anaheim-gazette 1916-07-20

The Weekly Gazette. PEARL BUTTONS "MADE IN U. S." The pearl button industry furnishes a typical illustration of the constructive effect of a protective tariff in establishing and maintaining thousands of small enterprises which are essential to a true made in America policy. Twenty-two thousand operatives are directly employed in the manufacture of pearl buttons in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. From the period of the gathered shell to the finished product, 12,000 men and 5,000 women are employed, while 5,000 men work five months in the year digging over 50,000 tons of fresh water shell, a product not having any economic value prior to the establishment of the pearl button industry, but which now sells for $30 per ton. The capital invested in buildings and equipment aggregates $3,-000,000. Prior to 1890 there was no pearl button industry in the United States, because the low rate of duty, which was 25 per cent ad valorem, did not permit us to compete with imported buttons. About that time the Consul General at Vienna reported that the manufacture of pearl buttons would probably never be undertaken in the United States. But William McKinley had different ideas, and his bill placed a specific duty on this product. The industry had its birth from the date of the passage of the McKinley bill. Improved methods and the introduction of machinery gave the industry a solid foundation, and it was getting along swimmingly until President Wilson's well-to-do man. The people had better prepare for the worst. The tax collector soon will be sitting upon every doorstep. Aside from the doubling About that time the Consul General at Vienna reported that the manufacture of pearl buttons would probably never be undertaken in the United States. But William McKinley had different ideas, and his bill placed a specific duty on this product. The industry had its birth from the date of the passage of the McKinley bill. Improved methods and the introduction of machinery gave the industry a solid foundation, and it was getting along swimmingly until President Wilson's band of tariff wreckers cut the import rates to the quick. The democrats did this on the theory that lower duties would increase imports to such a point that far greater revenues would be derived from pearl buttons, utterly oblivious to the effect on the home industry. Let us see how their theory worked out. The Underwood law changed the duties from specific to ad valorem rates which carried a decided reduction. During the fiscal year ended June 30,1913, under republican law, we imported pearl buttons to the value of $91,280, on which revenue was realized in the sum of $70,454, and our mills and laborers were protected from foreign competitors with their pauper-paid labor. Yet the duty was not prohibitive. The Underwood law took effect October 3, 1913, and from that date to the end of the fiscal year 1914, nine months, we imported $170,439 worth of pearl buttons, and but $61,833 of revenue was paid into the treasury on those imports. In nine months, our imports increased 87 per cent over the full fiscal year of 1913, and the revenue fell off nearly $9,000. We have five competitors in this industry: England, Germany, Austria, Italy and Japan. Four of them are actively engaged in the war, while Japan is reaping a harvest of prosperity from the same source as the United States. Nevertheless, the imports of pearl buttons during the fiscal year 1915, a war period, amounted to $212,-369 on which duty was collected in the sum of $91,814—an increase of 133 per cent in our imports, over the 1913 record, but revenues increased only 30 per cent. The rate of wages paid to pearl button operatives in the United States is, for cutters, $15 to $20 per week; in Bohemia, $4.85 to $7; in Austria, $4.87 to $9.74; in England, $6 to $8; while the Japanese receive from $1.50 to $3. Japan is rapidly becoming our most dangerous competitor. There are 60 factories in Ohio alone and probably well-to-do man. The people had better prepare for the worst. The tax collector soon will be sitting upon every doorstep. Aside from the doubling of the income tax there are to be taxes on inheritances, munitions, increased taxes on beer and whiskey and a levy on the attendance at moving pictures and other forms of entertainment. The republicans will show the voters that these heavy taxes could be avoided by a tariff that would give protection to American industries and wages, increasing prosperity and at the same time relieving the people of excessive taxation. The manufacturers brought to pay low wages would have to bear the bulk of the burden of supporting the United States government if they try to undersell the American market, which is based upon a high wage scale. THE ORIGIN OF GRINGO Interest in Mexican affairs has revived the ancient discussion as to the origin of the term Gringo, applied by Mexicans to Americans. The word is said to appear in old Spanish dictionaries, meaning gibberish. To the Spanish it is doubtless an onomatope, just as our word grunt is, which appears with slight modifications in Spanish and Latin. The most popular theory is that the term was first applied to American soldiers, who, during the Mexican war, sang a marching song, beginning, "Green grow the rushes, O." Another version made it hawthorn leaves. The Mexicans, according to this theory, dubbed the invaders Gringos, in imitation of the opening words of the song. There is really nothing in this theory inconsistent with the conscious use of the Spanish word. It is not beyond the capacity of Mexicans to perpetrate so natural a pun. The nickname Dago, which is now so offensive to Italians, was first given the Spanish by Englishmen because Diego, or James, was so common a name among them, San Diego being their patron saint. It was subsequently extended to the Portuguese and to the Italians. The Greeks called all foreigners harbarians, which really dollar-incurred by se figures which can be appreciated. The short-lived wild cat ing rigs at w any productive ventures may ductive territory of increase in gines, one can supply of gas the future. Many people economies, due accounts are goose eggs. We not deposit so Anaheim Na small account. IN A H Going over to the convenent President W that he was These words where Mr. Wthe Lusitania he was “too p arrested the—and some o as to laugh al In truth, th mood is amu and weary d felt no belling phrases of th which he recei der during th of his pugnac honor, the dl power of th at stake he g sentiment. Bu ferent. Until has had no f tunes. He h ha t be to be the ben position and t retain his tinued dissent publicismism. such hopes ha cannot against House through adversaries. This has a dent’s fighting not be developed national inte sum of $91,814—an increase of 133 per cent in our imports, over the 1913 record, but revenues increased only 30 per cent. The rate of wages paid to pearl button operatives in the United States is, for cutters, $15 to $20 per week; in Bohemia, $4.85 to $7; in Austria, $4.87 to $9.74; in England, $6 to $8; while the Japanese receive from $1.50 to $3. Japan is rapidly becoming our most dangerous competitor. There are 60 factories in Osaka alone, and probably over 100 in the Empire. Their material comes from India and the South Sea Islands. Every time a member of the Pearl Button Workers union buttons his shirt it should remind him that a democratic administration stands for destruction of the industry on which he depends for a living, while the republican party stands for protection of that industry. That union made a plea to the democrats not to reduce the duties, which plea was disregarded. PLENTY OF ISSUES The issues in the campaign by no means will be confined to Americanism and preparedness. They will be the leading issues, but there will be a strong undercurrent of opposition to the present high taxes imposed by the democratic administration. