The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-29

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iuss his influence TO have the Under
wood tariff Law repealed. has sent
ssecond communication to the pres
dent.
This letter recalls that the frst on.
went at time when Pennsyiyanf;
was In the midst Of q bitter roEtica
Campaign. For that reason the Man
sufacturers' association fears that th'
.presfdent may have regarded Il az
political document The election be
ling over and 10 campaign imminent
inany Of the rrophesies Of disaster
contained in the first letter, II is de
cleared, having come true and none o.
THE administration promises OF
speedy rsadiustment OF the new tar
liz condition. having materfaiized, tbs
/ president is asked 20 consider the mat
ter again. simply as a business propo
sstion.
Following is the letter:
l"Honorabie Woodrow Wilson,
president Of United States,
Washington. D. c.
Dear Sir: Under date Of July IL,
1874, the Manufacturers association
| OF Montgomery county, Norristown,
Pennsylvania, through its president
and secretary, addressed to you let
ter setting forth the existing business
conditions Of those manufacturers
and other industries which make up
the Manufacturers association Oh
MONTGOMERY county. Pennsylvania,
and appealed TO you as the leader OF
the political party in power to giFe
that relief which alone would save the
business OF the country from dis
Iaster.
Your secretary courteousiy &C
iknowledged receipt Of this letter, but
the only means we have o, knowing
that II came before you il through a
notice which appeared in the pubic
uresg at that time attHbuting TO you
a statement that 1t was your beiisi
that the letter addressed to you did
not set forth the real conditions OF the
industries OF the Schuylkfll valley
You were further reported to have
stated that tn every direction unmis-
:akeable evidence OF better and even
prosperous times were at hand. III
you believed this to be 50 then, OF
course. the relief for which we pray
ed was already fn sight and no at
..entiou 70 car appeal was necessary.
I'VE now address 10 you this sec
ond letter 1or the one specific purpose
OF informing yo-s that the good times
so happily predicted At Washington
have not arrived. On the contrary.
the forecasts made to ron IN cur first
letter have naterializsd 10 the extent
of being an unusual public calamity.
We are aware that the language OF
this letter is strong and direct. For
this we have no apology. We mean
that fl shall be SO. Situations IKE
the one before us demand heroic
treatment and heroic treatment can
not be applied through the weakness
O. circumlocution. We say to you
again. that we write you in this way
because the tariff law Of the demo
cratic party now In power mas
brought this country face to face with
buginess calamity.
we are not without the facts to
urove what we cay. Here Is one fact
We take IT from Philadelphia news
paper OF December u:
From the pulpits OF every church
In philadelphia will go forth the ap-
peal of the poor TO the rich, the call
of humanity to humanity. Thousands
OF men In this city cannot obtain en-
ployrnent. Their wives sit hopeless
,ly In cold, dismal little rooms and
their children face starvation"
Here IL another fact. We take Il
from another Newspaper OF the same
date:
THE virtually unanimous passage
by councils philadelphia Of the blu
appropriating $4,000 for the relief
of the city's unemployed will meet
with hearty approval OF the general
tpubIic. Extraordinary conditions call
for extraordinary relief. and 1t has
been very thoroughly demonstrated
that the crescent need for home re.
lief is extraordinary great, too great
iZations TO handle effectively. The
city'g action must be understood az
supplementing and not replacing priv
ate charitable endeavor.'
should It still be said that the
facts submitted above prove only thai
the depression lies in the Schnylkil
valley and that we present an isolat
ed and local circumstance, we las
down an our answer this fact: The
National Association OF Wool Manu-
facturers, Boston, Massachusetts, has
issued table showing that IN tina
great industry, on December !, 1914
more than one-third Of all this YES
machinery was idle; and that tabi'
shows that the depression Is create
now than It was September /, last
land that table shows that the depres
sion in that industry was greater OF
September ] than II was June i. last
That table shows that this depres