The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-24
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| Free sugar would mean the closing
OF every beet sugar factory in
this country, within a year, for the
surplus sugars of Russia would be
dumped into this market with that
special end in view. With our beet
sugar factories closed we should be
at the mercy of the great sugar refin.
ing companies of the Atlantic coast
and of the European combination
known as the Brussels convention
The consumer would gain nothing and
vast and profitable industry, which
Is capable if let alone of supplying
all the sugar needed by the American
people, would be wiped from the face
of the earth. The Democrats of the
senate proposed to cut the present
duty in half leaving a mere revenue
duty on sugar This would wipe out
the beet sugar quite as effectively as
free trade and would be just as dis
astrous in its results. We know ex.
actly, therefore, what the Democrats
mean to do with the sugar duties and
if the people of Ohio think it is de.
sirable to eXtingush the beet sugar
industry they will vote, directly or
Indirectly, for Democratic members of
the house and for Democratic pres.
ident. If they do not think it desir.
able to extinguish the industry,
there is but one way of saving it, and
that is to keep the Republican party
in power.
We'd Butcher the FIocks.
The wool schedule was presented
by the Democrats in a revised form.
Undoubtedly reductions can be made
in that schedule which were not made
in the tariff revision of 1909 1t is
equally undoubted as was shown by
the bill supported by the Republicans
of the senate, that a law can be
passed which will reduce the duties
and yet preserve the industry both to
the manufacturer and the wool grow
er, the existence of each of which is
essential to the other. But the Dem
ocrat1c house presented that schedule |
in form which would put an end to |
the Woolen manufactures of the |
United States and without manufac
lures the American sheep-raiser
whose product was also slaughtered
in the same way, would have no Gus
toner and would be obliged to turn
his sheep into mutton. If YOU desire
to strike down the sheep and wooler !
industries of the United States, give
the Democrats full power and you
VIII have it done; if you do not. the /
only way to preserve them is to siect
Republican congress and a Repub.
can president.
An Unreasonable Inquiry.
The iron industries are the great
EST manufacturing industries in Ohio,
IND the Democrats proposed a new
metal schedule which must be very
interesting to those industries. That
unlike the woolen schedule,
lad been very heavily reduced in the
evision of 1909. There was no pos
lble excuse for making fresh at
ack upon it. Nevertheless, the Dem
'crats of the house went to work
md cut the rates down in all direc-
ions. Their reductions were made in
perfectly helter-skelter way, without
ny system or any conference, with
ut any plan that anybody could dis
over. For example, they selected
go on the free list machine tools,
most elaborate form of manufac-
lre, in which this state is greatly in
crested. Why machine tools were
lcked out any more than any o.her
rotected article of manufacture no
ne can tell. l never heard any rea-
On given for it, but it was done.