News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-10-25
.EUROPE'S WARPROVES
PROTECTION IS RIGHT
EIihu Root Shows That the Re-
publican Party's Cardinal
Principle Has Won the
Only Decisive Battle
of the Contest.
WE PROSPER BECAUSE THE
HOME MARKET IS OUR OWN

When Feace Comes and Foreign Com
nercial Considerations Look Hun
serve What Happens to Us If Pro
vision Is Not Made Against Oisaste
by a Tariff Quite Different From thu
Underwood Folly.
There is one particular subject witt
which the United States must dea
In order to meet the revusion in pro
duction and trade which will accom-
pany the close of the great war. That
| is the Tariff. think there is very
general agreement upon that. When
the demand for supplies to the armies
in the field has ended great numbers
of men will return to productive EN-.
| ployment in Europe and great mum.
bers of operatives will be thrown out
Of employment here and will have to
find other work. Europe will have
little money and be heavily in debt.
She will be under strong compulsion
to pay her debts by making and sell
ing goods. She will be on a basis of
strict economy and high organization
and she can make and sell cheaply.
The United States will have an abun-
dance of money and vast purchasing
power. Our market has always been
attractive to European producers. 1t
will be far more attractive after the
war 1t is highly probable that even
England will resort to a protective
tariff, so that our production will meet
protective barriers in all foreign mar
kets. What are we going to do then?
We must do something. We must pro-
tect ourselves or we shall become the
dumping ground of the world and our
workmen will beg in the streets.
Even the Democrats have seen that
something must be done. for they have
provided tariff board to ascertain and
report the true facts to which a tariff
law is to be applied. In Mr.. Taft's Ad-
ministration the Republicans provided
for tariff board to report to the Pres
ident and 1t was appointed and doing
excellent work. When the Democratic
House elected in 1910 came in they
starved 1t out Of existence by refusing
appropriations. In the last session of
the 61st Congress the Republicans pass
ed through both Houses a new bill for
tariff board to report to Congress.
There were some slight differences Of
detail in the two Houses, which were
agreed upon in conference, but the
Democrats filibustered against the final
conference report and so killed the bill
So the tariff board was dead-slain by
the Democratic party. 1t has now been
resurrected by that party because they
see that something must be done about
the tariff when the war closes. Now,
we can all understand that if the coun-
try wants a tariff for revenue only they
may put the making of it in the hands
of the Democratic party. But, can any
sane man contemplate that party max
ing a protective tariff? In the first
place they can't do it honestly. They
don't believe in It. They were born and
bred in a different faith. They have
been crying so long that protection is
an abuse of power and an abomination
that they can't reconcile themselves to
a protective tariff, and they regard the
Underwood tariff as a model. That is
what we are to have If the Democrats
90 back-the Underwood tariff still.
with perhaps here and there a slight
modification regarding dye stuffs and
some other articles which can be
shown to gentlemen from Missouri and |
elsewhere. Well, If there ever was a |
'lumsy. i'll conceived. misfit law. IT is |
he tariff which bears Mr.. Underwood's |
lame. We had already discovered |
what its effect was when the war in
Europe began.
Many mills and factories were closed
'r running but a part of the time. |
treat numbers of laborers were thrown
'ut of employment, and the market for
American products was still further
educed by the destruction of their
purchasing power. Enterprise halted,
discouraged and apprebensive of the
uture. New enterprises were no long
r attempted. Old plants we're no long,
r enlarged. The Underwood tariff
ad already failed when the war In
Europe began. That war furnished
nd continues to furnish to American
reduction the most absolute protec-
lon because it has to so great a de-
rec stopped production in Europe. So
ing as the war lasts our producers
ave practically no competition in our
ONE market. for Europe does not
lake the goods to sell here. At the
lme time. while the war lasts our
roducers have an enormous market
! Europe for the things that Europe
mt produce in sufficient quantities
hen the war is over that condition
Ill cease. and we shall deserve what
lppens to Us If we do not provide
yainst that time by q tariff quite diff
rent from the Underwood tariff and
ade by men who do not consider a
diff for revenue only an article of
ligious faith-From the Speech of
Thu Root Delivered at Carnegie Hail.