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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1919)
FRIDAY, 0CT011RII 10, 1019 THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Every Friday t Springfield, Lac County, Oregon By MILLER A FREELAND LYNX W. MILLER H. B. FREELAND Entered at the Postoffice at Springfield, Oregon, at Second clan Matter, February 24. 1903. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES.: One Year $2.00 Three Months. 6U Months 11.03 Single Copy One Year. W'heu Paid In Advance 60c 6c $1.75 The postoffice department should amend Its recently-announced rule that fowls and animuls may be shipped by panels post by making It applicable only to geese and ele phants which are said to live to the age of one hundred years. Tnder the caption "Footprints ft PiotKfr ravs." the Cottage Or?"" Sentinel is printing each week Inter esting rt-rvniscences of the early set tlers in that part of the valley, the data being furnished by the men and women who made the early-day foot-prints. "What has the special session of congress done?" asks the publicity bureau of the democratic national committee in its weekly sheet Issued for the use of democratic editors. Maybe the d. es. don't, know, so we will say that the special session as a starter passed within a few days rumber of very necessary appropria tion bills which its predecessor, the democratic congress., haggled over for many months, much to the em barrassment of the democratic administration. "Good Skinning Will Give Better Hides" is the headline over an article in the Weekly News Letter, a publi cation of advisory character issued by our paternal government at Wash ington, D. C. Lacking time to read the article, but jumping to conclusions, we would say that its writer is mistaken. The great majority of Americans (those whom W. J. B. used to so fondly term "the plain people") have been frequently and very efficiently skinned during several years past, and they are still being skinned and if it keeps up much longer they won t have any hide left, good or bad. The Wall Street Journal evidently an unprejudiced authorty says: "Since 109 the I'nited States has produc-pd over 7,700,000 automobiles. Half of these were manufactured since the end of 1915. Manufacturers propose to put out over 2.000.000 cars valued at $1. .'00.000.000. in 1920. Rome think the horse is doomed to the fate of the Great Auk, or at the best, a cage in the Bronx Zoo. But on the contrary horses are on the increase. There are 21.534.000 in the country now, and of their poor relations, the mules, there are 4.925,000, and the total value is $2,800,000,000. The equine family was never more numer ous, or valuable. In Europe, the American horse is more popular than tourists, for they are going over by thousands, and in 11 months added $5,000,000 to our export trade. The liorse holds a place in our life which no mechanical invention can supplant." JAPAN'S PROBLEM "A mighty catastrophe confronts Japan and her elder statemen know it," writes Wm. Dudley Pelley In Sunset Magazine. "It is the catastro phe of democracy sweeping over the world, kicking kings off their thrones, cleaning the-houses of nations of dia dems and coronets and royal purple. It is a spirit imbuing peoples to think for themselves, and if it gets into Japan the whole fabric of the empire will crumble. She's directly in the path of the steam roller and these damnable Christians with their Irre sponsible ideas about every man be ing as good as every other man in the sight of his God and that peoples can govern themselves without any direction from royal bigwigs, are fir ing the old boiler at the rate of a mile a minute. The only way to stop it la to kill the hand at the throttle and the other hands manipulating the coal Into the firebox. "Japan is not Christian. She is pa gan in Christian clothes. Christianity hasn't yet reached her heart. It may have taken a world war to make Christianity touch our own hearts, but Japan has felt little of it And bo she fails in her policy with the Koreans because she knowa nothing of the milk of human kindness when dealing with a weaker people. And there's the devil to pay! A MISFIT SUGGESTION American Economist Naturally all the foreign countries which are debtors to the I'nited States for loans amounting to $10,000 000.000 are in favor of paying their debts in commodities rather than In coin. No one can blame them for wanting to square accounts In trade rather than cash. But is the United States to keep right on playing fairy godmother to all creation? Having loaned billions of our money to the war-stricken nations of the rest of the world, must we now cancel the debts by taking from our debtors vast quantities of things which we do not need because we are making them for ourselves? That seems to be what our foreign friends and many of our domestic free-traders are trying to induce us to do. There Is some thing that looks like a concerted ef fort, a sort of propaganda, to bring about the surrender of our own mar ket to foreigners in order that the foreigners may discharge their finan cial obligation by sending us manu factured products. Think of It! Ten billion dollars worth of goods which we don't need. In return for ten bil lion dollars loaned to foreign coun tries! A beautiful scheme for the foreign debtors. Fun for the boys, but death to the frogs: European boys, American frogs. A rather peculiar feature of this goods-for-money propaganda is seen in the fact that It is being urged by the British. A country that has aban doned free-trade and taken up