Evening journal., 1916-01-27
NEED OF PROTECTION ADMITTED.


N r. THOMAS II. NORTON Of the Bureau Of Foreign
~ and Domestic Commerce, says in the New York An
nalist for January 81
"In a less uncomfortable way we nave
brusquely been forced to recognize the unwisdom tho
folly of shipping amounts of the crude materials
Of our forests mines and three thousand miles
across the ocean, and then buying them back IN
manufactured form, at a greatly enhanced price.
This forced recognition be of very recent date
in far il may have affected the minds OF reo
trade Democrats. That school OF economic thought
which so long advocated the sale of our crude ma
terals to European manufacturers to be made up and
returned to the American market under low duty rates.
counted a large number OF adherens up to about
year ago Did they desert their philosophy when sec
retary Redfed and other tariff wreckers became
panic-strcken at they had wrought and the
prospect of a deluge OF European and Oriental goods
which would overwhelm this country following -the
war? With their heads they had butted the protec-
tive wall into scrap-heap wave OF imports sursea
in extinguishing the fires Of our domestic furnaces
The war came and higher barrier than ever pro
lection contemplated vouchsafed the American
manufacturer and farmer for brief space ana
spotted prosperity in But though the war acts as
temporary barrier TO keep out European goods so
also is IL a dam behind which huge stores OF manu-
features are accumulating. ready 10 burst upon the
worlds richest market when peace Is declared ana
should be borne in mind that the dam is on the for
opn side while the Republican protective policy is on
! our side OF the oceans.
While IL is doubtless true that sell abroad more
crude materials for use in manufacture under low
duty tariff than under protective policy Is equally
true that the benefits derived by producers OF raw ma
eras are less under trade than under projections
Protection affects every industrial fiber Of this country
| benefcially All share i'm the prosperity which 1t Gre
ates During the fiscal year 1913, under Repuplcan
tariff we exported crude materials to the value OF
s7s2OOO 900 During 1914, nine months under the DEM
ocratc tariff, they amounted to S79SOOOOOO. rms IN
crease which would have been used at home in pros
nerous times was due to the fact that low duty
tariT facilitated the capture OF market by our
foreign rivals extended their activities and created a
larger demand for raw materials. which they mica IN
mart from our supply The foreigner paid Teish OH
Them made them up with pauper-paid labor ana the
price of the manufactures importers in this country
included these two items plus profit The importers
added their profits and the return freight and they en-
tered our market in competition with goods maue "
America The competition closed our mills but the
consumers reaped no benefit for the cost OF living wen
mn instead of down as the Democrats promised
The war has temporarily curtaied certain imports
from Germany our greatest rival, almost wholly from
England in lesser degree. From the Orient they have
increased Our manufacturers have taken up the pro
duction OF certain articles for which, due to oreisl
combinations we entirely dependent on Europea
r countries DR. Norton concludes: American capita
S and enterprise and skill and ingenuity are plucku
taking great changes. They are confidently hopn
that the nations lawgiyers will promptly grant thei
statutory protection against the danger Of unresrcte
unfair competition on the part Of the foreign rival
ic when international exchanges again become norma
e Il is the only danger they fear"
I'd The rock of their salvation must be the Republics
rs marty and its policy of protection and not the Dem
at cratic party which has done so much to demoIaHi
IN domestic industries.