The Record Stands, 124. The Safest and Surest Way, 127. The Senate of the Sixty-fifth Congress, 282. The Treasury Situation, 19. The Vote in Maine, 148. The Wage Earner's Interest in the Tariff, 91 The War and the Election, 246. They Share in the General Hurt, 77. Tracing the Cause of Light Orders, 186. Trying to Prove Prosperity, 283. Twelve Months of Free-Trade, 208. Twin Stars in the Free-Trade Firmament, Underwood Didn't Mention That, 60. Upside Down, 5. Wrong Medicine, 307. Wage Earners Hardest Hit, 222. Watchfully Waiting, 17. War Taxes and Foreign Valuations, 184. We Are Not Sufficiently American, 138. We Can Stop Free-Trade, 64. We Ought to Produce Them All, 103. Weird, but Not Wonderful, 247. Wet Feet All the Time, 30. What Caused It, 4. What Must the People Think, 198. What Nine Months of Free-Trade Has Done, What They Need, 19. When the Mills Benefit, 150. Where Are the Customers, 90. Why Bother About Americans? 305. Why Not Now, 1914, 103. Will Pass Away, 271. Wisest and Best Benevolence, 222. Why Physicians Are Protectionists, 174. Election a Great Reversal-Marion (Ia.) Reg- Election Results Weird, but Not Wonderful, nal, 11. Factories Not Closed by War, but by Increased Facts that Make for Hopefulness-Philadelphia Facts Contradict Glowing Reports of Prosper- Facts of Business Depression, 30. Facts Relating to Bad Business Printed in Facts Which Free-Traders Can Neither Refute Farmer Is "Stung"-Indiana State Journal, 33. Farmer Shown Example-Louisana News, 243. (Mo.) Farmers Advised How to Mark the Ballot- Swedesboro (N. J.) News, 119. Farmers and Politics, 29. Farmers Are Asking Questions, 186. Farmers Exposed to Improve Foreign Competi- Farmer's Market and Standard of Living Re- Farmers Need a Good Market-Not Money, 19. Farmers Shackled-Washington Post, 134. Farmers Unprotected Because of Consideration Feed America First-Rocky Mountain Herald, Ferris, William T., States Condition of Busi- Figures Tell Depressing Story-Rochester (N. Finkel Umbrella Frame Company Sets Ex- Fiscal Policy a Record of Stupid Blundering, 275. Fishermen Have Suffered from Tariff-Spring- Fisler, John, Criticizes Curtis Guild's Tariff Flag Contract-Taunton (Mass.) Gazette, 84. Forbes, B. C., Demands "Made in America" Fordney, Representative, Gives Effect of Free- Fordney, Congressman Joseph W., Digging Up Foreign Goods Not Sold Cheap to Consumer Foreign Manufacturers Take Possession of Foreign Trade Balance, 55. Foreign Trade Loss-New York Press, 134. Foreigners Don't Want Our Securities, 7. Foster, Samuel M., Answers Inquiry to Bank- ers, 16. Foster, Samuel M., Correspondence Inserted in Free Ship Policy Ineffectual, 121. Free Sugar a Colossal Mistake-Lebanon (N. Free-Trade and Finance, 54. Free-Trade and Real Estate, 294. Free-Trade and the American Farmer, 65, 68, Free-Trade and Wool, 19, 74. Free Trade Auxiliary in Human Slaughter, 160. Free-Trade Bug Cost Heavy-Perryville (Mo.) Free-Trade Corn and Oats-Newton (N. J.) Free-Trade in Corn and Wheat, 304. Free-Trade Doctrine Falls Down-Hartford Free-Trade Effects Modified by the War-Phila- Free-Trade Depression Arouses Newspapers- Free-Trade Facts Submerged by New York Free-Trade Failure in United States, 7. Free-Trade Has Hurt Sheep Men-Lampasas Free-Trade Hits Hard in Northwest-Grange- Free-Trade Is Indeed a Disgrace-Northwest- Free-Trade Joker-Worcester (Mass.) Tele- Free-Trade Ladder Is Too Short, 173. 