Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-12-14
WATCHFUL WAITING NEEDED.

Friends and foes of Protection alike agreed
that the close of the will bring and critical
problems for the United States and while there OPP
posing views to the precise form of the the
future holds for the matter of immigration and of
trade there is doubt whatever about the necessity
of preparedness of sort to meet the unknown
dtons that will then confront says the Philadelphia
Ledger.
The above statement true Everybody admits that the
United States will be confronted by critical problems the
close of the present and nobody knows what they will
One school OF eminent thinkers that will have face
competition from nations possessed with the highest degree of
efficiency result of the while another equally famous
school of thought says that this efficiency along military
lines only and that the by dverng the worken from
ordinary lines OF production and killing many of hem has dis
organized the means of production in those nations and
ed them permanently inefficient On hand is said that
the dlsorganzaton of industry abroad will result mmigra
ton to this country while the other is contended that the
scarcity OF men abroad will many former residents the
war stricken countries to back Differing from those who
assert that the will prove injurious American industry
because of the immense production that it will take
place. those who that Europe will out of the war
broken and exhausted and will be unable our goods be-
cause unable to produce anything to sell to Since the time
that work laid off the tower of Babel there has
been such vocal dscod exists in this country in regard TO
what is likely to follow the war
Several contradictory used by same
pie Some OF those who argued that aborer from America will
go to Europe to produce great quantities of goods there to
sold in competition with American made goods will in rn saw
these foreign made goods will drive American made goods
out OF the market because foreign labor will be cheaper It
must be evident that aborer leave their iohs
here and to Europe they will only because thew can
there and if they get better pay abroad than here
then cheap foreign labor will not exist
1t formerly argued that the cheap labor Of FREQ
England would produce goods cheapy that American mills
would all be closed and this contention still heard But the
organs that it. particularly the American Economist
IN the same breath insist that England going to adopt
tectlon which, there is any virtue in its argument means
that 1t will no longer have cheap labor which to make
things that our mills manufacture
The Van Ceve Advertising agency last week issued pro-
test against gloomy prediction of industrial disaster which
alleged must overtake at the close of the European
ana the protest is well founded Without assuming to know
what will happen and venurng opinion which is as likely
to be right other and which we reserve the right r.
change without notice. believe that those are
who contend that it will take Europe time to get back
normal produchon and that while she is getting back we will
suffer somewhat but not much by her lack of ab
to exchange goods with But there reason for
unless we allow those crying ''wolf to stampede u.s.
Since nobody knows just what will happen nobody knows
now to avert It, II it is going to be bad take advantage
It, 1t going to be good the only thing that we can do
of thngs.-Twn Falls Times i
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