Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-05-18
THE TARIFF AGAIN.

THE TARIFF AGAIN
the old time conservative dyed in the WOOL repub
cns still endeavor to show that the democratic tariff is DIES
trucve to American industry and their efforts amusing
not reasonable To illustrate, the following is reproduced
from the editorial page of the Pocatelo Tribune:
''Steel rail production is Of the best ndca-
lions of the country business The last Republican
tariff law became effective the latter part Of 1909.
During 1910 our mills produced 3634oOo tons of steel
rails. In 1911 2823O00 tons. In 1872 1928 900 tons.
In 1913, nine months of which was under Republican
law, produced 100000 tons. The Democratic
tariff law took effect October 4, 1913, and in 1914
steel rail production dropped to 1945O 900 TONS while
importaons from Canada increased 100 per cent. In
1915 produced 100000 tons, and imports from
Canada, compared with 1913 increased $50 per
Under the abnormal conditions created by the
the United States is the chief source of supply
for rails and since January first of the present year
orders have been booked for 100000 tons. Do not
get idea this is due to the wonderful success Of the
administrations although trying to take credit for it."
-Pocateo Tribune.
Not verifying the of the figures steel
rail production commenting the which influenced
the market such railroad building foreign export trade and
the like it is interesting in this search for the far reaching
dsaserous effects Of the democratic tariff quote further
from available statistics and the following have been
under May 10th date line in the Associated Press dispatches
giving the figures steel production to date follows:
New York, May 10.-For the third time this
year the monthly statement of untitled orders for the
United States Steel corporation issued today, broke
all records The orders stood April 30 at 9S29551
tons, increase of 498,550 tons those on March
30 which broke the previous high record Of S568466
February %.
than doubled in year On April 80 1915 they
reported at 4362,244 tons, since which time each month
has shown an increase. The plants of the corporation
have for some somths been working at full capacity
Passing from the last above quoted let the reader pass in
his search for disaster to the following paragraphs CLEANED
from article american Prosperity Is 1t Real Per-
manen?" by Charles Speare appearing in the May number
of the American Reviews of Reviews political purpose
touching that assertion sometimes made by the Poca
teo Tribune that present prosperous conditions only the
result OF business and the future under
democratic tariff. We cite follows:
lit is no longer matter argument that the
business which the war developed was the originating
influence on the subsequent industrial activity To
March the value of war materials exported had reach
ed $6oOOOOooo and will be billion dollars by the end
OF December. Frequently ID to 20 million a week is
shipped of shells and explosives.
mo more is it believed that the United States is
dependent on war orders" to keep its factories
ming and its citizens employed Great is fogeign
trade-it will be at least $5000O00000 this calendar
year it is only a small percentage of that internal
trade legitimately stimulated by unusual crops
mandng high prices and by the filling in of the
derstocked shelves of merchants from
There have been four times MANY freight pur-
chased to date this yeas as last year, and nine times
as many engines, while in month much steel
rail was contracted for in the twelve months of
1913. 1t is not foreign buying that compels the
mobile maker to-day to deny delivery of his for
periods of sixty to nnty days, but the Unsuitable de-
mand of the American public. Further, it is known
that large orders for metals have been refused Euro
pean agents because of the difficulty in supplying
home requirements
This statement above given perhaps not full but illus
rates difference in comparison with bald senseess parti-
statement like that of the Pocaeo Tribune which seldom
appears only where deep partzan prejudice exists Adding
the citations makes the discussion full and impartial
The method Of answering the Tribune it
used might be employed 1t is very logical state that
conditions and could result by any
tariff that merely keeps foreign trade out but by that
our American Industries ntead of lodging and preventing
competition have gone into the foreign markets and en-
countered It, The tariff issue is political cripple,
become issue again The needs of protective tariff
stead of being merely football of INSCRIPTIONS politicians