Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-27
SENATOR BoRAH AND HIS CALoMEL

Senator Borah thinks the country needs to prepare
for peace rather than He or thinks ne does
great flood of goods of foreign manufacture pouring into
this country He points out that before the war there
were three million idle in this country most OF Whom
are now at work. and that soon as the war over these
men will again be idle account OF the foreigner send
ing his goods here Of the senator pPeScDeS the
old and only remedy high tariff, which like calome to
the old time country doctor the remedy for every
thing from ingrowing nails to toothache
Everyone knows that whether tax comes in the dis
quse of tariff or in any other shape the Of the
taxed goods ultimately pays it. So the higher the talif
the more costly the goods and the higher the cost OF Nv
ing if foreign goods are bought at all.
report issued but few days ago labor conditions
in the East shows how the tariff DEMENT'S American LABOR
Il asserted that of the Il 900 men employed at the Carne
gle steel works $4,000 foreigners and most OF them
unable to read or write the very poorest and most un-
desirable sort of immigrants These men so the report
states were used to working fourteen to sixteen hours
day for fifty cents, and here they worked elght hours
getting $500, to them fabulous wages.
In Senator Borah's remedy for the working mans
troubles is there any brand Of caonfe that will cut out
this competition Of the pauper labor OF Europe with the
labor of this country?
The only difference between competing with this class
of labor in its native country and here is that with
high tariff the of the products OF foreign labor
performed at home and the same labor in this country is
that in the first the consumer pays the tarl to the
government andn the latter he pays practically the same
tariff to Mr.. Carnegie, or who ever else employs TINS
pauper labor in this country.
Again; but few days ago bevy of bankers came
over from Europe to arrange for billion dollar loan and
did arrange for loan of half that amount They stated
at the time they had plenty of gold and could easily pay
for what they got but this country did not want the gold
1t was surfeted with dose of yellow metal on its
financial stomach 1t frankly stated that owing to-
the war those countries could not pay for products
by shipping their products to us and this loan or credit
was asked to maintain trade balances How then we
to sell our products to the world unless in turn use the
worlds products?
Another point Senator Borah overlooks in pointing
out the three million idle men in this country before the
war; is that there are in warning Europe five million
permanently ideand who will never compete again with
anyone Their labors are There is another five
million sadly handicapped for work of any kind and from
the present outlook when this war is over there will be
from fifteen to twenty million of the strong men, the
flower of Europe no longer able to produce anything
Besides there is wrecked continent to go on the dry
dock for repairs almost equal to the first building of it.
When the war is it will be years before those
unfortunate countries have recovered sufficiently to more
than supply their own wants. Competition from Europe,
such as we have had is in the remote future placed there
by things other than the tariff.