The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-12-10
FOR PROTECTION
LESSON OF ELECTION
IDLE MEN AND SMOKED rso
cHlMNEYs RESULT OF THE
DEMOCRATIC TARIFF.
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There is no lesson taught by tbo
election of Tuesday that shines clear
er than the one which tells that the
great asset Of the republican party !.
its devotion to protective tariff
There were various causes that con.
tributed to the splendid result, and
special issues that appealed to differ.
ent communities. But above and be-
You'd all others was the tariff. This
was the key that did most toward nm.
locking the door to success.
1t was in the manufacturing cen.
ters, in the home Of the factory and
the workshop, that there showed tha
greatest republican gains. In all of
the country the greatest change from
the result Of 1912 was the one in this
state This was natural for Pennsyl-
vania is the state most interested and
concerned in a tariff law that equal
ICES wages and industrial conditions
here and abroad. She has the most
at stake when the theorist and the
zealot tinker and tamper with law
that gives needed protection to Amer
iran Industry
Tariff in New England.
II was the tariff that caused the up.
rising in New England In that Sec
ton the complexion Of the whole pol
itical map was changed in a day.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
and Connecticut rose in revolt against
a law designed to transfer manufact-
ure from the United States to foreign
lands. New Jersey added her firm
and practical protest to the tariff
measure that the democratic admins
tration put upon the statute book.
Ohio redeemed herself politically,
largely because she is a manufacturing
state and could not sanction the blow
that has been given to her industries
West of the Mississippi, where the
factory gives way to the farm, the re-
publican wave that swept over the
country was neither so wide nor so
deep as it was in the east. This was
because the full effect of the new tar
if law has not yet reached the farm
land. Blessed by a wonderful har-
vest, and with prices maintained at
high level by the European war and
the new demand for American food
stuffs, the farmer has still to realize
the full extent to which the tariff bar
rlers have been removed from his pro-
ducts. Because of that condition his
desire for the prompt punishment of
the party that framed the law was
not so keen as that of the manufact-
urer of the cas- For that reason the
republican gains were not so great in
that territory,
Free Trade in Industrial Centers.
In the manufacturing communities
however, the tariff law had proven it.
self. Neither employer nor employe
had any illusion as to the effect that
It had upon industry. 1t had already
resulted in halfpay envelopes and
smokeless chimneys and cobwcbbed
looms, There was nothing academic
about its ability to iniure Industry
There had been a real test The man
ufacturing world had been the first to
laarn the inevitable lessen that a low
tariff teaches, and 1t voted according
ly.
Not even the distraction of great
world war prevented the industrial
communities from realizing the con-
ditions that had been brought about
by the Wilson Underwood law. They
took advantage of the first opportun-
ity to register their emphatic disap-
prevail. They evidently appreciated
the fact that the only reason why
there is activity today where before
there was depression is that there is
tariff protection caused by the Euro
pean war. This conflict has temper
arily suspended the reduction in tar
iff rates made by the new law. Pro-
tective tariff conditions have been re-
stored automatically by the inabI''y
Of the great manufacturing countries
Of Europe to send their products INTO
he United States.
The republican party has been con-
slant and, consistent in its advocacy
Of protective tariff 1t was because
Of this fact that, the result of TINS
weeks election was so strong in favor
IF republicanism. The tariff is SUN =
the great issue before the American :
people The country believes in
tariff when 1t takes lhe
time to consider the question tuiIy'
And It is never so sure of its be'I''
In protection as when 1t is living uh-
Ter a tariff law of another kind.