ments' Regarding the other II Latin
American states, the overwhelming
| oulk of their principal products--espe-
| ciallv from countries like Brazil and
| Chile-is on the United States free list.
! Commodities like coffee; copper. rub
Der and nitrate. to mention only the
| principal articles enter our Market
| without tariffs. BY and large, IL is
! claimed in Washington, Latin America
fares pretty well at our customs houses
and It's wall of woe is described as cor
respondingly unjustified.
| A Woodrow Wilson-William G.. Nc
| Adoo Democrat enters the State De-
partment in the person OF David Hunter
| Miller of New York, whom Secretary
| Stimson has just appointed editor OF
J ~.
| occupant of the new post recently Gre
ated by Congress. He accompanied Col
| Edward M. House to Paris in 1913 as
| legal adviser of the American peace
mission and drew up the final draft OF
| the covenant of the League OF Nations
| In 1924 Mr.. Miller was member OF the
group which submitted the unomclal
| American plan for disarmament and
security to the League. In that same
| AZ oPfigplv jnanEf1eC
with william c. McAdoo's presidential
| ambitions and was one of the COM
! manders of his forces at the Demo-
cratic national dissension in Madison
Square Garden.
J X X X
| The affair of Nine Wing Kao, wife
| of the former Chinese vice consul al
| San Francisco, who tried to smuggie
a million dollars worth OF opium into
| the United States, draws attention to
the fact that women seem to be the
chief offenders against the Harrison
narcotics act. The new Federal prison
| for female criminals at Anderson, w
/ Va. which now has population" OF
we'll over 300, is mostly filled with
women convicted either of being drug
addicts or professional peddlers OF dope
| The immigration authorities on the
West Coast have long been kept BUSY
watching for Orientals trying 10 crash
the Golden Gate with "hop" concealeo
about their persons. The Illicit stun
commands such fabulous prices that
Asiatics are willing to run wild risks
and resort to almost any ruse IN oroei
to reach American soil with q con-
signment Of the forbidden fruit.
| X X \ X
] A reader of these observations vouches
| for the veracity of this tale. He was
| speaking of the Cuban lottery. which Il
[ under government control, and remark
! inc that lotteries are against the Law
| IN the United States. Thereupon a
friend spoke up and volunteered the
suggestion that Cuban lottery tickets