The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-20

now enjoys is due in large measure to the tremendous purchases made here by the Ibeliger1t governments Let us see about that. According to g. report made to Congress on July 6 of this \year by the Department of Com merde the total exports of all manu- factu rers that can be in any way class flied as war babies for the ten months ending April 1914, before the var began, amounted to s291, .227. The list of manufactures making up that total is comprised as follows: Aluminium and manufactures of, brass and manufactures of aeroplanes and parts of, automobiles and parts of, cars, carriages, other vehicles and parts of, copper and manufactures of copper, electric machinery, explosives, automobile tires, firearms of all kinds, steam locom otives, metal working machinery and machine tools of all kinds, rails for railways, wire, manu- factures of iron or steel, mems boots and shoes. harness and saddles, wool wearing apparel, uniforms, blankets, zinc spelter and manufactures there of.
 .~I believe that 1t will be admitted that the list enumerated Is quite com- plete and includes every line of man. ufactures that can in any degree be called war goods As said the total value of those goods exported during the 10 months preceding the war, when the war naturally could not have affected the trade. was oyer $291, D00,- 00o- Then the report gives the value of the same articles of export sent abroad during the ten months, endinE April 1916, or during the war The total fs $1,1sS,s7a.s42- Aanufactnr- ing is the barDmeter of industry and these, as the report shows are our manufactures Now tO get at what the war has done for us and to show to. what degree our prosperity Is due to- the war, As Senatar Brandegee claims, deduct the amount manufac- tured during the ten months before the war hum the amount Inanuf1ctur- ed in the ten months during the war and you VIII get the amount of manu- featuring prnsDerity that can be Justly credited to the unfortunate horror across the sea- The deduction shows that during the ten months of the war the manufacturers were $S7S,2ss,615- That was the excess of exports in fa- vor of the WAT period and can be fair 1y charged to the war. That is~ an all most fnconcefvable amo91nt of money, nearly one billion of dollars But let us see w1faF proportion or percentage that startling amount is of our total manufactures For the ten months ending April. 1916. the total value of our mapufactures amounted to $33,- 900, ,00o.00o. Thirty-three billions of dollars! The war exports are less than three per cent of that amount to be exact two and two-thirds per cent If the war should end tomor- row and God grant that it might. its effect on the total business of the country would hardly be felt
 What do you think of the war prosperity about which the calamity howlers of the Senator Brandegee type are er-shoutfng7 There is about as much truth in the other parts of Sena- tor Brandegee's keynote speech as there is in this part of it.
 You have heard what the Senator from Connecticut has said about our prosperity, when he is talking for his party and doesn't core much about facts. Now listen to what anotffer Republican who probably knows quite as much about business as the Senator from New London. Charles M. Schwab, formerly head of the United Steel Corporation, makes this state ment:
 "A great many people think that the recent great production of iron and steel is due to the war, but it is | not true. The war has given 8 stimu- | Jus to the industry, of course, but it may surprise you te know that less than ten per cent. of the steel manu- faetured in the United States has been used outside of the United States, If you were looking for facts about the steei industry oy any otfer busi- ness proposition would you be likely to take the word or advice of Senator Brandegee or Charles M Schwab and that is asked without the slightest dispaTagement of the business sagac- ity of the senator who has the dis tinction of coming from the same town with Tom Waller and Bryan Ma4an
 "It is not my intention to weary you with a recital of the record of achievement of the Democratic party
 or, the Wilson administration That
 was so Magnificently done in this same hall only three months ago by the chairman of your convention that sent delegates to the great convention at St. Louis that had the high honor of, renominating President Wilson, l that it would be mere assumption on my part to do SO. Hon. Homer s. Cummings in that notable convention address that was not only a keynote speech for Connecticut but for the country. left nothing to be further at tended to in his masterly mastering of facts that must appeal to fair thinking men and patriotic Americans in this campaign of peace. prosperity and Americanism in its best and breadest sense
 "It is not necessary to argue or dis
 cucs those great acts: handy neces- sary to mention them for the tariff 1 legislation with it's income tax pro- vision; the federal reserve bank law the country from bondage and made Uncle Sam as president of the bank of the United States; the rural credits and land bank legislation that eman- | cipated the farmers and the agricul-
 tural interests of the country; the child labor bill, that conserves the i future fathers and mothers of the land; the labor laws that give to the toiling masses standing and dignity 1 never before known or at least appre- ciated, all these and many other just