The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-10-31

inc legislation. There is constructive
work in enabling our MERCHANTS to
enter foreign fields equipped with
the same strong weapons carried by
every strong European syndicate.
There is great variety of laws for
internal regulation which must be
passed. There is, most important of
all, the tariff. without immediate
tariff reform the United States will
face industrial disaster. We had
taste in 1914. A liberal taste We
will get the full meal later, as sure
as the Democratic tariff remains in
effect and the war comes to IN end.
Our vast increase in foreign trade
since the war started is due to the
war and nothing else. The Demo-
cratic orators seek to blind the eyes
of the public, but without falsify-
ing their own records they cannot
conceal these facts.
OF the total increase 90 per cent
is munitions.
The remaining 4 per cent is less
than half our increased trade with
territory where single European
nation controlled the market before
the war, and will resume control as
soon as the wars end allows.
These facts are found in the trade
reports compiled by the present adj.
ninistration. Yet this same admin
istration seeks to deny that we owe
prosperity simply and solely to the
war
Can any one pretend that we will
retain the 90 per cent increase when
the war is past?
Can any one believe that Great
Britain, to use single example, will
let us retain theAs9, 100000 increase
in our exports to British India, or
the $10.000,000 increase with Brit
ish Africa. or the 100000, 900 in
crease with British Oceania, or the
S1:3,OOO.O00 increase in our exports
to British North America? This does
| N.~N sehS ihto the VAST
markets of South America and other
non-British territory where Great
Britain will naturally seek to re-es-
tablish itself.
| Great Britain, the great free trade
nation of the world has become pro-
tectionist. Germany has built up its
great industries by protective tariff.
France. Russia and Italy are bound
together by trade treaties and pro-
lection against the enemy countries
and neutral countries, including the
United States. Every one of them
Will emerge from the war with an un-
rrecedented degree of Industrial eff
cheney and with labor above its needs
which means low wages.
Against this competition will the
United States fail to erect stout
tariff wall? Shall we not lose our
foreign trade, in munitions and in
nominations alike, but even allow
foreign made goods, the product of
cheap labor, to pour in on us from
countries which have raised a tar
III wall against our exports?
1t happened in 1914. After the
passage of the Underwood tariff our
exports steadily declined, but our i'm
rorts steadily increased. On both
sides of the ledger the prosperity of
America was being assailed. 1t is
incredible that the banker has for
gotten the threat of panic, that the
merchant has forgotten the scanty
hu! ing. that the laborer has forgot
ten the scarcity of employment.
which afflicted us in that gloomy
year. All classes were hit and hit
hard. The war saved us ten,porar-
lily. Will the nation convalescent igL
more the cause of its malady? VIII
toe nation demand on November
that the tariff meddlers be elected
from Washington?
Charles Evans Hughes as Presi-