Evening star., 1932-09-21
This Is Gods Country
And 1t Will Recover
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
hternationalists periodically attempt
to ruin the United States by mixing
in with affairs across the sea. What
this proud country is today Is due to
our protective tariE. Senator Smoot
well says in recent issue Of the Satur-
day Evening Post the present phase
OF internationalism is to tear down the
tariff walls.
first saw the City of New York in
1877, when most Of 1t above Forty
Today the structures in this neighbor-
hood represent billions. Since 1877
New York has built and rebuilt itself
many times. Since the advent of the
tariff, what Is true Of New York is true
Of the Nation. If there Is one bridge
to rebuild probably we may find thou
sand more In all probability our en-
tire railroad system may be entirely
rebuilt in the next 80 years. But If
we tear down our tariff walls to enable
our mass production producers of auto
mobiles to tear down the automobile
business of other countries, New York
may become another goat town and the
Nation another China. Any dumping"
from foreign nations we cannot stand.
Experts have said good roads have
automobiles in this country. If there
is anything the matter with the auto
business, maybe that is it. Another
thing, I believe, as was said by one of
our philosophers think 1t was Emer-
Son-if q man builds a perfect mouse
trap and locates his factory in a forest
the world will beat pathway to his
door to get the perfect trap. So it is
with our automobiles-if our producers
build perfect machines and know how
to advertise, especially in foreign coun-
tries.
I contend that the world depression
was not due to our tariff restrictions.
I may be a crank on the subject, but
believe it came about from the effort
of England three or four years ago to
put India Oh the gold basis, securing
the gold by dumping vast quantities of
silver on the market. sending silver
down like plummet from "a cents an
ounce to IS, Wiping out the purchasing
power Of the Orient and the silver
using countries of Mexico, Central and
South America. We manufacture on
a gold basis and try to sell to those
countries that are on silver. Thus, if
the water boy Of Mexico seeks to part
with his donkey by saving silver to buy
a Ford, he finds the more he saves the
icSS iic HdS. lHc JiLIlCkSnd DOy OF
China four years ago laid by two Mexs
to one gold dollar toward the pur-
chase of a Chevrolet; now he has to lay
by five MeXS instead Of two. The dam
sci in India who seeks an American
gingham dress pattern, toward the pur-
chase of which she melts her silver
ornaments. now finds the coveted dress
pattern receding from her gaze.
The writer is for the gold standard
but not to the point Of our getting all
the gold in the world. which is a pros
pect in the near future. He is cog
infant Of the Gresham monetary law
and the Bryan l6 to | fallacy. and
contends there should be an interna-
tional conference to restore the pur-
chasing power of silver. The most
ridiculous bugaboo that ever emerged
from New York was the danger of our
going of the gold standard. To DO it
We would have TO dynamite mountain
of gold. John Sherman had only a
small hill when he resumed specie pay
ments in 1879. 1 conclude with the
statement business men will be worried
sick for fear Hoover will not be re-
elected, and economists inside of two
years will be asking what shall We do
with our twin mountain of gold for
this Is Gods country and will recover
JEREMIAH JOHNSON.