The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-25
PREPARING FOR PEACE
WHEN THE WAR ENDS,
WHAT THEM"
Remarks of Hon. William $. Bennett at
a Ratification Meeting. at London
Casino, Broadway, N. u, Evening
Of November Is, 1915.

: tasin0, BrOadway, n. L., ENenir
e Of November Is, 1915.
n New York, Nov. ls-Hon. Villa
a s. Bennet, the Republican candida
S elected recently to Congress by a mi
t Jority of 200 in district that formel
ly gave the Democratic candidate
e majority Of 5000 in straight-ot
, anti Wilson and anti-Administratio
) fight, tonight sounded campaig
, slogan which he believes will over
5 overwhelmingly elect Republica
President to succeed the present Dem
/ ocratic Administration.
i This slogan relates to the policy o
, tariff protection to save the Unite
States from being made the dumpin,
ground Of European manufacturer
after the present war is over. Mr.
Bennett pointed to the efficiency o
European military organization, an,
warned his hearers that once tha
efficiency is directed toward manufac
turing articles to compete in our mar
kets, it would not be possible TO keeT
open our factories with the wage diff.
ference that now exists. He called at
tention to the fact that a commission
from France has just arrived in New
York to purchase from the United
States machinery costing nearly two
hundred million dollars. This machin-
cry will be of the most modern type,
and used as soon as the war is over
to manufacture goods in competition
with our home manufactures.
Mr.. Bennett referred tothe wonder
full ability shown by some of the coun-
tries now at war to supply their own
needs under the most difficult circum-
stances and said that just as soon as
the war ends the same ingenuity will
be directed toward supplying the
needs of consumers in the United
States.
Democratic orators used to tell US
that Democratic tariff would not dis
turb business; but it did," said Mr..
Bennett. "The war, regrettable as it
is, was the salvation of American in
dustry. Even with imports greatly
impeded by the war, our manufactur-
ing industries were so seriously inter-
fcrcd with in this city last winter that
100000 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 q
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 then?
"Nor is this all The manufacturing
of Europe generally have
not been destroyed. They have been
suspended, changed and
largely brought under governmental
control, which will mean such regula-
tion that foreign markets can be in
vaded 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
,ry such an experiment.
"On the contrary, each government
will, in the beginning at least, assign
hese soldier workmen TO industrial
asks. Wages? These men are sol
liers! The governments control the
Industries. Until industries are re-
established the men and their families
viii continue to be supported as they
re now being supported. We shall
ace, therefore, not the product of
European cheap labor, but the prod ;
ct of soldier labor, and our country, (
by war, is the market to '
,hich their goods must come. Against
he wholesale dumping on our mar |
ct of this flood of the most cheaply- {
reduced foreign goods ever made, we }
lust have protection or the employees t
{ our own competing factories will \
ak the streets. 8
81 am for preparedness, but even II
Iore than preparedness for war, we t
eed preparedness for peace. That
we can attain only s.
trough protective tariff and, scien- Il
fcally, only through tariff com u
ission. ! propose, at once, TO advo- a
tie both" NJ