98. Free-Trade Opens the Market to Foreigners- Free-Trade "Prosperity" as Seen by Father Free-Trade Race for Prosperity, 222. Free-Trade's "Beneficent Advantages," 271. Franks, E. T., Replies to American Tariff Re- Frewen, Moreton, Says Low Wages Make Busi Frewen, Moreton, Writes on Protection in Ger- Fruits of Free-Trade Legislation Pointed Out Fuller's, Representative Charles E., Letter on Future Safe, Under Wise Leadership-Pueblo GALLINGER, Senator, Attacks Shipping Bill, 87. Gallinger, Senator, Presents Facts Relating to German and American Protection-Cedar Ra- German Pencils for American Pupils, 66. Germanize Trade of the World-New York Germany Abolished Import Duty on Food Prod- Germany Gained English Trade Through Free- Germany Helped by Great Britain's Free-Trade Germany Leads Us to a Protective Policy- Cedar Rapids (Ia.) Republican, 312. Glove Makers Affected by Tariff, Not the War Godchaux, Charles, States Condition of Loui- Gold Leaf Industry Suffers Through Free-Trade, Gold Shipments and the Great Underlying - Gold Supply Drained to Help Europe, 127. Gray's, Representative-Elect E. W., Letter on Gray, Charles, Pleased with Protective Tariff Great Britain Likely to Abandon Free-Trade, Great Britain's Free-Trade Policy Helped Ger- Grundy, Joseph R., Attacks Roosevelt Pitts- burgh Speech, 22. Grundy, Joseph R., Corrects Philadelphia Rec- Grundy, Joseph R., Tells Why Tariff Can't Be Grundy, Joseph R., Presents Convincing Argu- HAMERSLEY, R. J., Compliments AMERICAN 247. Hard Times in New York-Trenton (N. J.) Harding's, Senator-Elect, Reception at Tariff Harding's, Warren G., Speech at Akron, 189. Hay from Canada-Marion (O.) Star, No. 5, Hay Prices a Lesson in Protection, 162. Heaps, Hon. William James, Thanks for Mate- Hearst, William R., Expresses Views on the Hearst, William R., Gives Sound Advice to Heart's, William R., Patriotic Counsel, 172. High Price of Sugar-Indiana State Journal, No. 20, P. III. Hill's, Representative E. J., Letter on Elec- Representative-Elect D. A., Home Market Protected Will Make Future Hopwood's, Representative-Elect R. F., Letter Hosiery Trade's Opportunity-Fibre Fabric, 153. and Import Evil and a Remedy-Erie Dispatch, 276. Imports Being Cut Off Helps-Textile Manu- Imports Decreased by War-New York Press, Imports Increase from Countries Not Dis- Imports Increased in Spite of War, 217. Imports Surely an Invasion-Baltimore News, 165. Indiana Seventh District, 29. Indiana State Journal a Deserved Success, 28. Industrial Life-Saving Station-Philadelphia Industrial Paralysis Helped by War, 114. Industries Should Be Encouraged-Philadelphia Industrial Stagnation in Central New York- Iron Trade Is Taught a Lesson, 161. JEFFERSON and Lincoln, Protectionists- Jeffrey, Oscar, Refers to Doctrines of Calhoun Jones, Senator Wesley L., Introduces Bill to Joy, Henry B., Expresses True Causes of Bus- Joy, Henry B., Setting a Good Example, 48. Juilliard, A. D., Circular Replies, 112, 134, 150, Lairy, Moses B., Converted to Protection- Law on Marking Goods of Foreign Make, 242. Lewis, Alfred Henry, Tells How Mr. Wilson Lincoln, Abraham, Protectionist, 221. Lippitt, Senator, Voices Sensible and Sound List of Articles for Which We Depend on For- Lockwood, George B., Puts Sound Protection Locomotives and Freight Cars, 307. Lodge's, Senator, Letter on Election of 1914, 277. Loss of $430,000 in Ten Months, 283. Louisiana Petition for Injunction Against Louisiana Planter Calls Underwood Tariff the Louisana Sugar Industry Paying Pretty Dearly Louisana's Free-Trade Grievance-Philadelphia Low Tariff Disastrous-Sussex (N. J.) Milk Lumber Dumped on a Free-Trade Market, 162. CCARDLE, Mr., Speaks on McKinley Law on Marking Goods of Foreign McKinley's, President, Tariff Message to Con- McLean, John R., Gives Sound Advice to Dem- McLean's, Senator, Letter on Election of 1914, Mack, Norman, E., a Protectionist Democrat, Mack, Norman E., Comes Out for Protection- Mack, Norman E., Defends His Protectionism Mack, Norman E., Has Too Much Sense for 282. Mack's, Norman E., Protectionism, 304. Mack, Norman E., Will He Be a Democratic Made in America Campaign, 174, 175, 177, 195, Made in