Life — February 9, 1911 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“om, Lizzie! 1 YOU DON'T STOP THAT DREADFUL LANGUAGE ULL NEVER GO OUT WITH YoU AGAIN!" Protection ROTECTION is without honor save in its own country, Almost any old steel magnate reaps his wild oats in Pittsburgh and sows them subsequently in New York, an tell you with nonpareil glibness that a protective tariff is the only genuine Sunon-pure sublimate, provided always that you are talking about the United States. But merely drop an initial hint that you desire his views on protection as to Japan or, for that matter, any other outlying nationality, and he will convince you in an infinitesimal part of a jifly that protection is just about the * worst policy a nation could possibly adopt. And why not? Time was when a pro- tective tariff for Japan could be de- fended on the score of the infantility of her indusirics, but the “infant in- dustry" argument has long since been laid to rest. bright lexicon of the modern mellifluent politician, there is no such word as “infant industry.” But there is danger in the situation, nevertheless, and, to avoid confusion and misunderstanding on the part of the un- sophisticated populace, a law should be passed requiring all those who favor protection to use the English language and all those who oppose it to use the Japanese language while the Esperantists should be forbidden any discussion of it whatsoever. (eLsaiade AL JAW RE GOT IT “T MAVE USED TWELVE BOTTLES OF YOUR * MAGIC WRINKLE ERADICATOR’ AND NOW I WANT MY MONEY BACK. DO 1 GET o” 1?