The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-05-09
HOW A PROTECTIVE TARIFF POL
ICY SAVED THE WORLD
FROM GERMAN DAM
NATION

has locked arms and is "hand-in-
glove" with Colonel Henry Watterson
and Colonel George Harvey In oppos-
ing the league of nations and is 9TH
erWise embarrassing the administra-
ton the achievements Of which have
been so brilliant as to command the
almost universal admiration of all
| lie peoples OF the earth
But we are reminded that the very
name Of the Manufacturers Record
implies that it is printed in the inter
| est and for the benefit of the manu-
facturers, the most of whom are re-
publicans, because that party has sur
feited then on protection and they
have all more or less become million
aire "plutes.'
Having grown fat on the bounties
/ of government nothing could be more
pleasing to them than to see the dem
l0cratic administration at Washington
criticised and embarrassed in the
"house of its friends"
Surely the manufacturers are max
ling big enough profits without fur
Their protection, and, for the love
lof Mabel, should have a decent re-
gard for the poor, unfortunate and
long suffering consumers
Don't do it, Colonel Edmonds. Why
join the two famous critics who have
a grievance? You were not a mem
Der of that unfortunate pilgrimage to
the home of the president of Prince
ton in 1912.
The last eight years have been the
most brilliant record of the republic
and historians will So pronounce it
Don't be led astray .-Ocala e Fla
Banner.
If anybody can make out any bril-
liant progress of America during the
last eight years except that which
came wholly as result of the war,
he would certainly be worth travel
ing long distance to meet.
Prior to the tremendous activity
caused by the European wars de-
mand for our food and our manufac-
tured products we had period of
great business depression and Of
acute industrial dullness. The war
caused tremendous burst of activ-
lity when in f9f4-15 England and
France poured their billions into this
tons. But even then it was due to
the manufacturers of America that
the worlds civilization was saved.
If the industrial development of the
north and west had not been on the
gigantic scale which it had attained
under protective tariff we could
not have furnished the munitions 20
save Europe, nor later on TO save
ourselves. 8t h
Germany's strength lay in it's truly
amazing industrial growth based
wholly on its protective tariff policy.
Our salvation from German damna-
ton was made possible by the pro-
tective tariff which had brought into
existence our vast manufacturing in
terests. We killed our Louisiana
forced TO save ourselves from q sug.
ar famine, to renew it by protective
tariff which brought it back to life.
/ We were dependent upon Germany
for dyes because before 1914 the mar
row minded policy of some manufac-
turers who consumed dyes made
them eager to buy their supplies
cheap, even if in doing so they
should kill the prospect of our be-
coming independent of German dyes.
If there had been no protective
tariff we would never have had the
great industries to which President
Wilson and the whole nation turned
so eagerly for the strength with
which to win the war 1t was our
tariff developed. steel industry that
threw against Germany a weight Of
one half of the worlds steel output
which saved the day.
All our patriotism, all our armies
would have been in vain if we had
not had the industries which made
possible the equipping OF these ar
mics with guns and explosives.
Without protective tariff we
would never have had these great
industries to fall back upon. Indeed,
we would have been so badly handi-
capped as the south was in 1861,
when it entered upon war without
the industries necessary for the sue
cessful prosecution of war.
The old free trade theories of ante.
bellum days chained the south to cot
ton slavery and caused this Section
to neglect TO a large extent its mar
velous natural resources. Under a
wiser economical course, the south
should have led the nation in pro-
Elective tariff policy and concentrat-
ed its energies upon Industrial prog
ress. Had that been done the-south
would have become the worlds cen
ter of industrial activity and wealth.
How much longer will the south
worship at the poverty creating
shrine of free trade while other Sec
tions bound forward in wonderful
wealth through the blessings OF
protective tariff policy and the spirit
which upholds the manufacturers IN
contrast with that spirit which calls
them "robber barons" so prevalent
with many southern papers ?-Balti.
more Manufacturers Record.
It affords us pleasure TO say that