The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-12-23
WATCH THE TRADE BAROMETER
(Sullivan (Ind.) Union.)

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tariff law cost this country five bill
lion dollars. REIMBURSEMENT has be-
gun under the new Democratic law,
and now, fellow citizen, watch the
barometer.
Leetonia Steel company has filed a
petition in bankruptcy.
Western Bar Iron association has
cut the price of pulling from 81 to
$6.4O.
The United States Steel Corporation
has cut its production to so per cent
of what it has been for years.
The Globe Wooden company, of
Utica, N. Y, has announced that it
will close its works indefinitely.
All American tailors handling high
grade cloths imported from Europe
have been notified that prices will be
a shilling a yard higher than present
prices after December /.
Thirty American mills which manu-
featured shingles have closed down.
German cutlery has been coming in
to the United States since the new
tariff law in large shipments, not at
a reduced price, however, but displac
ing cutlery of our W manufacture
which must eventually interfere with
the man who makes cutlery here.
A mating manufacturer from jap
an is here to establish warehouses for
the distribution of mating to the
American trade. He says: "The
American tariff is a Godsend to jap
am
The city of Lubec, Me-, has been
wiped off the map as to its sardines.
The longshoremen there will have to
go to Canada to get sardines canned.
There are now well-night 100000
men out of employment in Indiana
alone.
Bank exchanges have decreased
22h per cent; railroad earnings have
fallen off as much; commercial fail
ures are increasing at a rapid rate;
exports of merchandise have decreas-
ed 26A per cent; United States bond
values have gone down the scale 3.9l
per cent.
California, with its Hiram Johnson
output, is wondering if it hasn't slip
ped a cog In the free trade on fruits
which has been handed them. They
are wondering if they have not been
handed a large-sized lemon by
somebody. They have also been yell
ing their heads off out there against
the yellow peril" The Chinese
and japanese are now locating Iii
Mexico to raise fruits and make wines
to sell to the Californians and their
customers and take their trade. The
Chinese and the Jap will be safe from
California Legislatures down in Mex
co, and what do they are to live in
California if they can send from
Mexico their products upon an equali-
ty with the Californian The dear
people will buy their products right
in the precincts of San Francisco and
union will not reach the Chinese fruit
producer, for he will sell his crates to
the American middleman who will
pcddle them out for him.
The American people have decided
ly to buy where they can buy cheap
est, and the American working man
will find competition from every land
under the sun. The working man will
not need to bother his brain over inn
migration and to keep out the pauper
labor of other lands. There will now
be more work for pauper labor in
their own countries. Their employers
will give them work all the time now,
for the labor of their hands will be
sold to America; and the working
man here will have more time to
stand around with hands in pockets
watching the things made abroad by
'pauper labor sell here to the Gus
toners of his American employer and
to the hindrance of his American EN-
Oh, il is coming gentlemen Not