The Carbon County news., 1931-09-17
MORE FAIRY TALES
BY GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD

Golfers Weekly edtorally repeats that the rates in
the Hawley- y-smoot tariff law put at such high
point that they responsible for increases in tariff
rates for retahaory purposes by Canada
1t seems strange that magazine with the pretensions
OF Collier would continue to repeat this assertion either
III ignorance Of the facts with willingness to deceive its
readers
Figures compiled by the United States Tariff Commits
sion III 1880 showed that Canada was COLLECTING laroer
percentage OF the valuation of imports from the United
States before our tariff law was passed than we
would collect under the increased rate of our new law
1he percentage of customs collections to valuation of i'm
ports was approximately the under Canada's old
law as the estimated percentage under our new law The
actual operations OF law has shown lower per-
centage than the tariff commission estimated But since
IN Canada's average included empire products which
carry 20 per cent reduction the actual percentage Of
collections to American import valuations subsan-
TALLY higher when recent Canadian rate raises made
than they under tariff law.
Consequently this talk about retaliation on account of
an American tariff lower than the Canadian tariff
grossly msrepresents the situation Canada with tariff
already higher than raised her rates for the pr
pose Of protecting her markets and putting her own
people to work supplying Canadas needs to lessen
unemployment. Governed by reaists, Canda would do
that regardless Of tariff legislation and so would the
United States But publications echoing the demands Of
the International bankers and ndustrialsts who have
put their eggs LII the European basket rather than of the
market continue to propaganda in favor of creating
prosperity III America by increasing the volumes of for
elgn products made cheap by cheapenng the worker In
order to make their stand up it necessary for them
to ignore disor the facts the Of the relative
tariffs Of the United States and Canada.
Fully two million workers iobess in this country in
the OIL COAL lumber glass and similar industries for one
reason only and that that have not given them tar
lit protection equal to the difference in labor costs at
home and abroad Because in Europe wages have remained
stationary since before the World War; and wages in the
United States increased than onehaf between 1914
and 1929 we have today tariff less protective at the time
OF It's passage than any have enacted in last half cen
tury This is, of course, theory contradictory to the
ideas WHICH organized and heavily financed bay yhoo
has impressed the American people, but it has this ad
yantage-it is statistcally true.
Ii Congress had promptly carried out the recommenda
ton OF President Hoover that every industry suffering
unemployment because of foreign cheap labor costs be
given adequate protection and proper defense had been
put up for this policy the ground of broad principle
neither the country the party in power would now be
worrying with serious problem Of unemployment The
country however, has been deceived by such arguments
as those presented editoraly in Golfers that for our six
per cent Of export trade afford to sacrifice our "a
per cent Of domestic trade in home market with a per
capita consuming power four times that of Europe and
eight times that OF the Orient Africa or South America
WHEN THOMAS TuE