Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-14
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gion on to the Atlantic coast.
Some months after the Underwood
bill was passed; after its work of de.
molition began, after adversely began
to take possession of the land every
where, the war in Europe began and
the demand for the munitions of war
was so tremendous that the factories
which Democracy had closed were
opened. Thousands and tens OF thous-
ands Of idle working men who we're
thrown out Of work by the force of
Democratic policies were invited back
in the construction of munitions of
war. After a while Democracy began
to sit up and take notice, and was
proud. When the war ends these
great train loads of munitions will
stop; the ned for them will have end
ed. The great factories of the coun-
! try where millions of the wage earn
ers of America are now engaged in
this business, they will want some
thing else to do. l fear at that point
will come a recurrence of the conflict
between the wage-earners OF America
and the wage-earners OF European
countries. These people over there,
the thirty million now in the trenches
will return to the factory forced to
work at whatever wage they can CON-
mand in order to meet the increased
burden upon their shoulders and pro-
vide for the necessities of life. 1t
Of @S Cu;,
and it will be so now unless human
nature has undergone an entire trans
formation. We can see but at little
way into the future We see far with
the eye Of faith. but in this practical
bread getting world we want to make
sure We do not stumble and fall in
the future. Why! My friends there
are piled up in the great factories of
some of these countries, billions of
dollars worth of products to be let
loose upon America when the oppor-
tunity comes at the end OF the war.
Now ! will tell you what l think is
the part OF wisdom and that is, put
up safe guard around the United
States and if foreign producers want
to get into our markets they must
make deposit as evidence of good
faith at the sumstom houses of the re-
public. This is a practical question.
We cannot postpone its settlement in
definitely; we must make up our
minds in the next four weeks what
we are going to do about it.
Golden Age.
For sixteen years before Mr. vii.
son came into power we were enjoy
ing the golden age of America. Dur
ing these sixteen years they had at
the head of the government presi.
dents who were loyal to the best ira
ditions of the republic. The first one
I never mention his name except with
profound veneration and respect! one
of the wisest statesmen our country
has produced; one of the gentlest fig
ures in the world; a statesman of pro-
found wisdom; patriot OF undoubted
loyalty. William Mckinley, the third
martyr of the republic Policies for
which the Republican party stand
were incarcerated in William McKin-
ley. We enjoyed prosperity through
the four years and few months of
McKinley's administration; through
seven years and some months of the
administration of Theodore Roosevelt
and four years under William Howard
Taft. For nearly sixteen years from
McKinley's Inauguration as president
down to Mr.. Wilson's inauguration as
president we enjoyed prosperity ma
ton wide and ampler in degree than
at any other time in the history of
our republic
Figure It Out. -.
"And then we ask the voters of this
country thoughtfully to figure out
for themselves what will with deadly
certainty recur when the armies now
fighting in the trenches are mustered
into the factories of Europe beside
that new industrial army of women,
children and hitherto unframed work.
ers now in the factories. They will
work under the necessity of exchang.
ing their output for the gold which
has been wasted in this struggle
across the seas.
1--WE are now enjoying a transient
prosperity, based upon the temporary
necessities of war. 1t began with the
war; it will as certainly end with the
war.
THE significant feature of our for.
eign trade is the vast, steady increase
in importations from every quarter,
which the wars end will not end, but
accelerate. We must count not only
upon the released and increased pro-
ductive energies of Europe focused ur.
on this great neutral market, but tn
release of hundreds of millions OF
stored products which will come dOwE
upon our industries in the released
shipping of the world, as the flood
upon Johnstown when the leak in the
dam became torrent.
Cannot Whip Back.
1--WE cannot whip back that tide !,
with phrases we cannot repel it with !
visions; we cannot defeat it with pro-
LESSONS of good intentions. As a prac-
tical people we must meet this practi- |
cal problem in practical way.
'Let us, while we can, prevent ruin,
rather than seek afterward, to repair |
it."
I'VE appeal in this campaign to the
memory of every American wage earn
er. business man and farmer, not as
to the disaster which followed the end. |
ing of European war under the Walk
er tariff, not as to the depression
which came upon American industry |
under the Wilson tariff of twenty