Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-08-15
Tavenner's Democratic
Congressional Gossip

| Congressional OOSSlp
| The Courier will publish prac-
! tically every day letter from
| Hon. Clyde III. Tavenner, demo-
cratic member Of congress from
| the fourteenth Illinois district,
| giving democratic view of the
| happenings of the present ses-
| sion of congress.
Washington, August IA new era
for the United States, almost a new
destiny. seems to be the certain result
of the European war. Unless some
! thing now unforeseen halts the struggle
! 1t is bound to continue to the bitter
| end. There is no promise that the con-
| f1ict will be short one. On the one
| side is Germany and on the other Eng
land. and neither nation will accept
! defeat until impoverished of men and
! money. It would not surprise military
men of Washington If the struggle
We're to continue for years.
A war to the death means the death
of millions of the subjects Of the great
European powers. The effect upon the
United States would be most profound.
The very economic texture of our ma
ton would be changed. From nation
which Is an exporter of raw materials
we would suddenly become the great
; supplier of finished manufactured pro-
ducts. And this spells prosperity
for the United States and a period Of
swift development the like of which
the great American captains of indus
| try of the past decade have never
! dreamed.
With singly bound industrial Unit
ed States is likely to cross period Of
development that might otherwise
have taken half century. Old polit-
ical questions and issues, such as the
| tariff and trusts, will vanish from
sight, as though wiped from slate
with wet sponge. If the signs do not
fail the issues of the next presidential
campaign will be questions raised by
the new industrial expansion-prob-
lens of employment and conditions of
labor, the housing of workers, the food
supply of the nation, the adjustment
of the rapidly rising cost Of living with
the rising scales Of wages. Methods
, of raising governmental revenues will
probably also become political issues,
since the day of the import tariff as a
revenue producer is probably at an
end.
The future as 1t appears to the econ
omists in Washington can as yet be
only roughly sketched. The next sue
ceeding years will produce the details.
II wise craftsmanship were ever need
, ed in Washington it will be In these
! next few years, and the country be-
! lieves that in Woodrow Wilson the ma
ton has a leader who can be safely
followed in the critical period in which
(, the nation Is Selling the destiny that
seems to be held out to her.
! A few of the elements which will
/ bring about an economic revolution
may be mentioned. European agrlcul-
| ture will be Frustrated. Nations
which have been food exporters will
suddenly find themselves unable to
produce their own food supplies. The
! Belgians have been supplying Europe
with dairy products. Belgium is being
devastated by the war. Russian wheat
fields will not be planted. Similar con-
! ditions will obtain in the rural districts
of nearly every European nation and
the result will be to place pull upon
| American farm products for exporta:
/ ton that will send the American cost
! of living skyWard.
European manufacture will be para.
lyzed for many years. Instead of be-
i ing the great exporting nation Ger.
many will find herself consumer OF
foreign manufactured products. Her
world markets will leave her and she
herself will become field for exploit.
I, tation by the American foreign trader
The same thing will be true, but In less
degree, Of England and the other man
ufacturing nations Of Europe.
h The South American trade alone is
worth two billion dollars year to any
country which can capture It. Germany
has held most of this trade, and she
must give it up In addition there is
the trade in the Orient. The indications
are that the United States and Japan
are destined to divide most of this
foreign trade.
There is another vital factor to be
! considered European immigration tc
: the United States can be expected tc
virtually cease. This will restrict the
American labor market, and result ir
tremendously increased wages in. this
: country. One problem for the natior
:. will be to check the movement from
the farms to the factories. Each VII
be bidding against the other for la
borers, but in case Of great move
ment away from the farms this natior
t is likely to suffer for food.
: These are some of the vast conse
quences of the European war forseer
for the United States by economists
, The next few years are likely to be thu
most vital ones in the history Of tn
republic.
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