The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

b"i IIutdIlJ appedIlnB 10 western
voters and his presence on the plat.
form in Nebraska Kansas, Iowa,
South Dakota and other western
states cannot but have strengthen
ing effect on the Republican hold on
those states.
Face Actual Ruin.
Many American industries face
actual ruin IL the close of the Euro
pean war finds them In the naked
and unprepared condition forced up
on them by the Underwood tariff" he
says "fhe tariff Is really the great
issue OF this campaign. We should
not forget the conditions which were
forced upon American workingncn
both Of the farming and the factory
classes, by the nine months or the
Underwood tariif law before our i'm
mense war orders came to help US
out of a terrible hole which yawned
right IN front Of us. / tell you the
more the people come to understand
the real peril of the Underwood tariff
law TO our American industries and
To the welfare of our American
workinGmcn the more they are in
ciined TO rcpudiatc this Democratic
measure.
But the voters this year are de-
handing facts. not gcneralities. /
said some of our industries will face
rum when the war is over unless they
have protection. And when an in
dustry fails. those employed in that
industry are out of work. racy can
not pay for goods produced by others
ana 80 in endless chain Of non-pro-
duCers. non-pGyers is started. i short
time ago ] spoke in North Carolina
where there are 500 cotton mills
within 200 miles of Charlotte. RE-
liabie reports from an but two of
these mills indicate they will have to
close after the war unless the I'm
der"ood tarlff law Is repealed. Why?
Listen. Within the last year the
JIupers, the big automatic loom con
cern. sent fun train load Of auto
matte looms to Japan to equip cotton
mills in that country. In Japan iha
men work for twenty-one cents nor
DAY the women for sixteen cents and
the children for eight cents. These
American looms viii turn out lust as
much cotton goods for these Jana
nese as they will for Americans.
These goods win be sent TO what
should be American markets and If
there is no tariff protection for Amer
lcan mills, these mills must either
cut wages to the level of the jam
hese, or close up shop entirely. In
olher words they must close, because
cutting wages to japanese Levels or 10
foreign standards of wages is I'M
lhinkable. uncomfortable, impossible.
mat is only one instance.
Another Instance.
Here is another instance. In Chi
cago. recently. | visited wholesale
where | was shown q
room tillcd with American china
ware made in Japan The models
were American. the decorations were
American and you could not tell then |
from American made goods. They
will be sold as American. Bear in |
mind that n piece of Chinaware II
only a penny's worth of clay. plus
labor With no tariff thrown around
this industry we cannot compete with
workmen who use American machin-
cry and work TOR twenty-one cents
per day without reducing our wage
schedule to that OF the japanese. Ey-
cry Chinawdrc factory in this country
faces absolute ruin under the Under
wood tariff law.
And you farmers must not think
that you are not affected by this
menace. When the factories close
and the city men have no jobs. you
will have no market for your grain
and your meats. And did you know
that during the fiscal year ending
June so. 1914, under the Underwood
tariff. this country imported SS75,-
100000 more agricultural products
than the average for the last four
years under Republican rule? You
lost market of just that size in the
one year OF the Underwood tariff. Fur
thermorc, there were 100000 men
thrown out OF employment during tho
first ten months Of that Democratic
tarih' Unemployed men mean unfcd
families and unfed families mean a
curtalling OF your markets. Can YOU
raise wheat as chcaply as any place
on earth? Yet during the first ten
months Of this Underwood tariff Can
adian farmers sent into this country
four times as much wheat ms they did
in the corresponding months OF the
previous year They paid ten cents
per bushcl tariff. and sull sold the
wheat at the same price for which you
sold yours.
Not POpycock.
Our Democratic friends tell you this
talk about our present prosperity be-
ing due 10 war orders is popycock.