The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-11-02

| fous'- ~ congress. Tn" responsibility
~ ur.u -. anI T., u. sec how Il met
! 2; Sarr'i" after = "Gm" into power
| /. cuart"d j pem"cra'i" tariff law,
/ know 81 q, tn" Uudcr"""d bill. u open
! "a ~, gates "f America - the ia"-
| tories - Europe. II did a"aE with the
! E"pIhI.rar uriu'iplr - protection 20
! Iu.r,,.t' Industry and American lapoT
! ,,H.dl mot enter into an exhaustive
! discussion of TIA" tariff question or o.
! f." an expert analysis of its underly-
| ing iTi!r.;pirs. Tn" facts shoW--eXperi-
cncc proves It---that discouraged prog
! res. unsettled business. threw men out
! Of employment. and deprecated me
, value 81 property. II made living hard
or. and II Subt~artcd from the sum OF
| human hLppil.rS~ EsNcryoNa knows
! tina, IN the factories OF Europe the aver
iaGc lihor!IE man is PAID wage upon
! which an American citizen could. not
| and will not live Articles: are made
cheaper n Europe than We can make
| them with our high-wag scale IN tais
! country: 50. unless there is pro-
/ tcctlyc duty on goods made IN Europe
| = duty measuring the difference be-
tween tn" wages paid here and the
wages paid ;htr"--ih" American manu-
farturcr WIll hc compelled :" close
irun and ths American workman Will
/ - Withou' employment. This is
I riair. pf;t"'i"aI proposition. and no one
lean dcny It's Snu-drcS%. No one wants
H." wages uf the lah"rlrS man or
America reduced 10 the standard OF the
hnaupcr- paid ,ahor 81 Eur"p'. No ono
raute the rrca, industries Of this couh-
~. forced - close their doors. No one
wants those now employer 20 nave
nothing 20 do. Yet that - exactly the
,"uQi;ion which prevailed shortly AFTER
the Wilson administration came INTO
power and the Underwood tariff law
made rs theories fclt. European coun-
ir!tS poured iheir goods into America.
Factories al over the country closed
:hclr doors Thousands Cf people were
out Of employment. Free soup houses
were established IN every industrial
city Of the country. Farm products
lruopcd t. prices never before heard
~ except during III" last administra-
ton % President Cleveland. when
similar industrial! panic prevailed In
this country as q result OF Democratic
tariff lecIslat!nn. These are facts which
must be admitted, even though our
Democratic friends seek 20 CLASSIFY
them as the effects OF entirely differ
cNt causes.
European War Saved the Country.
The European war saved this coun-
Try irdustrially. People were called
IRON. the factories OF Europe to per-
form services upon the fields OF battle.
Those great armies, aggresat!ng TO-
0l0. 600 men. had 10 be fed and clothed
and supplied with The instruments or
war Europe had no goods 10 sell In
this country. Europe r"u,d not pro-
duce goods IN sufficient quantity for
It's own consumption Europe was
forced TO bay its supplies from the
Un!;cd,Statcs for III" proper prosecu"
ton OF the wa.. american industry
survived and revived. and the law Of
free trade was suspended ny the artin-
cial and extraneous conditions produced
by the World war. We had captured the
markets Of the world. because the war
had Eliminated every con- pct!tor. and ne
we're the sole producer. Thus were
prices and wages increased and the de-
nand for farm products created. Thus,
because Of conditions resulting entirely
from the European war. the Democratic
party was saved from tho defeat Il de-
served IN 1916.
Democratic waste.
II g useless ~ review the reckless
srcnding OF money during the prosccu-
ton of the war. War costs stuPendous-
". and everyone knows x is not only