The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-11-02


time has come for careful air-minded and just hearted
examination of the record of the Wilson administration. On
hand the opponents Of that administration must not bear
false witness against it. ,~
Upon the opposing hand the supporters Of that adns
on must not try to up run from its record
The democratic party into power March land
the president promptly convened congress in special
sion to his parys program First consideration
given to the tariff That logical for the democratic party
i'm the campaign of 1912 had put the tariff issue to the forefront
1T had declared its conviction that tariff protection for Amer
can wage learners unconstitutional.
So the summer of 1913 given up the enactment of
the free trade Underwood tariff law and the into
Operation October of that year.
Immediately there fell upon the country conditions of acute
distress among the wageearners and dire ruin in the business
world. Factories shut down ran with diminished output
and the land was filled with idle and So recently
las February H. 1915 shown by the United States Bureau Of
labor satistics-see World Almanac page 127here
still unemployed in the single day in New York 1851
and workers. and that survey covered only part Of
the citys working popuationthe building trades and dozen
other lines In the dreadful winter of 1934 shown by
veys of charitable organizations than 100000 workers
were unemployed in New York alone.
To relieve this appalling distress charity had to be
ganized scale previously unknown in the United States
From the Atlantic to the Pacific bread lines formed
houses opened and all sorts of vacant buildings turned into
dormitories for the homeless poor.
Business failures unprecedented numbers-l6,03
in 1913 1890 in 1914 and 49, 1856 in 1915 In the dreadful
panc year of 893under another democratic administrator
they but 1922 See the reports of R. g. Dunn Co.
Railroads went bankrupt and thousands Of railway EN-
poyes of work In 1913 1920 miles OF railroad Wen
Into the receivers hands, in 1915 2043 miles, with toa
mileage in ecevershp that year of 4oo as shown by the re
,ords Of the interstate commerce COMMISSION
All that distress and ruin followed the passage OF the demo
rac free trade tariff law, and conditions passing iron
bad to August 1914 The practically annule'
the democratic tariff law, the withdrawal OF millions
European workers from fields Of productive labor reduce
1.-THE output of the begerent countries that little was lett TO
sale abroad
AT the same time the brought quick and unprece
dened demand for everything could produce and manuac
ure in the United States lumber being about the only eXcep
| ton
1t is idle for the democratic leaders to deny these facts fo
they are known frshand to Ill the thoughtful voters Of the
Pacific Northwest Our farmers know what caused the eX
traordny demand at rising prices for the products OF then
farms Our miners know the Our fisherman know it
Our stockmen.
One of these days the war will end Nothing is GER
tain than tat and unless the republicans in power
shall then be back to the normal working of democratic fret
trade and facing intensified invasion of the markets of the
United States
If the voters of the Pacific Northwest knowing these fact
and ruin that democratic policies brought to this country be
fore the they will have only them selves to blame for re
turning bad times-Spokesman Review.