America Goods Demanded, 112. Made in America Products Association, 174. Manufacturers Have No Guaranty of the Fu- Manufacturers Name Articles Dependent Upon Manufacturers Tracing Cause of Light Orders, Manufacturers Want to Know What Is Going 146. Mas, Prof. Ernest, Solves Dyestuff Problem, Mas, Prof. Ernest, Thinks Dyestuffs Manu- Matthews'. Representative-Elect N. E., Letter Mechanic T lls What Free-Trade Did to Him Meeker's, Representative-Elect Jacob E., Letter Mepham, George S., & Co., Show How to Get Merchant Marine an Essential Thing, 124. Merchants and Manufacturers' Association De- Metz, Herman A., Statement on Dyestuffs Sit- Metz, Representative, Urges Facilities for Im- Meyercord, George R., Thinks Our Tariff a Milk Prices Show How Tariff Affects Farmers Mill Workers Should Remember-Fibre and Miller's, Representative Clarence B., Letter on Miller's, Representative Thomas W., Letter on Mills at Home Should Be Kept Running- Close; Tariff Blamed-Bristol (Pa.) Mills Closed Down-Tionnesta (Pa.) Repub- Mines Closed-Greenville (Mo.) Sun, No. 1, Missouri Business Is Poor-St. Louis Globe- Protection Platform-Rockville (Md.) Republican, 180. Molesworth, Sir Guilford, Sees Failure of Mondell, Congressman, Speaks on Sugar Tariff, 97. Mondell, Representative, Defends Tariff League Mondell, Hon. Frank W., Has Payroll Check Money Should Be Kept at Home, 274. Moore's, Representative J. Hampton, Letter Municipal Free Employment Bureau Report, New Jersey in Congress, 210. New York Times Divided Against Itself, 115. New York World Asks Why Bother About Nixon, Lewis, Believes in Protection for Mer- OAKLEY'S, Representative P. Davis, Letter on Election of 1914, 277. Moore, Charles A., 293. Payne, Representative Sereno E., 294. Ohio Republicans Squarely for Protection, 136. Optimism Is Being Carried Too Far, 70. Mills, 247. Contract Helps Woolen Over-Production Cry-Easton (Pa.) Press, No. Payroll Check Report Printed in Congressional Payroll Checks a Barometer of Business Con- Payroll Checks and a Stubborn President- Payroll Checks Report Now a Matter of Rec- Payroll Checks Report Suppressed by News- Payroll Decrease Shows Wage-Earners' Loss, 62. Peanut Policy in Tariff Making, 79. Penrose Listened to Now-Kittanning (Pa.) Pennsylvania Protective Union Is for the Pennsylvania Steel Company Reduces Force, 186. Pennsylvania Vote Shows Some Change- People Asked for Bread, Received a Stone, People Knew Better, 233. People Want a Protective Tariff-Davenport Philadelphia Merchants and Manufacturers' Philadelphia Record's Advocacy of "Made in Physicians Are Protectionists, 174. Pile on the Taxes-Philadelphia Inquirer, 146. Political Luck of Free-Traders-Rutland (Vt.) Political Prediction by Robert E. Sherwood, Pottery Industry Shares in the General Hurt, Presidential Election of 1916-San Francisco Presidential Suggestion for 1916 by W. F. Presidential Term of Seven Years Is Too Long Prices for Food Increased, 42. Prices Higher Under Low Tariff-Marion (Ia.) Primary Law and National Politics, 278. Problems After the War-Pittsburgh Gazette- Products of Improved Instrumentalities, 223. Protection Against Dumping, 246, 258. Protection and the European War, 73. Protection as William McKinley Saw It, 136. Protection Defined-Bristol (Pa.) Courier, 128. Protection Essential-Wheeling (W. Va.) In- Protection in Congress Districts, 139. Protection, Ingenuity and Energy-Michael J. Protection Is a Natural Right, 225. Protection Is Far from Being Dead-Wash- Protection Is Going to Be Needed-Des Moines Protection Is Plain Duty of the United States Protection Must Be Made a Straight Issue- Protection Pays-New York Evening Journal, 114. Protection Policy versus Free-Trade, 31. Protection Should Be Permanent, 115. Protection the Only Safe Economic Policy, 