The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-10-19

| There is one particular subject with
which the United States must deal
| in order to meet the revulsiOn in pro-
| duction and trade which will accom-
| pany the close Of the great war. That
| is the Tariff. l 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 num-
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 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. It
will be far more attractive after the
war. 1t is highly probable that even
England will resort to 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.
Euop tbo nop,oorof bovo coQO
that something must be done, for they
have provided a tariff board to ascer-
tain and report the true facts to which
tariff law Is to be applied. In Mr..
Taft's Administration the Republicans
provided for tariff board to report
to the President and it was appointed
and doing excellent work. When the
Democratic House elected in 1910
came in they starved it out Of exist
ence by refusing appropriations. In
the last session of the 61st Congress |
the Republicans passed through both |
Houses new bill for tariff board to |
report to Congress. There were some
slight differences of detail in the two
Houses which were agreed uron in
but the Democrats filibus-
tered against the final conference re-
port 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
country wants tariff for revenue only
hey may put the making of it in the
hands of the Democratic party. But,
IAN any sane man contemplate that
party making protective tariff? In
he first place they can't do it honestly.
They don't believe in it. They were
,Orn and bred in different faith.
They have been crying so long that
is an abuse of power and an
domination that they can't reconcile
to protective tariff, and
hey regard the Underwood tariff as
model. That is what we are to have
{ the Democrats go back. The Under
7oOd tariff still, with perhaps here
nd there slight modification regard
1g dye stuffs and some other articles
Thich can be shown to gentlemen
rom Missouri and elsewhere Well, :
there ever was a clumsy, ill cOnceiv- =
d misfit law, it is the tariff which
ears MI Underwoods name We had
lready discovered what it's effect was
hen the war in Europe began.
Many mills and factories were
osed or running but a part of the
me. Great numbers of laborers were
lrown out of employment and the
arket for American products was
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