Evening journal., 1916-05-25
sOUTn AMERICA COMPELLED no BuY HERE.

SOUTH AMERICA COMPELLED TO BUY HERE
m HE New York Journal of Commerce recently gave
4 table showing the value of exports to the var-
Gus South American nations for the nine months
ended September. 19l4,-S73 3692547-and September.
-$1o85S46l5-the figures being taken from sta
tstics published by the Department of Commerce
Cut off from the normal Of supply in Europe
by the war; said the journal Of Commerce. in com
menting the S3000OO0O increase for the nine
months period 1t appears that Southern buyers
looking to manufacturers here for merchandise of all
descriptions"
This correct diagnosis Secretary Redheld
cannot load the mails down with sufficient govern
ment-paid publicity material to convince thinking
people 10 the contrary
During the nine months ended September 1913 the
world enjoying peace. and. under the Republican
protective tariff the United States reapng the
fruits OF husbandry and the reward Of manufacture
spead out the counters the stock-in trade of
every selling nation 20 catch the eyes of Latin Amer
lea. We competing for her patronage with
every commercial country, and competition
then bolstered up by the financial operations Of
the National City Bank Of New York, was the
S5OO00000 overseas trading corporation then ia im-
mediate prospect Nevertheless our exports TO the
South American republics during that uine-months
period toalled s1O2i4795. nearly sS7OOoOOO more
than for the 1914 period and $1,000 600 than for
the 1915 period when the shops OF Europe
either closed by the hand of war or bending their
energies 10 supplying military paraphernalia for the
beliigerents. is a pretty good commentary the
effect OF a protective tariff industrial America.
After the war what? All Europe will be steaming
up regain lost trade The hosts Of war must give
their sanguinary employment and labor in the
mills. They will work side by side with women.
Wages will be pitifuy small The markets for those
nations will lie In the western hemisphere Huge sur
puses Of products will be piled up that higher efi-
cheney may be gained and labor constantly employed.
kes. and the United States shorld thon be wallow-
our country will be victim Of this commercial drive
lndustrially paralyzed at home how can we hope to
extend our sales in South America or even retain
"hab under a Democratic administration foreign
war mas enabled us to acquire? Already the prospect
oi ioresners dumping shores has set secre-
tary Redhelds knees to Gathering
moreover because the Latin-Americans have not
yet developed manufactures, they will have no in
ausrles 10 protect and will enact no laws 10 nre-
vent dumping and the consequent driving ont ol
OF american goods They will buy at the lowest
prices obtanable
II the United States is TO retain an important ros
uon in South American trade. our manufacturers ant
exporters must FIRST feel secure in the home n,artet
That must be the citadel from which thew direct thi
commercial conquests abroad man cant febt !
he is attacked in the And no business manufac
turing mining, agricultural ever feels secure nm
der a Democratic administration. The change IN r,
publican control must in 1916. or the reactio
from the stimulating effects Of the European war wi
stop the heartbeats OF Industrial enterprise in II
United States.