American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-04-27

VIII Oe NJ ledSt TWO COUNTS one
for incompetence In the manage
ment of internal and Industrial
affairs and one for a weak and
v%acillating foreign policy. The
history of events of the last three
years will furnish the evidence.
ut will show that the Democratic
party, always the enemy of the avow-
ed policy of our party-protection to
American i~ndustry-lost no time in
passing a new tariff bill, framed in
exact accordance with its own sweet
will. That means that the law now
on the books is a revenue measure,
pure and simple, which takes no no.
tice Of the protective features We
have hitherto enjoyed under Repub-
lican rule.
1T assumes that no tax on imports
is justifable except that collected for
the purpose of paying a part of our
governmental expenses. 1t was franz
ed by men who seemed to be angered
by the fact that under Republican
rule not only business but the whole
country was prospecting.
"As was we'll said at the New York
convention: There was a nervous
dread lest somebody should make
money
Then Business Slowed Down.
How these theories slowed down
the business of the entire country,
well nigh to the point of suspension,
is now common history. How great
concerns whose conduct required them
to make large purchases. years in ad-
vance were compelled to wait to see
what was going to happen, we all
well know. How business men became
timid; how initiative in capital was
killed; how enterprise halted and how
trade in general has %languished al
most to the degree of suspension is
now an old story.
But for the happening of a great
Of all this would be plain and indis-
putable. Then the clear story of the
failure of the present tariff law could
be read by anybody who chose to
do so.
War Business Humming.
while automobile concerns are
working overtime because of orders
from abroad; while our common in
dustrial factories are humming in the
attempt to fill their orders for NUM-
tons; while our locomotive shops and
our steel mills are filling the largest
orders in their history for materials
to supply the waste in Europe; while
there is immense activity in certain
lines of business and the consequent
employment of labor at good prices;
while certain exports have increased
with astonishing rapidity and money
has flowed in in unheard of q%uanti-
ties-we shall take. non of these
things into consideration in the ex-
animation of our industrial affairs un-
der the operation of the Underwood
tariff law.
Great activity and unusual profits
in some lines of trades will not be cre-
dited to the fairness and wisdom Of
the Democratic tariff act, because ex-
traordinary conditions and not the act
itself were responsible for them. Our
charge that the Democratic party has
again shown it's ignorance of Anleri-
can business needs or has again shown
its stupid hostility to American bust
ness needs, is proved by the fact that,
except for a temporary wartime pros
Ierity In a few instances, there is.
and for three years has been, a depres-
sing influence OF the rest of the bust
hess of lie country that will no he
shaken eff.
same Old story.
as there any doubt OF this? Do
not We read almost daily IN the news
papers The hopeful reports that busi-
ness prospects are improving" An
haven't we been reading that same
sort of stuff ever since the Wilson Id-
M. istration began? And in spite OF
all this cheering news, have we seen
any considerable and permanent inn
pro renCnt? If Uncle Sans industrial
family ic enjoying such good health,
why do the Democratic press doctors
so persisteptly that It is go
ing to feel so much better in the near
%luturec
Take away from US this minute
our war Orde's. and W. q IN all this
broad land will there be found a sin
gle great enterprise making money
out of pure industrial conditions
Where will hero be found a single
instance of the new investment OF
capital? From whence will ONE the
orders that will keep our mills and
our men busy?
Huge Deficit Piled Up.
How well sa isfied ne presideni
has beer with this theory can be
judged by his subsequent conduc'
nor alton IN pnu4hg ri onaratiou M