Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-05

in excess of $11.OOO.OOO. and gleeful
conclusions as to the effects of the
tariff law are drawn by high-speed
thinkers from rather meager data.
Looking plainly at the facts, we find
them TO be as follows:
During April the increase of imports
Eich We have seen amounted to about
s27, 900, is found TO be in the fol-
lowing items:
Crude materials for rise in our man
ufactures,- 81. 900 -lea ,-ss.--
Crude foodstuffs. over 100000.
Partly manufactured foodstuffs,
nearly S7,OOO.OOO.
Here Is an aggregate of s25,OOO, 900
out OF a total increase of $27,50O 900,
which is entirely in foods and mater
ials which our manufacturers use. The
balance is made up of an increase in
finished manufactures of S5,OOO,O00 less
a decrease in partly finished manufac-
lures of 81. 900, 900. showing a net in
crease in all imported manufactures Of
100000, or about per cent as com.
pared with the month of April a year
ago.
Turning now to the exports for the
month OF April, in which there is a
decrease of S37.OOO.OOO for that month,
We find SIO,OOO,OOO of it in crude ma
terials for manufactures; s14.OOO,OO0 OF
it in foodstuffs; over s5.OOO.OO0 in part
ly finished manufactures; making a
total of S29, ,OOO, 900. Eight millions out
Of s37. 100000 is in fully finishes manu-
features, this last item showing tn.
smallest ratio of decrease for the
month of any OF the great groups
named. In other words, il is in the
line OF fully finished manufactures
that we have held our proportion OF
business best.
"On the day when this was written
the secretary of labor read in the cab
met in my presence telegram from
the labor authorities of Missouri stat
ing that 10000 men were needed in
that state to help harvest the crops.
Another telegram from the labor COM
missioner of the state of Kansas call
ing for that state for a like purpose
was read. and at the previous session
he had read a dispatch from the labor
OF Oklahoma stating
that 10. 600 men were needed there.
Looks Into Other Conditions
1T is true that psychological depres-
sion is none the less a depression be
cause it is Psychological We may
therefore fairly look into other conf /
-ions 10 see whether the mental state
that exists has a justification in solid |
fact.
IF you and l get away from the |
crowded centers OF our middle and /
eastern states where mental mourning |
exists for conditions that can never re-
urn since the day Of mastery is over !
and commerce must henceforth be a !
/ say, we get away from |
these centers into which the light IS
breaking, but which il has not yet |
fully illuminated. we shall find a diff
ferent atmosphere. From far-of Cal
Ifornia and from Florida; from the
fields of Oklahoma and Kansas. Mis-
,ourf and Nebraska, comes the glad
-ry OF a harvest an but ripe for the
sickle. There was no mourning in the
orange groves OF California when l
saw them in March. and florida utters
10 cry OF distress in sending $4,000
carloads OF her fruit to market.
"It IS a small and pitiful thing that
men should expect TO reap political
profit out OF magnifying evils. How
sver, the too willing how.s OF tl1
lpostles Of evil are so obvious as well
Is so previous as 10 be on the whole
lore humorous than harmful. They
make the tudicious grieve. but they
,ring no anxiety TO the thoughfui."