The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-11-26

Casino, Broadway, Now York, Even
ing of Nov. 10, 1915. Preparing tor
Peace-"When the War Ends, What
Them"
New York, November 18th, Special
Hon. William s. Bennett, the Repub-
lican candidate elected recently to Con.
gress by a majority of 700 in a district
that formerly gave the Democratic can.
didate a majority of 5000 in straight
out anti. Wilson and anti-Administra'
fight. tonight sounded a campaign slo.
gan which he believes will overwhelm.
ingly elect d Republican president to
succeed the present Democratic Admin
istration.
This slogan relates to the policy oil
tariff protection to save the United
States from being made the dumping
ground of European manufacturers
after the present war is over. Mr..
Bennett pointed to:the efficiency of Eu'
ropean military organization, and warn.
ed his hearers that once that efficiency
is director toward manufacturing arti-
cles to compete in our markets. 1t would
not be possible to keep open our factor
les with the wage":.difference that now
exists. He called attention to the fact
that a commission from France has
just arrived in New York to purchase
from the United States machinery cost
ing nearly two hundred million dollars.
This machinery will be of the most
modern type, and used as soon as the
war Is over to manufacture goods in
competition with our home manufac-
turers.
Mr.. Bennett referred to. the wonderful
ability shown by some of the countries
now at war to supply their own needs
under the most difficult circumstances
and said that just as soon as the war
ends the same ingenuity will be directed
toward supplying the needs Of consum-
ers in the United States.
Democratic orators used to tell us
that a Democratic tariff would not ~
turb business; but it did," said h
Bennett. THE war, regrettable as it is,
was the salvation of American indus.
try. Even with imports greatly inn
peded by the war, our manufacturing
industries were 80 seriously interfered
with in this city last winter that 400,-
600 people were out of work. The
election was in part protest against
unemployment.
But it will be said that conditions
are improving. Of course, the war is
a pro tempore. protective tariff of a
makeshift kind, and in addition we
have this new trade in munitions of
war. Whatever may be our opinion of
its ethics We cannot deny that it is
bringing money into this country. But
when the war ceases and we lose in.
stantly both our substitute for an ade.
quate tariff and our munitions trade,
what them
Nor is this all. The manufacturing
enterprises of Europe generally have
not been destroyed. They have been
curtailed, suspended, changed and
largely brought under governmental
control, which will mean such regula
tion that foreign markets can be in.
vsded successfully. Ten million men
will leave the trenches when this war
closes. Will they be turned loose to
be slowly absorbed without plan or
provisions into Industry BY no means
No government would dare try such an
experiment.
ION the contrary, each government
will, in the beginning at least, assign
these soldier. workers to industrial
tasks. Wages? These men are sol.
diers! The governments control the
industries. Until industries are re.
established the men and their families
will continue to be supported as they
are now being supported. We shall
face, therefore, not the product of
European cheap labor, but the product
of soldier labor, and our country. un.
scathed by war, is the market to which
their goods must come. Against the
wholesale dumping on our market of
this food of the most cheaply produced
foreign goods ever made, we must have
protection or the employees of our own
competing factories will walk the
streets
Il am for preparedness, but even
more than preparedness for war, we
need preparedness for peace. That pre-
paredness we can attain only through
a protective tariff and, scientifically,
only through a tariff commission.
propose, at once, to advocate both.