Evening journal., 1913-04-26
SATURDAY. APR. 20. 1918.
uNDERWoOD TARIFF AND HARD TIMES.

UNDERWOOD TARIFF AND HARD TINES.
THE thoughtful citizen who solcitous for the
prosperity and welfare OF the United States and
It's people finds in the apparent determination Of
Democratic Congress to put through the Underwood
Tariff bill only one great grain of comfort That is
that when the Democracy by its free trade policy
the nations prosperity it also will destroy
all homes OF continued Democratic domination of our
national affairs
One of the most prominent Democrats in the United
States has said that the present House bill passes
Congress with the duties at or near those
tanned therein the Democratic party VIII be out Of
power again for twenty Unquestion-
ably he is right party which pursues deliberately
that will destroy industries and the earning
power OF and who engaged in indus
trial pursuits commits in the eye of the people an
unforgivabe onense
In view of the foregoing an advocate of the Under
wood Tarn bill might suggest that IL those who arc
opposed to it roaly believe that it's enactment into
law will result in the retirement Of the Democratic
party for twenty years they would be serving their
political ends by coyerty encouraging It to COM
NIT such objectionable Of legislative folly True;
but how would they be serving the ends of the mill
lions Of American and who would be
subjected to the disastrous operations of Under
wood tariff for years longer before they pos
slbly could have opportunity to repair the great
wrong inflicted upon them aftermath Of the cleo
ton last November?
III IS OF inc time intervening between the enactment
OF the Underwood tariff law and its repeal that tho
thoughtful and patriotic citizen now is thinking
He knows that President Wilson has been elected
for four years; that most Of the Democratic sena-
tors have been elected for six and that all the
Democratic Representatives have been elected for two
years
He realizes that II the tarn policy Of the Wilson adj
minstration he put into effect industrial and agri-
cultural depression will be sure to follow and that the
people will be compelled to submit to untold suffer-
ing and loss before they VIII have opportunity to
elect President and new Senators and Repre-
sentatives TO undo the work done by the Wilson ad
ministration. That is the real trouble.
The harm Will result not from the action OF the
Democracy in discredlting itself but from the fact
that although discredited the people cannot get rid
It until and four years hence Long before that
time elapses the damage will have been done.
trial establishments which now hum with energy and
life and which pay out millions of dollors in wages
for materials viii have suffered irroparable injury.
Many American homes in which peace. plenty. happi-
ness and contentment obtain will feel the pinch
OF hard times because Of the impairment or destruc-
ton of the earning power of the through
the operations OF a Democratic tariff law.
Nor need Delawareans solace themselves that they
will not be touched by the blight legislation
Many Of them remember clearly the local suffering
that followed the Democratic tarn tnkerng in the
days Of President Cleveland. We doubt that they
would to experience a return OF those days Of
business, industrial and agricultural depression. But
those days will return Il this wilson Underwood tariff
programme be put through and prophet OF disaster
IS needed to foretel st.
The signs already ere clearly apparent in many
sections Of the cordtry and they will multiply quickly
when finally II is realized that the Democratic tariff
scheme really is to be put into effect
AS said before II the only effect OF such tarn
action would be to put the people in frame Of mind
TO re1fe the Democracy for at least twenty years.
w9nfd be well for the friends of protection and pros
zkrity to encourage she Wilson administration to put
&the Underwood bill through Unfortunately, however
the next election is almost two years of and the in
terest OF the people in the intervening time demands
that vehement protest be made