The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-06-03
Washington Letters.

Washington Letters.
WASHINGTON, May 81, 1915. A strik-
ing illustration of the inability of Demo-
cratic leaders 10 base their policies upon
fundamental principles, is found in the
columns of the Oregon Journal, the lead
ing Democratic paper of the Pacific
Northwest, which comments upon the
fact that "the gates of Europe are bar
red against American tourists and 1886,
600, 900 will be saved to this country
thereby"
The Journal says that: Instead of be-
ing taken out of America and spent in
Europe, this money is being spent this
ear in the United States, which means
that the sum is doubled in its effects at
home. Do you realize what the changed
status means directly to every railroad.
every coastwise, lake and steamer line,
every hotel, every summer boarding
house, every garage, every automobile
dealer and repairer, and do you realize
what it means indirectly to every resi-
dent of American
And yet the Journal and its Democrat
ic co-iaborers cannot see that exactly
the same principle is involved in the
question of protective tariff. In jan
uary, 1913, the United States sent abroad
something like a million and half dol
lars for breadstuffs. That was under
Republican protective tariff. In Janu-
airy, 1914, under Democratic tariff, the
United States sent abroad more than
five million dollars for similar commodi-
ties. That was an increase of three mil
lions and half for single month on
one line of commodities.
Every school boy can "realize what
the changed status means directly to
every producer of breadstuffs, to every
manufacturer who IS selling goods to the
producer of breadstuffs, to every hard
ware man, to every clotbier, to every
lumberman, to the butcher, the baker
and candlestick maker.
In January, 1918, under Republican
tariff, the United States sent abroad
nearly a million and half dollars for
manufactures of wool; but in January,
1914, under a Democratic tariff, we sent
abroad more than four millions and
half, an increase of three million dollars
on this one commodity for one month i'll
the year.
This was direct loss to the men who
work in or operate the wooden mills of
the United States. Those men are buy
ers of American products, patrons of
American laundries and barber shops.
buyers of American newspapers, con-
sumers of American food, employers of
American carpenters, cobblers and boot
blacks. Their buying power was re-
duced So, 600, 900 in one month.
Let US look at the totals for January
in the two years. During that month in
1913, the United States sent abroad for
Sc specified imported products, more
than S27, 100000; while for the similar
month in 1914, there was sent abroad
S43, 900, 900, or an increase Of 5000, 900
for the one month.
Commenting upon the s2S6, 900, 900 for
merly spent in Europe by tourists and
now returned in the United States, the
Democratic Journal says:
at does not take much of an magma
ton to grasp the meaning of the enor-
nous sum thus to be spent, not in a far
country, but among the people of the
United States. 1t takes no exaggera-
ton of the facts to picture the prosperity
that it spells for thousands"
But those words apply to money spent
for commodities just as strongly as to
money spent by pleasure seekers. Money
spent in America for American products
gives profitable and useful employment
to millions of Industrious, thrifty, pat
riotic citizens. 1.-The sum is doubled in
its effect at home."
No stronger argument need be made in
behalf of protective policy for the
United States than is found in the lam
guage of the Democratic periodical which
grows so eloquent over the expenditure
of tourists money in America, instead
of in Europe. If those who have been
accustomed to vote the Democratic
ticket, thus inviting Americans to spend
their money for the employment of for
eign labor and foreign capital abroad,
would be fair enough to acknowledge the
application of the same principle to the
purchase of commodities that applies to
expenditures for travel, there would
never again be the remotest possibility
of the election of Democratic Presi-
dent and Democratic Congress.
WASHINGTON, May 81, 1915. Testi-
mony to Republican solidarity continues
to accumulate here as visitors from varl-
GUS sections of the country arrive in
Washington. Arthur B. Jones of South
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