Evening journal., 1916-10-02
NO INpusTRIAL pEPREssION IN ENGLANn.

nURING the first eight months OF the calendar year
- 1914 Great Britain at peace. and her total ex-
ports for that period in the neghborhood OF
Sl5So000o0o During tho first eight months OF 1916
Great Britain was engaged in the most gigantic srug
gle IN her history, and bearing a heavy burden of
financing her allies Many Of her factories were en-
gagged in the manufacture Of munitions and thou
sands Of her workmen the firing line their
places in the mills being taken by women. Neverthe-
less. the total exports Of Great Britain during this
eight months period valued at nearly S2OOOOOO-
0oo Not much evidence Of industrial prostraton there
despite the declaration Of our free-rade Democratic
friends.
Exports during the month Of August 1916, increased
about S75O0oOO0 over 1915, the chief increase being
In manufactured articles cotton textiles increasing SIS
100000, and iron and steel manufactures Sl25O00OO
Exports of cotton the United States for last
August totaled 100000 yards compared with $685.
600 yards, August 1915; wooens. 100000 yards com.
pared with 100000 yaros the same month last year
England is lighting and fabricating and making pro-
gress in both directions.
Our trade figures for the eight months ended Au-
gust 1916. will not be available for some weeks but
The official figures from Great Britain for that period
amounted TO S1730000 0o For the six months ended
June 1913 under the Republican protective tariff they
otaled s32o0oO0O In spite OF the stress OF war Eng
land increased her hold on our market for the six
months period 1916. 30 per the 1913 period
For the first six months of the calendar year 1914 just
before the broke out. and under the operation
OF all the Wilson Underwood law. our imports from
Great Britain toaled S154OOOO0O an increase OF S22-
100000 the 1913 period but the lower rates Of
duty carried by the Democratic law resulted in less
revenue. despite the increase of imports and that
revenue had TO be made mp by way of internal taxa.
ton.
England is an exporter Of raw material TO any
considerable extent She exports manufactured pro-
ducts and every dollars worth she dsposes of in the
United States means the displacement of dollars
worth OF domestic product and the cutting down OF
the American laborers opportunity TO make that pro-
duct The wage rate OF England is almost one-haf
that paid to labor in the United The wage rate
Of Germany is about one-thrd our own Recently at
the Trades Union Congress in Birmingham England
representatives of 100000 British mill workers voted
by over one million majority for resolution demand
ing that Great Britain return a protective basis
and the resolution they adopted fine specimen
OF the Republican argument for protection as one ever
read II declares for he adoption of methods for re
stricng or preventing the importation of CHEAP mann
featured goods produced lower rates OF wages and
under labor conditions than prevail in this ene
land country" The British Board Of Trade the first
of this year. also declared for return TO the protec-
tive policy.
Were they striking at the United States where the
rate is higher and labor conditions better than
those Of England? No They are afraid of German
competition. which before the war was undermining
British foreign trade. ard breaking the do
mestic market of John Bull II Germany must buck
against high tariff in England and France and Rus
sia and the United States is operating under the near
free-trade tarin law which the Democratic party de-
clares to be- II anything high where are the pro-
ducts OF the ptance paid labor Of Germany going to
find the easiest outlet? Where will protected England
sell her products IN not in free-trsde market The
xorkmen OF this country had better wake up take
leaf from their British brethren and vote for pro-
lection bearing in mind that Woodrow Wilson is
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