Semi-weekly herald., 1914-06-25

taken from the ordinary channels oi
trade. This has brought depression
and financial ruin to every business
and to every section OF the country
This $5,o00,000 in wages daily taker
from the WORKING people of this ma
ton means that the wofkmen of this
country are spending S5,000,000 less
each day for bread and clothes anc
the other necessaries Of life than they
did year ago.
There are 100000 idle men in New
York; 100000 idle men in Chicago
10000 idle men in Pittsburg; 25,-
900 idle men in San Francisco. We
are facing the awful problem of un-
employed everywhere. There are more
idle men in this nation today than
ever before.
Every day that the Democratic par
ty has been in power we have bought
more from the foreigner and sold him
less.
Every day we have lost in our for
eign trade more than half million
dollars. Every day the nation has
gone in debt half million dollars.
Every day the number of unemployed
has increased. Every day mills and
factories have closed Every day
since this Democratic administration
went into power more than 10000
men have been forced into idleness.
Every day the wage earners of this
nation are losing more than $5,000,-
900.
Every day that Woodrow Wilson
has been in the White House the bust.
ness of this nation has decreased
more than twenty million dollars.
This is the price of Democracy. This
Us the price that the people pay to
have the affairs of this nation con-
troiled by academic doctors and eff
cheney experts, by gowned theorists
and scholarly dreamers, by pedantic
pundits and Chautauqua performers,
by learned alIusionists and grape.
juice statesmen.
But we are told that all this is
merely psychological. The president
has assured the country that what il
needs is more legislation. He has as
sured the country that there is moth
ing wrong with Democratic admin
istration, or with Democratic laws.
The only difficulty is that the busi-
ness men of the nation are too stupid
to appreciate the blessings that have
been bestowed upon them. The only
remedy proposed is to give them
more of what they have already re-
ceived. The president has served no.
ticc on the country that congress is
to be kept in session all summer to
enact further legislation that will
practically destroy what little bust.
ness is left.
1t may be psychological, but it Is
a truth that no candid man can deny
that every day that congress stays
IN session that business grows Mss
The greatest blessing that this con.
sress could possibly bestow upon the
iountry would be to adjourn ant
iever meet again. There is this sigh
consolation, however, that while con,
sress is in session destroying the
business of the country they are alst
destroying what remains of the nov
iiscredited Democratic party. The
business men of the nation have ap.
pealed IN vain to the president I,
stop further legislation, but his repi,
has been that they simply imagin,
that they are being injured.
Under the Underwood tariff Law
that brought to use the benign bless.
.ngs Of the "new freedom" we are te
90 forth and capture the markets o.
The world. We have had our wits
5harpened by competition with tn,
rest of mankind It would appear I,
De the part of wisdom to stop ano
zee how the Democratic tariff Law
has worked.
In my own state the new Demo.
cratic tariff law Immediately close,
more than go per cent of our shingls
mills, threw 5000 men out Of EN-.
ployment, and these mills are closeo
today. II Immediately opened tn,
mills Of British Columbia that for
months had been closed, and they
have been running ever since and 9E
per cent Of their output is sold In
the United States. The price Of shin.
giles has not been reduced TO the con.
sumer. We now pay the same pric,
for foreign shingles that we paid fol
those produced in this country.
More than s2,000,000 in wages Is
now being taken from the American
workman in this country and giver
20 the Chinaman, the Japanese ant
he Hindu in British Columbia.
During the first six months Of the
present Democratic tariff law 49,.
100000 pounds of tin plate valued al