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania says that about 13,000 new offices have been created by the present administration, with an enormous increase of government expenditures. He points out that the appropriations of the present democratic congress will amount to $1,-500,000,000. This is the largest sum appropriated by any congress in a time of peace. According to the Pennsylvania Senator, who is a member of the finance committee of the senate, the government soon will be taking one-quarter of the income of every nothing in this theory inconsistent with the conscious use of the Spanish word. It is not beyond the capacity of Mexicans to perpetrate so natural a pun. The nickname Dago, which is now so offensive to Italians, was first given the Spanish by Englishmen because Diego, or James, was so common a name among them, San Diego being their patron saint. It was subsequently extended to the Portuguese and to the Italians. The Greeks called all foreigners barbarians, which really meant babblers. It is a natural human weakness to be somewhat contemptuous of persons speaking an unknown tongue. One objection to the song theory, however, is the fact that the term Gringo is not confined to Mexico, nor is it applied exclusively to Americans. It is used in all Spanish-American countries as a nickname for Englishmen as well as Americans. An English traveler in Chile many years ago commented on it, in a letter written home. It should be possible to find the term in literature antedating the Mexican war. This would largely discredit the song story, although, as we have pointed out, it is possible that the Mexicans playfully associated the Spanish word for gibberish with the opening words of the popular American song. Believers in the song theory should be able to find its full text somewhere and demonstrate the probability that it was sung by the American soldiers. WATCH—WAIT—WOBBLE—WITH-DRAW The most complete, comprehensive definition of the Wilson policy toward Mexico may be summarized in four words—watch, wait, wobble, withdraw. We have watched, interminably we have waited, until all respect for American authority below the Rio Grande is gone. We are wobbling, have been ever since Mexico became ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916 an issue, until we have become the laughing stock of the world. And we are withdrawing, Pershing's base is now within a hundred instead of two hundred miles of the border. PERSONAL TAX INCREASE A gain of over $2000 is shown by Assessor James Sleeper's returns in the personal tax collected during the past year of the previous year, and a gain of $103,229.13 is shown over the year before Mr. Sleeper took the office. The personal tax in 1915 was $115,980.61, while in 1910 it was $12,-761.49. These figures show that the personal tax collected in the county now is almost ten times greater than it was in 1910. The tax took a big jump the first year of Mr. Sleeper's term in office and it has been on the increase ever since. THE OIL INDUSTRY California oil producers, where not tied up by long time contracts, are getting better returns for their productions. Consumption far exceeds production and accumulated stocks above ground are diminishing. When it is considered that, compared with coal, every barrel of fuel oil ever used in California was intrinsically worth one dollar, the frightful loss that has been incurred by sales of crude at the low figures which have prevailed for years can be appreciated. The shortage in crude has stimulated wild cattling in drilling. In driving through the country one sees drilling rigs at work miles removed from any productive fields. These new ventures may uncover additional productive territory. At the present rate of increase in gasoline propelled en- Lieut. Bryan, U.S.N. stated before the Am. 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ZEROLENE the Standard Oil for Motor Cars Seal Beach is moving to have the lid raised to allow the cafes there to remain open until 2 a.m. to cater to trade from Los Angeles which seeks reported lately that cafe charges for food and liquids are of the boom-time order, and one fellow was almost stricken dumb when a waiter handed him his check after a short stay in ZEROLENE the Standard Oil for Motor Cars Seal Beach is moving to have the lid raised to allow the cafes there to remain open until 2 a.m. to cater to trade from Los Angeles which seeks the night life. Several persons have reported lately that cafe charges for food and liquids are of the boom-time order, and one fellow was almost stricken dumb when a waiter handed him his check after a short stay in the cafe. He says, never again. Many people practice numerous economies, but somehow their bank accounts are a sorry succession of goose eggs. Why economize if you do not deposit something in a bank? 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He has deemed himself again to be the beneficiary of a divided opposition and he has felt that he was to retain his office by reason of continued dissension in the ranks of republicanism. He now knows that all such hopes have vanished and that he cannot again walk into the White House through the split ranks of his adversaries. This has aroused all of the president's fighting qualities. What could not be developed by the imperilling of national interests has readily been A PLEASANT SURPRISE awaits the woman who tries our cleaning and dyeing for the first time. From fancy slippers on up to feathers on her hat, everything she wears, we clean them perfectly or dye them any new shade or color. Make every part of her costume harmonize. Change unfashionable colors into the very latest popular ones. Orange County Dry & Steam Cleaning Works THE Peerless Saloon JOHN CASSOU. Prop. Fine Wines and Liquors ANAHEIM BEER ON DRAUGHT C. & D. 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