Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-11-01
OH. CONSISTENCY! WHERE ART THOU?

We want to admit this fact to start with, that it is
much easier to criticize those who are trying to do
things, than it is to get into the game yourself and hit
the ball-when hits are most needed and yet it seems
that at times criticism is justified and right.
Again, we will admit that the science of govern
ment is probably the most difficult undertaking, the
one least understood, and the one that produces the
most boos and catcalls for the man who occupies a
place of public trust, and thereby has his actions
daily broadcast before an interested but not always
sympathetic audience.
Once upon a time, somewhere, someone is credited
with making the statement that consistency, thou
are a jewel." We take it to mean that Consistency
is something of value, something to be admired, and
something that means a right course should be pur-
sued in one direction, without any too much wob-
bling. We think this applies not alone to individuals
but to governments and government officials as well.
The agrlculturlsts of the west and middle west,
who have been producing the raw materials from
which sugar is made, have been fighting for a prin-
clpal. They believe that as long as the products pro-
duced on American farms are less than the amount
consumed at home, that there should be no restric-
ton as to acreage or amount grown. They believe
that the raw material from which sugar is processed
grown in continental United States does not make
the oyerproducti0n from which the United States
sugar markets are suffering. Because of this prin-
cipal they have asked that restrictions be placed up-
on the amounts imported-and that plea has been
denied them.
In fact, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the
administration are declaring that acreage in the
United States now planted and producing sugar cane
and sugar beets be r~educed-thus allowing a larger
importation of sugar from Cuba and other foreign
countries.
We wonder, however, how Mr.. Wallace and the adj
mlnlstratlon can claim or be regarded as being at all
consistent, when we learn that these same admins
traitors OF our government have decided to place an
QmharOO IN Honor cbipD,on+c ero~o -. ~I
when the Eighteenth amendment is repealed, for the
sole purpose OF protecting an American industry,
In other words, 1t seems that our government plans
10 protect the liquor manufacturer and the LIQUOR
dealer by restricting importation from competing
sources outside the boundaries of the United States
while lmportations are permitted and solicited of
cattle, hides, sugar, poultry products, dairy products,
wheat and about everything that is produced bv the
American farmer.
Ii embargoes are permissible on. liquor why is it
not possible on farm products? Surely our American
farmers are worthy Of protection the same as brew
ers and distillers.
The above is a reprint from the ScottsbIuff Daily Star.
Herald OF October 26, 1888, to which we are in hearty ac
,ord' except we want to commend the government if il
ioes put an embargo on the Importation of alcoholic
beverages of every kind and description when prohibi.
ION is repealed, which apparently will not be long now
One OF the principal arguments for repeal was that il
would furnish an additional market for American grain
ma frult produced by American farmers and fruit grow
ana mat the manufacturers of liquor in America
YOU'D furnish considerable work for American labor.
what excuse could now be offered to allow importa-
ions oil liquor OF any kind or description when an ample
.,upply can and will be manufactured in America. with
American grown products and American labor? For that
natter, there is no excuse to allow any Importation of
into this country that we can and do produce.
= suInclent amounts, or for which we can produce a sub
ti.u'e. stopping lmportations of this character is the
my way that we can ever put back to work all of the fif-
cen million unemployed, and until the unemnlovad aro
nut back to work in productive employment, there can he
Q permanent return of prosperity.
There IS not SO much a surplus of agricultural products.
any, In this country, as there is underconsnmntion On
ccount OF unemployment and lack of purchasing mower
uetting back to the sugar industry. Instead Of reduc-
70 the acreage of sugar beets and sugar cane in this
'un'fy' II should be increased and encouraged, placing