The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-02
The Roar Grows Thunderous

The Roar Grows Thunder0us
Date lines on those cablegrams received by Presl-
dent Hoover and members of congress in protest
against the tariff bill proclaim true story OF al
venture-the story of how American business mas
gone into PARKWAY corners Of the world to seek an
outlet for the goods that could not be consumed
at home.
IT takes courage to send forth the first missionary
of progress to sell automobiles in the land Of the
Hottentots.
1t requires brains and energy to open new trails
for a commodity to which strange peoples have not
become adjusted And it requires time, the most
precious thing in the world, to do it,
But General Motors from whose representatives
the cablegrams are pouring in saw that It's output
was running ahead of its American market.
1t did the obvious thing. 1t opened new markets
markets that the tariff bill threatens to destroy
And what General Motors did, thousands OF other
American manufacturers have done. They have
established new trade lanes Obstacles notwitnsano-
ing they have created demand for their surplus
orr total exports have risen to 1924 100000
Thus we have had prosperity in the United States.
We haven't so much prosperity now. We are going
to have less if the tariff bill becomes law. For
if that bill passes other nations will erect barriers
against American-rnade goods If they do factories
which no longer can sell their products ABROAD VIII
be forced to curtai their output at home ana tnaS
means men will be thrown out OF JOBS and the buying
power of those men destroyed.
With the home consumption thus retarded, more
men and stll more men will become idle. Where II
will end, nobody knows.
It was because it understood all this that General
Motors cabled to its representatives overseas asking
them to apprise the President and congress OF tner
attitude toward the proposed high tariff
And now the replies are pouring in on Hoover ana
members of the senate and house-aH protesting
against the proposed new schedules The caoiegraHS-
They come from China-frorn China, to which
America sends missionaries to teach clv1lzaClon "
the Oldest civilization in the Worlo-ano Se10
S124 10000 worth of exports a year.
They come from India-from mysterious India
where the temple bells are ringing on the road 10
Mandalay: where Gandh lowly and penniless has
inspired multitude to proclaim I'VE shall be free!
where S5500OO0O of our exports CO.
They come from Brazil, once the dumping ground
of slave seekers who herded their captives like cat
tIe where the wolf and the jackal stink through Tor
ests that vet have to know the OF man, but whose
cities and villages take $1080O0000 Of our exports.
From, Australia. whose area already was dry land
when vast tracts of Europe and Asia were yet SUD-
merged; where the Great Barrier Reef OF coral is
as defiant as tariff wall; but where our manutac-
rers have sold our surplus products up to $l5OOOO
900 year.
From Belgium, exposed to wars as far back as the
DAYS when Louis XIV coveted the Netherlands In
behalf of his wife, the Infanta Maria Theresa
From France to which Gold Star mothers from
America have gone to bow their heads at the graves
of loved ones Who sleep among the peoples OF Flan-
ders field.
From Germany, which lost its colonies ana kaiser
in the World war and gained republic; from Egypt
land of the Pharaohs; from South Africa, where
stinkwood and s1eezewood trees are grown. home OF
the Bushn1an and the Hotentot land of savagery and
culture of the primitive and the progressive from
Poland from Sweden, from Denmark, from Uruguay;
from the Argentine-from over the world they come
these protests against destruction Of our trade
Yes there is romance in the date lines OF those
cables. But there is serious business in them, too.
Generally the man who lives in Medicine Hat or
Kokoo does not stop to think that the question OF
whether he Is to have food and shelter depends much
on what is done by the people of South Africa or
Brazil or Australia But it does. 1t does IN tneSe
davs of mass production, rapid communication. and
TRANSFORMATION For we, the people Of the United
States no longer can be thing apart from the rest
of the world.
Our machine age has forced industry to outgrow
our own buying power
We must have an outlet for our surplus. We VIII
not have an outlet if the tariff bill passes Our destiny
is in the hands of congress and Hoover.