97. Protection to Be the Issue in California-San Protection Unites Progressives and Republi- Protection Unites Voters in Pennsylvania- Philadelphia Inquirer, 8. Protection Victory in Elections, 241. Protection Wanted Even by Free-Traders-Des Will Be Restored-Watertown 60. Protectionist Democrat, 258. Protectionist Theory of Money-By W. H. Protection's Best Argument-Holyoke (Mass.) Protection's Value Proved by European War- Protective Principle Has Not Yet Performed Protective Tariff Cyclopedia a Handy Refer- Protective Tariff Cyclopedia Announcement, Protective Tariff Cyclopedia a Valuable Docu- Protective Tariff Cyclopedia Advances Com- Protective Tariff Cyclopedia Pleases Editors, Protective Tariff Cyclopedia Pleases Hon. Protective Tariff Is the Only Way, 169. 190. Protective Policies May Bring a Merchant Ma- Psychological Incidents-Norwich (Conn.) Bul- Psychology and Hunger-Waterloo (Ill.) Re- Purchasing Power Curtailed, 235. Purdue Boys' Disappointment - -Princeton R AILROAD Bonds Defaulted, 54. Railroads Hurt by Democratic Legislation Reciprocity as Understood Grundy, No. 3, P. III. by Joseph R. Reciprocity Scheme That Won't Work, 235. Redfield, Secretary, Does Not Defend Under- Redfield on Domestic Textiles-Philadelphia Redfield, Secretary, Makes Ridiculous Asser- Redfield, Secretary, More Altrustic Than Sensi- Reduced Tariff-What It Is Doing-Marine Reed, George, Shows Tariff a Benefit to Aus- Representative Government, 149. Republican House Predicted-Washington Post, 8. Senate of the Sixty-fifth Congress, 282. Sherman's, Senator, Election Positive Protest Sherman's, Senator, Letter on Election of Sherwood, Robert E., Makes a Political Pre- Shingle Industry Handed Over to Canada- Shingle Manufacturers Forced to Reduce Shipping Bill Amendments Eliminated--New Shipping Bill for Buying and Maintaining Mer- Shipping Question Being Mussed Up, 86. Simmons, Senator, Wants the European Level Bay City (Mich.) National Farmer, 84. Smith's, Representative J. M. C., Letter on Smoot's, Senator, Speech on War Tax Emer- Snelling, Dr. Walter O., Thinks Protection Snyder's, Representative-Elect H. P., Letter on South Africa Blue Book, 114. South Always Democratic-Seattle Post In- South Protests Against Tariff--) South Should Remember the Policy It Sup- South Tired of Its Political Isolation-New Southern Planters' Blindness to Value of Statement of Ownership of AMERICAN ECONO- Philadelphia Press, 59. Promise- Steel Business Reflects the Business Depres- Steel Trade Shows Pitiful Slackness-New Steenerson, Representative, Approves Cotton Stone, Senator, Re-elected by Bucolic Bour- Straff, Charles. Answers Detroit Times, 310. Sugar and the Tariff-Scioto Gazette, Chilli- Sugar Beet Factories Put Out of Business- Sugar Company Reduces Its Dividend-Bay Sugar Conditon Pointed Out to Free-Traders- Sugar Duty Should Be Restored-Manufac- Sugar Industry's Destruction, 89. Sugar Industry's Only Hope-Bay City (Mich.) by Sugar Inquiry Democrats-Bay (Mich.) National Farmer, 8. City Sugar Is High Because Domestic Industry Sugar Mills Closed Ŏpinion, 179. Sugar Price Under Down-Pueblo (Col.) Low Tariff-Seymour Sugar Production Might Easily Be Doubled- Sugar Promise Not Kept by Mr. Wilson, 92. Sugar Schedules Unfair-Louisiana Planter, Sugar Statistics-New Orleans Modern Farm. Sugar Tariff a Failure-Binghamton (N. Y.) Sugar Tariff Restoration-Walnut Cove (N. C.) Sugar Tariff Should Be Restored, 95. Sugar Trust Alone Benefited by Free-Trade- Sugar Trust Gets All the Profits-Portland Sugar Trust the Only Gainer-Philadelphia Sutherland's, Senator, Letter TA on Election of ARBELL, IDA M., Appeals to American "Tariff"-Book by Lee Francis Lyberger Re- Tariff a Failure-Walnut Cove (N. C.) News, Tariff a Question of Wages, 44. Tariff a Vital Campaign