The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-28
ALL IN ONE MONTH
Figures That viii Keep Republic.
ans Guessing.
They Would Not Dare Return to the
Old Tariff Schedules, Even II
They Were Returned to
Power.

according to our disp~assionate Re
publican friends. who desire nothing
~ the progress Of the true, the beau
uful and the good. the Underwood
tarin was IN process of wrecking the
country when the obliging war came
Along and stopped up the breach In
the tariff barricade." Now It ia no
use for US Democrats to dodge; facts
are facts. We might as we'll face
tnem. Here goes to gaze on the I'm.
derwood tariff at its worst.
In May. 1914, our importations were
$S4.0oo.00o greater than they had been
under the Payne-Aldrich tariff in the
corresponding month of the year be-
lore. This was the greatest excess of
the period before the war. Let US
analyze it a little.
OF the $4,000 900 excess $14, O00, 900
Is accounted for by increased impor.
tations of food. In 1913 this country
was visited by general drought and
the crops of the four principal grains
fell short of the 1912 yield by a full
billion bushels. Result: a greatly
shortened food supply and heavy i'm
portations In the spring of 1914. Here
are some Of the items of increase:
Food animals, $685.. 900; fresh meats
and dairy products. $1,000. 900; corn.
$SO9. 600. Several millions Of this de-
crease was in commodities which had
been taken of the dutiable list by the
Underwood tariff and made free.
We respectfully ask our Republican
friends whether. II they had the pow
er, they, would restore the tariff on
these things, SO that the food supply
OF the nation should be scarcer and
higher in time of drought and shortage
at home?
or the s34,00 900 increase more
than $11 .000, 900 was in the four items
OF coffee. hides, manufactured rubber
and raw silk. The amounts were:
Coffee, $2,429. 900; hides. s4,145, 900;
manufactured rubber, Sites, 600;
raw silk, $2,745, 900. All Jour of these
commodities were free under both tar
ifs-the Payne-Aldrich and the Under
wood. The change of tariff had no
more to do with this increase than
the aurora borealis had.
More than $4,000, 900 of the increase
in this awful month was in the impor
tation Of crude materials for manu-
featuring. OF these. raw cotton-free
under both tariffs-increased nearly
81. 900. 900. and raw wool-made free
by the Underwood tariff-$6,7 89. 900
The tariff had. therefore. nothing to dc
with the first increase. AS for the
wool, the greatest wool-producine
grow about 10000, 900 pounds a veal
there. These blighting wool importa
lions were in May. In November the,
had 4 little election out in Montana
They elected two Democratic con
gressmen-there are only two con
g%ressional districts-by pluralities o
about 10000 each Eel their Republi
can opponents, and over Republican,
and Progressives both of about 400
each; and they sent a legislature Il
Helena Democratic on joint ballot b,
eight members. And before we leav.
this painful subject We should like t
inquire what use American WOO
manufacturers could have had for a.
that raw wool in view of the fact
which every Republican knows-tha
the wooden business had been para
lyzed by Democratic onslaughts O
schedule X in the tariff law whic
went into effect in October of the yea
before?
We ask the Republicans whethe
they would change the tariff on woo
II they could? If so. why?
Manufactures ready for consumptio
Increased in this month $6,517,O0
How large a percentage of this ii
crease was in goods free under bot
tariffs we do not know; but increase
in the two somewhat dissimilar item
of fertilizers and works of art amour
to nearly a million dollars, and bot
were on the free list under both ia
ifs. Before any charge can be brougl
against the Underwood tariff on a
count of this increase it is necessal
to show that 1T took place in the ca'
of tens affected by tariff reductie
and that industrial depression fl
lowed at home in consequence.
Republican denunciation of the U
derwood law is shallow. ignorant al
fnsincere.-St. Louis Republic.