Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-04
TARIFF THE OVERWHELMING ISSUE.

seTT seems to me that the tariff is the overwhelming
issue in this campaign. 1t certainly is foremost in
Ohio Il certainly foremost in Indiana, in Pennsyl-
vania, in New York and in the great manufacturing
States of New England"
That was the reply made by Niyrou r. Herrick to the
question Of what seemed to be engrossng the at
tention OF Ohio voters in the present campaign Mr.
Herrick lately ambassador TO France and the Re
publican Senatorial nominee in the Buckeye State has
started active campaigning for the November election
II was upon his return from campaign trip with
Charles r. Hughes that Mr.. Herrick gave the above
answer.
In all the manufacturing States. he said, business
men and laboring asking what will happen IL
the end of this war should and find the Under
wood tariff still in force. Farmers are asking what
viii be the effect the price Of their products when
Europe again produces normal crops and the food-ex
porting countries begin looking around for other mar
kets for their surplus
He called attention to the fact that Ohio manufacture
ers who were forced to close their plants under the
Democratic tariff do not have to ask what the effect
viii be- Thousands Of Ohio skilled workmen who lost
their jobs a few months after the Democratic tariff
went into effect do have to be told what will
happen
fright here in Ohio had our experience with
the disasters Of the Underwood tariff" Mr. Herrick
added MY own city OF Cleveland constrained TO
raise the of 100000 to provide work for the I'M
employed and thus prevent soup kitchens and other
relief for thousands of Industrious, thrifty work
ing men who were walking the streets-thrown out
Of employment through fault of theirs by the
Democratic tariff In February, 1914. in Cincinnati
there were 22S51 experienced machnists out Of en-
ployment: there were IL 200 mechanics and helpers
out of employment Soup kitchens were established.
or the eighty-sx manufacturing industries thirty we're
entirely closed down. ten were working only 20 per
cent of full time thiry-eght working only 81
per cent OF full time eight working so per cent
OF full time and single Of the entire eighty
six was working full time And the experience OF
Cincinnati and Cleveland was the experience of Pitts
burgh of Philadelphia New York. Chicago and Of
every other large manufacturing center in the coun-
try"
He said that perhaps have in measure for
gotten this state OF affairs which existed short a
time ago There has been much to obscure it in their
minds unparalleled in the history of mankind
plunged suddenly into fever OF business activity
such country has known before and prob
ably never will know again. On vastly larger scale
It is like the great boom that Northern States
perienced in the Civil War when the issue Of green
backs meet the expenses of the inflated the
rency and a Wild fever OF speculation ending in the
crash of 1873. was followed by years Of hard times
and unemployed labor
The ending of the European war, which certainly
will not be postponed beyond the ending OF the ad
ministraton which will be voted into Office No
rember will subject the financial and industrial in
terests OF this country TO strain of readiust
,nent which will be felt by every business ant
every wage-earner and every man and woman VIII
votes in this election, is the view Mr. Herrck take
OF It.
'The ending Of the will turn out thousands an
thousands of now engaged in the making @
handling of ammunition and supplies of speci'
kinds that we are sending TO Europe in great quaint
ties Mr. Herrick added 1--WE shall then have on on
hands labor readiustment problem only less IN mas
nude than that which will confront Europe when II
millions of soldiers lay down their weapons and tur
TO the arocations OF peace.
fThen the ending OF the war will deprive of