Issue, 100, 144, 244, Tariff Affliction in Louisiana-Cedar Rapids Tariff and Low Prices-Waltham (Mass.) Free Tariff and the War-Washington Post, 154. Tariff Blunder and Extravagance Tax-Boston Tariff Blunder Should Be Rectified, 189. Tariff Causes Widespread Cincinnati Enquirer, 118. Dissatisfaction- Tariff Effect on Labor Is Deplorable-New Tariff Effects in Indiana-Indiana State Jour- Tariff or Income Tax-Providence News-Dem- Tariff for Discrimination-St. Mary's (W. Va.) Tariff the Issue in 1914; Again in 1916, 301. Tariff for Revenue Is a Misnomer-Michael J. Tariff Educational Campaign Needed-Michigan Tariff Helps China Wool Dealers-San Fran. Tariff Hurts Paper Box Industry-Philalelphia Tariff Hurts Trade, Record for Nine Months- Tariff is Halting Trade, 83. Tariff Is Politics, 295. Tariff Made Half-Pay Envelopes and Smokeless Tariff Net Result-Point Pleasant (W. Va.) Tariff Operation Suspended Only While War Tariff Plan for Revenue Rejected, 145. Tariff Reaction in Illinois-Minneapolis Jour- Tariff Records Jumbled-New York Mail, 32. Tariff Smashing Results to Date, 164, 236, 274. Tariff, Should Make It Permanent.-Bingham- Tariff Truths-Bristol (Pa.) Courier, 192. Tariff Yield in Pennsylvania-New York Sun, Taxes Because of Low Tariff, 133. - Towner's, Representative, Letter on Election of Toys May Be Made in America, 137. Treasury Figures Show the Situation, 19. Trusts Benefited by New Tariff-Indiana State UNDERVALUATION of Foreign Goods, 181. Underwood Didn't Mention Export Figures, 60. Wallace, A. J., Shows Business Sliding Back- Walsh's, Representative Joseph, Letter on War a Boon to Wilson and Free-Traders, 116, a Protective Tariff-Des War Argument in Favor of Protection, 115. War-and After the War-New York Press, 7 War and Free-Trade Do Not Harmonize-New War and the Election-St. Louis Globe-Demi War and the Tariff-Binghamton (N. Y.) Re- War as an Antidote for Free-Trade-New War Diverts Attention from Bad Effects of War Emergency Tax Law-Official Text, 205. War Helping American Industries-New York War Likely to Induce Great Britain to Aban- War Only Emphasizes the Need of Protection War Proved to Be a Democratic Godsend- War Shows Value of Protection-North Attle- War Tax a Misnomer-Okeene (Okla.) Eagle, War Tax an Urgent Deficiency Tax-Napollon War Tax and Government Expenses-Wells- War Tax Arouses Opposition from Business War Tax Asked of Most Peaceful Nation in War Tax Could Have Been_Avoided-Ipswich War Tax or Low Tariff Penalty-Philadelphia War Taxes and Foreign Valuations, 184. War Taxes in Plenty Coming-Philadelphia War Undoing Democratic Mistakes, 115, 273. Ward, George W., Approves Tariff League's In- State Wheat Prices Lower-Eagle Grove (Ia.) Eagle, White, K. N., Sees Unity Among Protection- White, William P., Condemns Government Leg- White, Wm. P., Thinks Protective Tariff Cy- William's, Ezra C., Views on Buy-a-Bale-of- Wilson Business Boom-Fibre and Fabric, 80. (Ill.) Republican Times, 310. Wilson Positively Repudiated, 232. Wilson Scolds and the Reason Why-Pueblo Wilson the Ideal Free-Trader-Pueblo (Col.) Wilson, Mr., and His Sugar Promise-Hearst's Wilson, President, Being Misled by His Asso- Wilson, President, Has a Strange Sense of Re- Wilson, President, Praises Service of Congress, Wilson, President, Will Not Help Business, 49. Wilson's Great Constructive Program Fails- Wilson's, President, Indifference, 21. Wilson's, President, Letter to Mr. Underwood Wilson's, President, Letter to Secretary Mc- Wilson's, President, Peace Policy, 234. Wilson's, Woodrow, Rating in History-Lew- Winslow's, Representative Samuel E., Letter Wood, William M., Makes a Plea in Behalf of Wood, William M., Says There Is Great Cry Wool and Sugar a Convincing Object Lesson- Wool Situation an Odd One-Oregon Farmer, Woolen