The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-09
ADMINISTRATION
HELD RESPONSIBLE

What is the condition Of the coun-
try after eight months of the Demo
cratic tariff bill and the Wilson ad-
ministrationf asks Winfield Jones,
Washington correspondent of the Her
aid Republican.
If activities in the iron and steel
industries or in manufacturing in
dustries in general is a safe gauge the
country is going through q period cf
great depression. In finances, in rail.-
road circles, business is almost at y
standstill. New enterprises are not
encouraged. The banks have plenty
of money, but are not lending it. The
transportation companies are buying
nothing. The investor SHES clear Of
railroad stocks and bonds and turns
to municipal securities. Wherever
there has been in the past the kind Of
financial activity that spells construc-
tion, there is now stagnation, and
pessimism and distrust OF the ability
of the present administration and
congress to better the situation.
The new tariff act Is not old enough
to have made such benefits felt as
might accrue from it if it were to be
beneficial; it is old enough to have
made it's disturbing influence felt.
Answer at tho Polls
Should there be failure of busi-
ness to recover, the continued non-em-
ployment Of the thousands Of work
men now idle will have 1T the poll sthe
effect Of an unanswerablc argument
aginst the fiscal and economic policy
Of the Democratic party.
The issue to be decided at the polls
next November is as clear and dis
tinct as any issue could possibly be.
It can neither be evaded or obscured.
Two political parties, no more, are to
determine the issue: One party
stands between the American pro-
Queer and laborer on the one hand
and their foreign competitors on the
other, and declares that American
markets and labor belong to American
producers and American workmen;
while the other party would remove
all barriers and open American mar
kets and workshops to the products
of labor in foreign lands. There is
no middle ground between the two.
One must take sides either with the
American or the foreigner in the
contest for the possession of American
markets and the control of American
labor.
Tariff duties cannot be laid that
will not do the one thing or the 9TH
er. All duties must necessarily either
retard or facilitate importations.
Which shall it bef Shall the tariff
policy retard importations for the
benefit of home labor, home industry,
home business, home prosperity Or
shall the tariff policy encourage and
increase importations for the profit Of
foreigners and to the detriment Of
the peoples That is the one big issue
to be decided at the polls.
Same as Twenty Years Ago.
Who are benefited by the present
tariff lawf Is real estate worth
moref Is the outlook for the farmers
betterf Are mechanics better en-
ployed9 Are factories busiers Is
business betterf Are wages higherf
IT not, then free trade is now just
what it was twenty years ago under
the Wilson German tarih law. Under
the workings of that law the import
ers prospered, the business Of foreign
manufacturers flourisred and American
money flowed into foreign Golfers in 3
golden stream. The result was ma
tion-wide depression. Men willing to
work could get nothing to do, and
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