Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-04

However, the outbreak OF the European war cut off
the mportations from the countries the Allan
tic Soon after the beginning of the the factories
OF this country began TO manufacture munitions of
and all kinds of supplies be used BY the armies
of the bellgerent nations As a result have had
prosperity in those sections of the country which are
engaged in this manufacture. But what will be the
aftermath? The mills and factories of England have
not been destroyed They will be ready TO
operations the moment peace is declared. Germany
has not been invaded Her factories. too are intact
When peace shall be proclaimed her soldiers will return
to the arts of peace The factories OF England and
Germany will be running again, full blast. Both
tries will be in need of ready money 10 replenish their
empty treasures and again the products of their mills
their factories. and their workshops will be dumped
the American market under the low tariff duties of the
Underwood law.
Tho lessons of the past should not be lost upon our
citizens It is TO be hoped that realizing the dangers
that confront American industries they will elect TO
the Senate and to the House enough Members pledged
to the enactment protective tariff the pas
sage of such law If they will but take page from
their own history the history of the first half OF the
nineteenth century they will elect Presidents the
Republican candidate who is pledged to the enactment
of protective tariff
Why even Great Britain beginning to seek remedial
legislation to prevent the dumping of the goods OF other
nations into her ports at the close of the present
She has always been considered freetrade country
Her business men are among the shrewdest traders m
the world. On July l3, 1915. subcommittee of the
advisory committee of the board OF trade CONNER
cial intelligence with respect for securing
the position after the of certain branches OF British
industry" appointed. This subcommittee investi-
gated the conditions that will probably arise after the
facture, the printing trades including color printing,
the stationery trade the jewellers and silversmiths'
trade cutlery, fancy leather goods glassware, table
glass. laboratory ware, and glass bottles, china and
earthcnware electrical apparatus brush and so FORTH
trade, and hardware. t-t,
Among the remedies suggested and recommended in
the report is that of tariff protection. The report
made the nth day of January l9l6. II states:,
We are bound TO say that far our particular
inquiry has gone, though amount of weight has
been attached to the various proposals put forward
they were all regarded as OF secondary i'm
portancc in comparison with question, and that
is the possibility otherwise Of tariff protection after
the cessation of the Practically all of the repre-
sentative firms and associations consulted by asked
for a measure of protection.
II that represents the attitude of the British
facturers how much more important is IL that laws
be enacted for the protection of American industries
With high scale of wages, better working con-
ditions how much greater is need for protection
Let prepare country against the certain flood
Of manufactured goods from Europe that is bound TO
come under the existing Underwood tariff law Let us
be deaf 10 the voice of the past protective at
framed by a Republican Congress pledged to the prn-
dples Of protection and signed by Republican Presi
dent will alone avert financial catastrophe when this
cruel Europeon war is