Goods a Sample of Tariff Effects-- Workers Driven Into Idleness-Los Angeles Have Felt Low Working Hours Reduced, 223. Tariff-Norwich Workingman Knows About the Tariff-Phila- Workingmen the Worst Sufferers-St. Louis TALKING TO OREGON WOOL GROWERS, Congressman-Elect Sinnott Tells How Pendleton (Ore.) Tribune. The failure of the Democratic administration in Washington was painted in its true colors to the members of the Oregon Wool Growers' Association by Congress man N. J. Sinnott. The fiscal policy of the party had proven an expensive and damaging experiment, and the excuse furnished for the so-called war tax was characterized as so much buncombe or tommyrot, the blame for failure in the first instance, and trying to hoodwink the people in the second, being divided evenly between the Government and the ruling majority in Congress. The Congressman did not jump about the bush. He dived right into the thick of it and declared by way of introduction that his was to be a Republican speech, jokingly adding that he did not think that there would be any doubt as to that fact in his hearers' mind when he was through. Discrimination Against the West. "The present Democratic administration is doomed to failure if for no other reason for its partiality to some parts of this country at the expense of others," said Mr. Sinnott in part. Besides being a party government it is a par tial govenment, as all weak administrations are A Ridiculous Proposition. Certain Democratic leaders are foolish enough to say that manufacturing concerns are closed or operated on part time, (by Republican owners) in order to discredit the Democratic national administration and to make it appear that the Underwood Tariff law is a detriment and History Will Go on Repeating Itself. History repeats itself, and within the last three years we have been living under the history of twenty years ago, with such striking reproduction of events that it is startling to those who were in touch with the currents of national politics and American industry in the early nineties. There was the McKinley high Tariff a damage to business. Of course, they bill and the outcry against it; an outcry know that such a declaration is absurd in in which many Republicans, led by no less the extreme and that such a sacrifice of a personage than James G. Blaine, joined. business and such a hardship upon workThe very word "McKinleyism" ma a ingmen and their families would not be Republican cringe. It was anathema in resorted to by any sane business man, for the mouth of millions. McKinley was in- any reason whatever and assuredly not gloriously beaten for Congress in his for the mere purpose of injuring the home district, with his own Tariff bill as standing and influence of the party in the issue in 1890; yet that same Tariff power. A low estimate, indeed, must that law elected him Governor of Ohio in 1894 be which the advancers of such an arguand President of the United States in ment place on the intelligence of the peo1896. McKinley was repudiated at a time ple of this country as a whole when they when the prosperity of the country under seek to make the people or any part of his Tariff law was at high tide, and he the people believe anything so utterly rode back to power at a time when the ridiculous.