Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-03
MANAGERS OF REPUBLICAN Ma.
TloNAL CAMPAIGN TO SEND
FEW SPEAKERS TO STATE.
SENDING ITS ORATORS
TO DOUBTFUL STATES
terest Of Voters - Senator Cummins
Goes to Western Coast to Campaign
Until Eection-Bryan's Free Trade
Talk Does Not Set Well.

Special to Times Republican
! Des Moines, Oct. 3-The republican
managers of the national campaign
are taking it for granted evidently that
Iowa is going republican this fab,
| They are not sending out any speakers
| &c Iowa during thes weeks when the
! speaking is good and the voters ripe
| Tor information as 10 national affairs.
The state republican headquarters
| mad no speakers on the national cam
| palgn in sight today when inquiry was
| made as TO who Were 70 speak for
| Hughes here. Ii was said that the ma
| tlonal bureau is sending its men into
! the doubtful states. However a list
may be submitted TO the republican
| leaders here this week TO choose from
| and it is probable some spellbinders
can be picked out.
| In the meantime the democrats are
not letting any political grass grow IN
der their feet. William Jennings Bryan
is drawing big crowds wherever he
goes and he is always recognized as
convincing and effective speaker.
Senator Cummins leaves early next
week for the western coast and he
won't be back until just before cleo
ton, SO the headquarters information
declared yesterday. Kenyon is also
going out west to campaign for the
national ticket. He is to be back in
Iowa the last week in the campaign
however.
1t is evident that Harding would
like 10 have some good national speak
ers here whooping it up for Harding
as we'll as for the national ticket.
Bryan has been speaking for Meredith.
Harding was in Benton county yes
terday and was accompanied by Con-
gresham James ". Good He spoke
last night at Belle Piaine. Today he
IS al the Waterloo dairy show. We'd
nesday ne speaks at Lisbon in the att
ernoon and Marion at night. Thurs
day ne will be IN Adair county. Friday
he will speak at Ottumwa and Satur-
day at Abba and Bloomfield.
6ryan's Free Trade Talk.
In his Iowa speeches William Jen-
nngs BryanS claim that the present
tariff law is the best ever put in OPP
Grafton in this country is not meeting
with approval in many places. 1t is
well known that free trade has been
hurting many of the big industries Of
this country most seriously and If IL
had not been for the war this coun-
trys export would have been COM
paratively small
In spite OF twsntythree months of
war the imports into this country un-
der the Underwood tariff have been
much larger than they were under the
Payne tariff. The last thirty three
months the Payne tariff was in OPP
Grafton the imports into this country
totaled s4,66I ,S17,2S6. The first thirty
three months under the Underwood
tariff. the imports totaled s5,31s2S2,-
073. There has been a loss in revenue
to the government under the Under
wood law Of s23S.354,644 in the thirty
three months of its operation in spite
Of the fact that far more goods have
been brought in than under the Payne
law. In the last thirty-three months
under the Payne law, the customs
duties collected tosaled sS6s,111,O15.
In the first thirty three months under
the Underwood tariff the customs
duties collected amounted 10 s62e,756.-
:31.
Congressman william r. Green, Of
the Ninth Iowa congressional district,
in a speech during the closing days OF
congress declared our proserpity in
exports has come thru the blood and
misery OF our fellow men.
In it there is nothing OF which 10
boast and much 10 regret" ne de-
cIared.
IF anything further is needed to
show that the war was the cause Of an
enormous increase in the demand for
our products 1t can be found by an
examination Of the export OF products
not used in war, which, notwithstand-
ing slight increases 10 some countries.
as a whole were reduced" he pointed
out.
The exports OF agricultural imple-
ments. for example, fell off about one
half IN 1916 as compared with 1914,
for reapers, plows and mowers are i'm
PIGMENTS Of peace alone. Typewrters
are not used in war. altho the present
Administered ton conducts it's conflicts
with them, and their exports fell off.
Sewing machines were only exported
about One-half as much as in normal
times
Exports of stoves, structural iron
and sheet metal were greatly reduced.
The warning nations are digging
trenches instead of building houses
and We exported about 80 per cent less
lumber as compared 10 times before
the war.
In normal times the Underwood
tariff. Ike every other revenue tariff.
increased our imports and lessened our
exports until the balance of trade was
against US. The fact is that but for
war our exports, instead of being so
much greater, would actually have
been less than in times Of peace"
Ditch Calls For $4,000 Contract.