Evening journal., 1915-05-28
TOURISTS AND TARIFF.

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IA cratic leaders to base their policies upon funda-
mental principles is found in the columns of the OREGON
journal, the leading Democratic paper OF the Pacific
Northwest which comments upon the fact that the
gates of Europe against American tourists
and that S2s6,0OOOOO will be saved to this country
thereby"
The journal says that: "Insead Of being taken out
of America and spent Europe this money is being
spent this in the United States which means that
the sum is doubled in its effects at home DO you real
ize 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 reparer and do you real
ze what 1t means indirectly to every resident of
American
And yet the Journal and its Democratic co-aborers
cannot that exactly the principle is involved
in the question of protective tariff In January 1913
the United States sent abroad something like a million
and half dollars for broadstuns That was under a
Republican protective tariff In January. 1914. under
Democratic tariff, the United States abroad more
than five million dollars similar commodities That
was an increase OF three millions and half for a single
month line of commodities
Every school boy realize what the changed
status means directly to every producer of bread
stuhs, to every manufacturer who is selling goods to
the producer of breadstus to every hardware man. to
every cothier to every umberman to tie butcher the
baker. and candestick maker
In January, 1913, under Republican tariff the
United States sent abroad nearly million and a half
/ dollars for manufactures OF wool; but in January
1914, under Democratic tariff we sent abroad more
than four millions and half. Increase of three mill
lion dollars this commodity for one month in
the year.
This a direct loss to The men who work in or
| operate the wooen mills of the United States Those
, men are buyers of American products patrons of
American aundries and barber shops buyers of Amer
lean newspapers, consumers OF American food en-
| n1o orN
blacks. Their buying power reduced S3OcOOO0 in
one month.
Let US look at the totals for January in the two
years. During that in 1913 the United states
sent abroad for 36 specified imported products more
than S2700O00O; while for tho similar month in 1914.
there sent aroad OOO or an increase of S6
100000 for the one MONTH
Commenting upon the S2S6 600 900 formerly spent in
Europe by tourists and retained in the United
States the Democratic Journal says:
at does not take much of Imagination to grasl
the meaning of the enormous thus to be spent
in far country but among the people of the United
States 1t takes exaggeraton of the facts to picture
the prosperity that it spells for thousands
But those words apply to money spent for com
modites Just strongly to money spent by pleasure
seekers Money spent in America for American pro
ducts gives profitable and useful employment to mil
lions of industrious. thrifty, patriotic citizens 9TH
, is doubled in its effect at home"
No stronger argument need be made in behalf of
protective policy for the United States than
the language of the Democratic periodical which grow
eloquent the expenditure OF tourists money
America, instead of in Europe If those who have bee
accustomed TO vote the Democratic ticket thus inyn
Americans to spend their money for the employment
foreign labor and foreign capital abroad would fa
enough to acknowledge the application of the sam
principle to the purchase of commodities that apple
IT 20 expenditures for travel there would never again
Is the remotest possibility Of the election OF a Democrat
v President and Democratic Congress-