Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-20

DEMOCRATIC TARIFF
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nation are too stupid to appreciate the
blessings that have been bestowed up
on them. The only remedy proposed
Is to give them mor of what they have
already received. The president has
served notice on the country that con
gress is to be kept in session all sum.
mer to enact further legislation that
will practically destroy what little
business Is left.
1t may be psychological, but it Is q
truth that no candid man can deny
that every day that congress stays in
session that business grows less. The
business men of the nation have ap-
pealed in vain to the president to stop
further legislation, but his reply has
been that they simply imagine that
they are being injured.
Capturing the Markets Of the World.
Under the Underwood tariff law that
brought to use the benign blessings of
the new freedom" we are to go forth
and capture the markets of the world.
We have had our wits sharpened by
competition with the rest of mankind.
1t would appear to be the part Of wis
dom to stop and see how the democrat
ic tariff law has worked.
In my own state the new democratic
tariff law Immediately closed more
than sixty per cent Of our single mills,
threw 5000 men out of employment.
and these mills are closed today. II
Immediately opened the mills OF Brit
ish Columbia that for months had been
closed, and they have been running
ever since and ninety-five per cent of
their output is sold in the United
States. The price of shingles has not
been reduced to the consumer. We now
pay the same price for foreign shingles
that we paid for those produced in this
country.
More than 50, 900. 900 in wages is now
being taken from the American work
nan in this country and given to
British Columbia.
During the first six months Of the
present democratic tariff law 33.000,-
900 pounds of tin plate valued at ST.
334.0 900 was imported into this country,
ten times as much as was brought into
this country during the last six months
Of the republican tariff law.
This nation during the six months
under a democratic tariff used less tin
plate than 1t had during the last six
months under a republican tariff. This
means one million dollars in work and
wages taken from the men who work
in industries Of this country and given
to foreign countries.
Thousands Of tons of foreign steel
manufactured by foreign cheap labor Is
going into San Francisco and Seattle.
Thousands of tons of pig iron is con
ing into these ports from China pro
duced by labor paid from six cents to
eight cents per day. Il
Thousands of tons of cotton ties are
going into the ports of Galvc.ton, New
/, Orleans, Savannah to be used by the
southern cotton planter.
During the last month of the repub'
lican tariff law the Pittsburgh Steel
CO., that manufactures cotton ties,
paid to its workmen s194,OO0 every two
' eks. Now 1t pays to these work.
men $4,000 every two weeks. The
rest of this payroll, $180,000 every two
weeks has been taken from them and
given to the foreigner. More than
three thousand men that worked for
this company are out Of employment
wondering how they are going to earn
their daily bread.
Only a few days ago, the National
Tube Co., Of McKeesport, Pa, closed
throwing out of employment $500 men,
Their work and their wages have been
taken from them and given to the for.
| eigner.
During the first three months of 1914
under a democratic tariff law our sale
of cotton goods to the foreigner de
creased 81, 200, 900. Our purchases dur
ing the anne period increased $2,100,
900 or a balance in favor of the for
eigner of $4,000, 900.
During the first three months OF
1914, our imports Of WOODEN and worst.
ed goods were $7,664,370 under a demo
cratic law. During the first three
months of 1913 they were $2,254, 01C
under a republican tariff, or a balance
Of $5,41O, $50 in favor of the foreigner
in three months.
In three months after the Under
wood law went up the statute books
Bradford, the great wooden and wors
ted center of England, increased Its
sale of these goods to the United
States $50 per cent.
Comparing this year with last year
during the month of March the amount
we sold abroad at the port Of New
York alone decreased $%11,000,000.
During the month of April at the
same port 1t decreased $12,000,000, OF
a loss in our foreign markets Of 1913,
00O, 600 in two months at this M port
Imports increased for the same two
months in the port of New York alone
over $4,000, 900. In other words, dur
Ing March and April Of this year under
this democratic tariff law that was tc
give us the markets of the world the
balance in favor of the foreigner at the
port Of New York alone was nearly
$50, O00, 900, or to put it in another way
under the democratic tariff law now
upon the statute books we are losing
our foreign markets at the rate o,
$276, 10000 0 per year through this one
port. Our tremendous loss Of trade II
shown more strikingly still when 20,
remember that our imports of mater
ial used in manufacturing has decreas
ed in the first six months under thu
Underwood law more than $4,000, 00o
Each month since the figures show
still greater loss of foreign trade.
During April, 1914, the last month
for which figures are available, al
compared with April, 1913, we Dough