-Tiffin (O.) Tribune. effects of the alternative policy hung like a millstone about the neck of the nation. Twenty years there was the same uprising against a high Protective Tariff. The same Republican defeat in the Congressional elections of 1910 foreshadowed Republican disaster in 1912-and this paper believes it would have come whether there had been a Progressive party or not for revolt against Protection, in the midst of the plenty produced by Protection, was in the air in 1912, just as it was The One Safeguard. The one thing that will safeguard American markets against the tremendous onslaught of the foreign manufacturer and exporter, is a Protective Tariff -not the kind of Tariff we now havea Republican Tariff, if you please. The Underwood Tariff instead of preserving the American markets for Americans would simply operate as an inducement to England, Germany and France to seek expansion of trade here. When the war will be under the necessity of accepting apt to be, more or less. The people of the West in 1892. The same old Democratic party is over the labor of these great nations have been discriminated against more than any came into power on the same old theories, other part of the Union. Agriculture is our with the same old phrases in the mouths the Democratic Congress done to help this in- of its editors and orators. The same old dustry along. Eighty per cent. of all agricul- Bryan, who came to Congress on the chief means of making a living. And what has tural products are on the free list. That's the answer. the House are Protectionists, but on account wave of reaction against the McKinley A great number of Northern Democrats in bill, came to Washington again on the of patronage considerations and Presidential crest of a nation-wide wave of protest pressure they have surrendered their principles against Protection. to be persona grata in Washington. Some of them have already received punishment for their betrayal of the interests of their constituents, as it was no doubt their Tariff votes which in a material degree contributed to their defeat at the polls a month ago. The Underwood Tariff Fiasco. The Underwood Tariff has failed in which worth while noting that during the first six months of this Tariff $10,000,000 worth of lum ber has been imported from British Columbia, ever way you look at it. As an illustration it is any old job that offers and at any price. Naturally, the price will be on such a basis as will enable the mill owners to offer their products at lower figures than ⚫ the high wage mill owners in this country can meet in open competition-the kind of competition that the present Underwood law so palpably encourages.Springfield (Mo.) Republican. Then in 1914, as in 1894, came the adverse verdict of the country upon the failure of Democratic theories to realize popular expectations. Again, as in 1894, Must Have a Protective Tariff. the country was in the slough of indus- The United States simply must have a trial despond. But for the war in Europe. Protective Tariff or its industries, old which provided a Democratic alibi and and new, will be swamped when the Euhalted the depression which was spreading ropean nations quit fighting and return to from the factory to the farm, the defeat their previous peaceful employment. The of the Democratic party would have been very poverty of the trans-Atlantic peoples as decisive in 1914 as in 1894. What the will constitute a dire menace to our workWhen we consider that the tax is forced 1894 result foreshadowed the 1914 result ers, for any wages that will support life upon the country because the Democratic forecasts. History will go on repeating will be welcome across the ocean in the administration forced the Free-Trade itself.-Muncie (Ind.) National Republi- face of the destitution that is bound to Tariff on the country, then we learn can. where to locate the blame for this new public annoyance.-Pittsburgh GazetteTimes. while our whole import of such commodity during the entire previous year amounted to a little over $1,000,000. ensue after the war, and American labor will be exposed to invincible competition THE Free-Trade sliver has been cut unless it is safeguarded.-Detroit Free into smaller and very thin pieces. Press. |