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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
COWPQVA. ALASKA. Tl'KSPAV. APRIL M. 1916.
. HOW TIMES WERE IMPROVED.
Having indorsed Woodrow Wilson, as a matter ol course, ,
the Democratic state committee of New .Jersey took occasion
to do some other indorsing. Kegaiding the Fnderwood Free
Trade Tariff law the Jersey Bourbons said that it “has sub
stantially contributed toward the promotion ot vastly improved
times which are observable on every hand. .Inst in what way
the Free Trade Tariff lias contributed toward this improved
condition of things the committee did not say. I*or an answer
to tlu»1 question we must depend upon inference.
In t,lil' ten months of the Fnderwood tariff. beginning.Oc
tober d, and ending with July el. I!M4. times were des
perately bad in this country. Industrial paralysis had set in;
some Bullions of workmen had lost their jobs; mercantile houses
were/idling at a rate never before known; one-third of the rail
road mileage had gone into the bands ol receivers and more
than 2,000,000,000 of their securities wen* unproductive and
unmarketable.
At the end of that ten months came the European war.
Competitive imports, which had increased enormously through
the breach in the protective wall made by a Freed Trade Tariff,
began to dwindle; exports of war supplies quickly assunn 4
•immense proportions.
The war brought hotter times to this country. It was posi
tively the only thing that did bring better times. But for that
' war, at 1be rate that all business was being hurt by a Find
Trade Tariff, .it staggers the imagination to think what lIk*
country’s industrial, economic and financial condition would
have been by this time.
So il must follow tb t if, according t<> tin* Jersey commit
tcc of Free Traders, the Free I rado Tnritt did “substantial!)
coMribute toward the promotion of vastly improved times,
linn that contribution was an indirect one. The war improxed
Kn times. Then did the I ndci wood Free ’t rade Tariff can •
tlie war.' In no other possible wav did or could that tariff
ini novo tin* times. That must be it. The Fnderwood tariff
brought the European war, and in that way brought bettor .
times. There is no other way of reconciling the Jersey Hour
bon belief with the facts in the case.
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1 JtiJCi WAi riiAOIi Uft
Congress recently went hell bent for the president, and
there will be no warnings given to reckless Yankees who yearn
for the thrills of travel on belligerent merchantmen. England
has won a considerable victory in this episode, as it seems to be
a fact that her attempt to establish new rules of sea warfare is,
at least indirectly, upheld by the vote of Congress. The way
is cleared for the president to handle the submarine matter with
Germany as be pleases, anti .just how that was, is, or shall be,
this troubled realm frankly is confoundedly confused.
Even the perspicacious Viscount Bryce, who knows Ameri
can diplomacy as well as lie knows his own English brand, and
who has admired our admirable parts in many flattering para
graphs, comments sarcastically on what he considers an ob
fuscation in the White House and state department.
Every good American wants the long-drawn negotiations
willi Germany concluded, with Germany spanked1 for her mis
demeanors; no good American wants this country tied up in an ■
alliance with Britain, nor involved in any new-fangled sea
rules that may operate against ourselves in the very next
whirl of the wheel. But the way by which we shall be con
veyed into tin* cradle of certain peace is indicated by no sign
posts which the layman can read.
Let us have trust in the Lord and keep our powder dry.
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LO! THE POOR NEWSPAPERS.
The new York Sun tells of the enormous increase in cost of
the materials and articles needed in the production of a news
paper. All these have advanced in price, all the way from 25
pei- cent to 5,000 per cent, since the European war began. Of
course, the publishers are groaning over this. The one cent
papers are hardest hit. They are receiving for their product
less than the cost of the* materials list'd. They are reaping the
fruits of a free trade tariff, which has discouraged' and dimin- '
ished the domestic production of every one of the things that ■
they ipse and made this country more dependent than before
upon supplies from abroad. Protection always increases home
production; free trade always cuts down home production.
One would think that every newspaper owner ought to be a
protectionist.
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THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE.
We fail to appreciate the Free Trade argument now being
advanced to show that breadstuff's have been benefited there
by. All that lias occurred—and that is attributable only to
the war—has berm to protect the American wage earner and the
American producer from foreign competition, and thus create
a foreign market without interference w ith the market at home.
And that’s exactly what protection lias always accomplished,
but it has done it without home and heart breaking bloodshed.
That’s the difference. (
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