The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-09
Ameriea SIN FOR Americans.

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America stiIi for Americans.
The PhiIadelphia Public Ledger
voices the Sentiments OF an aroused
american public over the free trade
folly now being induiged in, when
il declares that II is announced by
a responsible Phiiadelphian that q
quarter OF all the manufacturing
business of this city has already fall
en- under the blight of a radically
low tariff. unfortunately, this with
ering paralysis appears to have
stricken all parts of the country. In
every direction there are uneasiness
and fear. Upon all sides may be
heard forebod ings of an oncoming
misfortune Securities owned by
millions of investors are falling
steadily and have reached the lowry
estate 41itherto registered only ~
semi-panic years.
with the land from one end to the
other thus annoyed with things that that
are real and harassed by others
which may be on their way, the ma
jority in Congress sees fit to tarn
cold ear to every warning protest.
Manufacturers who seek to
represent their own interests
are branded as paid lobby
lists. Men whose properties are
threatened with grave reverse, If not
by ruin, have the doors of the United
States Senate slammed in their
faces. Those who endeavor to pro-
Itect their own and the welfare OF
Thousands of workmen depending
upon them are treated as interlopers
! and impudent intruders.
1t is high time for some reflection
at Washington. The country is not
yet prepared for hysterical tarin
reduction, although it needs a care.
full and prudent downward revision
under an unbroken Sprotective sye-
TEN, by tearing away in ruthless
fashion the law that helps preserve
to Americans their own incompara-
BILE market.
If manufacturers are not permit
ted to speak in their own behalf,
then who shall represent them. II
the accumulated knowledge in any
business, acquired by business men,
is not any value to legislators in
FRAMING a tariff law, then where IS
! the knowledge that can be of SER
vice? A pound OF hard fact, derived
in years of actual experience, IS
worth a ton of fine-spun theories got
ten from books.
- invest
ed in American industries and mil
lions of persons live by them. VINO
could have q better right to lift a
voice. either for or against q pro-
posed radical change in the tarin
laws, than the men responsible for
such vast enterprises? Where go for
expert knowledge to incorporate In
new law If not to the men whose
very business life depends upon such
knowledge?
To deny any interest, however
small or great. a right to be heard IS
undemocratic and un-American. TO
ride roughshod over the manufactur
ing interests of the country without
giving them even the chance to make
protest is the greatest of plumbers.
American factories rather than
American farms now swell
this nations export figures to
new high records every year.
Not only do exports OF manu-
factnred goods vastly exceed the
shipments of agricultural products
but the growth in the former is
Emuch the faster.
No national folly could be greater
than to do aught that would harm
this steadily increasing trade. No
mistake could be more. disastrous
than to take from Americans what it
thas taken Americans so many years
Ito create. America is still for Amer
leans.