We would call the attention of our members and subscribers to the rapidly increasing number of advertisers now using The Protectionist. These advertisers are buying this space, first, because it is a sound business proposition, the magazine reaching, as it does, the executive heads of the leading manufacturing interests in the East. And, second, the advertiser is taking this space to help the Club in its work of protecting American industries and American labor. The members. and subscribers of the Home Market Club will need no urging to show a spirit of co-operation with these advertisers.

"Let us have peace."

Economy in the use of the nation's money would help the situation.

The extremists are a menace to labor and a danger to the country.

Walter Weyl, an erstwhile admirer, now calls Mr. Wilson "a lath painted to look like iron."

Treaty making of the Wilson kind comes high not only in dollars but in sacrifices of national interests.

Talk about the necessity for economy. The monthly telephone bill of the War Department alone is $23,000.

Does this sound like Lincoln: That government of the league, by the league, for the league shall not perish from the earth?

The home market is first in order and paramount in importance. That is as true today as when uttered by Henry Clay in 1824.

Mr. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, says: "I am personally opposed to government ownership [of ships], except as a last resort."

The editor of the Herald of Asia says that "Japan cannot feel quite safe because of the existence of a League of Nations; nor indeed can England as indicated by her naval program."

If it was necessary for Congress to remain in session, was it not likewise necessary for the President to remain at his post in Washington and not desert it for weeks for the second time this year?

an increase over war times, is a mystery, uness it be that the Administration does not wish economy enforced and taxes reduced by the Sixty-sixth Congress.

According to official reports the total revenues of the 48 States during 1918 exceeded the expenditures for governmental costs, including interest and outlays by about $89,000,000aggregate revenues, $588,000,000, expenditures $499,000,000. To the expenditures should be added outlays for permanent improvements of $66,000,000, leaving on hand $23,000,000. Last year was a mighty hard year on the States, but they exhibited a stewardship of their tax payers' funds which puts the Wilson administration to blush no matter what excuse may be offered by the Federal Government. Why, there was more wasted by the War Department on the airplane program alone, by a great many millions of dollars, than was necessary to finance the 48 States over the hardest year in their history. And we never got the planes.

The Webb law which like so many legislative enactments, was expected to be a great boom for small manufacturers wishing to export their products to foreign countries, is not meeting with the entire approval of foreign countries or of men in our own. William H. Douglass, chairman of the Foreign Trade Committee of the Merchants Association of New York, regards it as a "fool" law intended to benefit the big men and not the little fellow. In Australia

it has aroused the opposition of business men who having agreed to give preferential tariff rates to Britain, assert that this country, "after having legislated to keep itself free from the powerful influences of trusts, has passed a special act to enable her manufacturers to form huge combines for the purposes of export trade and to enable them to crush manufacturers in other countries."

Mr. George L. Walker, in the Boston Commercial, in a lucid article on what the farmer did for the war and what he is now doing, says: "The American farmers have demonstrated conclusively that they are the most dependable men engaged in any single calling. Though hundreds of thousands of their employees were enticed away by offers of high wages to work in shipyards and munitions factories, and other hundreds of thousands, together with perhaps a million of their sons, were called to the colors, they did not threaten to strike and uttered few protests; but with all these handicaps they added to their working hours and increased the country's cereal harvest by more than a billion bushels. The potato crop of our first year in the war exceeded all previous records, the efforts of the farmers enabling this country to provision its own army and help enormously in the feeding of the European allies."

Startling proposals are constantly being made by uplifters and "social reformers," but the one which takes the prize for novelty and radicalism

is that put forward as a plank in the British Labor party's program. It is proposed that a minimum income shall be provided for every man, woman and child in the country and to raise the funds needed to produce the sum required for so huge a project it is provided that 20 per cent of all incomes shall be nationalized at the source, in other words confiscated and placed in a pool which would be devoted solely to providing a permanent weekly income of 9 shillings for everybody. It seems to be a shifting from the old age pension benefits which are raised by taxation to the expropriation of the incomes of the rich and well-to-do people of Britain. It will be interesting to see what headway this proposal makes. It may be confidently expected that this scheme or some counterpart of it will be pushed in this country before many years elapse.

"In this day, when all the world cries out for new systems of economics and government, the country should place its constructive men of the big business type in Congress," said Edward J. Hilton, of Baltimore, in an interview in the Washington Post. "Ordinarily business men of first-class ability are more than apt to hate the turmoil and cross currents of politics and refuse to give their time to public business, but this is no ordinary time. Today the whole nation is seething with discontent. The authorities of the states and the nation are called upon to think out and organize and put in operation new plans for the nation's well being.

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In 1910, 1911 and 1912 the Democratic politicians, abetted by the free traders without that party, attributing the high cost of living to the protective tariff then in force. Today, with cost of living never so high, they place the responsibility on the profiteer, never suggesting that gross extravagance, incompetence and wastefulness on the part of the party in power for the past six years have had any part in bringing about the deplorable condition in which the country finds itself. But the President himself who won his victory in 1912 on the high cost of living cry and in 1916 on the slogan, "he kept us out of war," now tells us with a solemn face that no reduction in

prices can come before his League Covenant is ratified. When it is approved by the Senate, he "will guarantee reduced prices." Notwithstanding this promise Attorney General Palmer, Mr. Wilson's confidant, announced on August 20 while the treaty was still in committee, that "the campaign to reduce the cost of living was bearing fruit," showing that Mr. Wilson is again trying to fool the people with a spurious remedy.

Less than one year ago a certain gentleman named Richard Hurd was rustling about the country securing signatures to a pledge never again to buy goods made in Germany. He got quite a number of them, too. For a long time, now, Germany has been scratched from the entries of the race for the American market, as was also Austria. But figures for June show Germany and Austria once more entered in the lists, the former selling us nearly a million dollars worth of goods, and the latter about $309,000 worth, since the armistice was signed. This must make Mr. Hurd feel very miserable, and when this little rivulet expands into a great river it will make many besides Hurd feel the same way. Fortunately, a Republican Congress is now in control of national legislation, and the House Ways and Means Committee has reported a measure which will, if it becomes a law, effectively withstand the attempt of Germany to destroy dye and chemical industries built up here during the war; but no adequate protection of American industries in general, can be secured until the Democratic Administration is retired from

power in 1921.

Mr. Lloyd George told his Parliamentary audience that "the old system had been so successful that, before the war, we exported manufactures to the value of £9 per head of our population, while Germany exported only £5 10s per per head, France £4 4s and the United States £2 IOS. If these figures prove anything for the British Premier they also show that the protectionist