The Hartford republican., 1914-12-18

week III bUINtIp'
/ would lie; them look at the Unit
ed States from the scene of war.
would give them a look at real trou-
Die. would let them see trains,
ron at a time, five minutes apart,
packed with the MANNED and the
dying.
! would let them hear, from frag-
mentary Survivors the Incredible
story of battlenelds $50 miles wide.
and armies that are greater than the
entire population of Texas.
would let them see graves 100
yards long and full, and Belgium,
the country that was nothing now
but 1900 square miles of wreck
age.
Then. when they began to under
stand. to some extent. the magni-
tude and awfulness of this war, |
would say 10 them:
Now go back and appreciate the
United States. Realize your oppor-
tunities. Don't start digging trench
es when nobody is firing at you.
Don't fall down when you have not
been hit. Don't be blind to the
most glorious chance you have ever
had in your life.
go back and advertise. Get ready
for the most tremendous business
boom that any nation ever had.
Build your factories, bigger. Train
more statesmen. Borrow money. Go
ahead, and thank God that you are
alive and that your family is alive,
and that you re living in a land that
is at peace. at time when nearly
the whole world is at war"
The above article, written by Her
bert N. Carson in the Associated Ad-
vertising, was taken by this paper
from the editorial page of the Louis
vile Evening Post, an ardent sup
porter of the present administration
and it's policies. 1t is the most crush
ing criticism of the free trade tariff
law under which we are living. or
existing. which has yet been printed.
What is the matter with the United
Sates?" why are the American fac
tories not running night and day?"
Go ask the owners of the fac
tories why they are not running
night and day. or even by day, and
they will tell you they are not run
ming because under the present tar
iff law they cannot run when the
war is over. AS yet no one will in
sure them how long it will last In
fact they had ceased to run months
before the war began. They dare
not go ahead building bigger fac
tories" and borrowing more mon
ey" in order to produce goods
which, made with our high priced
la Dor, they cannot compete with
those made by the labor, paid paup-
ers prices. in Europe. When the war
is over those labOrers will be paid
even less than ever, by reason of
enormous taxes levied on capital in
the countries at war.
why have advertisers become
Quitters?" Mr.. Carson should send
these questions to President Wilson
and the Congress. now in session. He
has depicted conditions here which
the President and his friends are
denying exist. Have they not been
holding prosperity" banquets? Sure
ly he unemployed will all find work
after these banquets are over. When
son-in-law McAdoo has taken his pen
in hand and solemnly writ pap"
that good times are here, surely no
man out of a job will dare go back
to the bread line or ask for more
soup. After that letter and the Pres
ident's reply. no advertiser should
be "quitter" and those fifty drum
mers should start right away for Lon
don.
We have thrown awy our home
market TO catch at foreign market
"a delusiOn and a snare. Now, we
have neither. Our factories are eth
er closed or running on hand to
mouth" schedule.
We are all proud that we are at
peace, but we must pay war tax
of 100000. 900, which will, finally,
principally fall on poor people.
We have no battle fields $50
miles long" and no army to speak Of
except the army of unemployed. How
ever, leaving out the dead. wounded
and dying, this country has suffered
almost as much from financial and
business standpoint as any of the
nations at war, from the smashing
of our protective tariff by the Demo-
cratic administration. There are
more men begging bread i'm the Unit
ed States to-day than in Belgium.
If rnnuracc wnuld ranaaI tho I'm