the protective policy Is asking this coun try to abandon protection and take up free-trade! That would be a pic nic for Great Britain. Yet it Is seri ously advocated by British business men; also by a good many American free-traders, notably Secretary Ued field. of the department of commerce, who not long ago appeared in print with the proposition that it was alike our duty and interest to contiue to finance Europe by letting Europe pay its debts in goods. Truly a remarka ble proposition to emanate from an American cabinet officer. But It Is easily explained. Mr. Iledfield Is well, he is Mr. Redfield. One can hardly imagine a member of the Brit ish ministry of today advocating a policy that would open British mar kets to the low-priced competition of the whole world and thus paralyze British industry and labor. Great Britain will make 'no such mistake. Her government has abandoned free trade and adopted protection. But it would be a good thing for the industries and business of the I'nited Kingdom if the United States could be persuaded to step Into the free-trade trap. The latest expres sion along this line Is that of a prom inent British merchant, G. C. Hans Hamilton, member of a London firm (with a branch In Chicago), who writes to the Tribune urging lower duties that will enable Europe to sell goods in this country and thus be en abled to pay off all loans granted by the United States. Payment, be says, can only be made if the United States Is ready to buy liberally the products of Europe. If the United States is not willing to do this, says the Lon don man, she must be ready to write off her loans to Europe and content herself with her domestic trade and some trade with countries less affect ed by the war. The gentleman does not explain how we are to compete with foreign producers for trade In such countries If we need a tariff to protect our own market from the com petition of Europe. Surely If Europe or the Orient can undersell us in our own market they can undersell us In other markets. The London proponent of free trade la this country, who thinks, a Josh Billings did. that the best plat to have a boll Is on some other fellow, argues that the adoption of free-trado or a materially lower tariff couldn't bs undertaken at a more favorable mom ent because we can produce steel, coal and oil at a lower production cost than anywhere in Europe; also, because of our surplus of foodstuffs for export But he entirely overlooks a great body of diversified industries In which several millions of highly paid workers are employed Indus tries which, at the present rate of wages, could not possibly compete In our own market with the products of far cheaper labor In other countries, and in the absence of protective dut ies would have either to make a heavy cut In wages or else go out of busi ness. The Industries named steel, coal and oil might survive a low tar iff or no tariff system, though It is by no means certain that all of them could long stand up against the unre stricted competition of the rest of the world. But. In any event, these are rela tively crude Industries. It Ik In the higher linen of finished production that tariff duties ure needed to main tain our high wage rates Bnd our high standard of living. To abolish or materially reduce the tariff below the protective point would mean ruin to a great multitude of manufacturers and workers. Not all the needs of twenty Europes could Justify so mon strous n sacrifice. The closing suggest inn of the Lon don framer of an American economic policy that would put Europe on its feet and the United States on its back is that prolcttive duties might have to be ret. lined iiK.iinst such countries as Japan, where the cost of lalmr Is much below the rates paid in Europe and the United States. What's that? Protective duties against one nation, and free-trade for the products of all other nat'otis? Iuch this London "economist" want to plunge us into another war? That is what would surely happen if wo iui!tscd upon the exports of Japan a tariff higher than that on equivalent exports of other countries. It is a ridiculous sugges tlon, quite on a par with the rest of the l-ondon man's budget of tariff mistakes. Whatever tariff we have, it must be the same for all countries. WELL! WELL! Here is our old friend Noxal Flour BACK AGAIN BETTER THAN EVER This time it is made of our best local wheat blended with nn eastern hard wheat which makes a flour hard to beat For sale in every store in Springfield and at the mill GIVE IT A TRIAL AT OUR EXPENSE. EVERY SACK GUARANTEED. YOUR MON EY BACK IF YOU DONT LIKE IT SPRINGFIELD MILL AND GRAIN COMPANY If protective as ugalnst Japan, It must be protective against European na tion The London free trade propa gandist is out of his place. Ills tariff i lea are a misfit so far as thin conn trv is i oncertied. Every ship looks romantic except the ship we are In - I ituei son. TO THE DAIRYMEN OF SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT Have you all the cows you should keep or have you feed going to waste? In any event If you need a few more cows and conditions Justify the cx- pense, w will be glad to aid you financially. SUKINGKIELD FlltST NA- TIONAL BANK. News, $1.75 per year In advance. People of good temper are not at vas kind eople Morley. A Beautiful .Woman Iio you know that a beautiful wom an always has a good digestion. If your digestion Is faulty, cut lightly of meat, take an oirasloiiul dose of Chaiiilierlaiu's Tablets to strengthen your digestion. 1'rlcn "c. 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