CURRENT COMMENT BY NEWSPAPERS. What the Editors Are Saying About the Tariff and Kindred Topics. Canada's Tariff Will Stay. The falsity of its statement—“Loyal Canadians pay 40 per cent. extra for the privilege of riding in Ford cars than do the citizens of the United States," having been exposed, the Times proceeds to dilate on the price that might be paid under certain conditions. Of course, it has hardly a leg to stand on, for the fallacy contained in the statement runs through the whole of its argument. The Times' conclusions are false because its assumptions are unfounded. What is the use of the Times, or any other journal, advocating Free-Trade during times like these? The Tariff took a jump during the last session of Parliament, because of the heavy expenditure occasioned by the war. And a high customs Tariff will be maintained, it matters not whether the Liberals or the Conservatives are in power. Large sums of money must be raised, and the Tariff is the best means for the raising of it. A party which during its 15 years of office reduced the Tariff but 1% per cent. cannot with very good grace complain of an increase of duties under the stress of a terrible and costly war. Whether for good or evil, Protection is with us to stay for some years. Those who criticize this policy have no alternative for the raising of the revenue.— Moose Jaw (Canada) News. It Will Be Settled. Democratic campaign literature sent to the press of the country two years ago makes strange, amusing and sometimes interesting reading these days. Here, for nstance, is a paragraph from a campaign sheet sent from the Democratic National headquarters in the fall of 1912: Why should we blind ourselves by the inroduction of numerous other issues which could not be settled in the present campaign when we have before us the greatest issue of all, the Tariff, which can be settled. But the ghost of the murdered Banquo will not down! Settled? Wait until the people get a chance to vote in November, 1916, and, as in the past, it will be settled for a generation at least.-Little Falls (N. Y.) Journal and Courier. Prevents Increased Productiveness. The Department of Agriculture has delivered a terrific blow at Democratic policies by presenting statistics to show that growing sugar beets enriches the soil and, by rotation of crops, increases productivity an average of 41 per cent. It was the reduced Tariff on imported sugar and the certainty of final Free-Trade in sugar that closed many of the beet sugar factories and drove many farmers out of beet raising, until the war cut off, im portations and restored the industry. Free sugar not only cuts off revenue and kills the beet sugar industry, but also prevents realization of increased productiveness of others crops incident to rotation of sugar beets. Bay National City (Mich.) Farmer. Maybe He Knows. The Peoria Journal quotes with commendation the following statement attributed to Colonel Gorgas: Add to the laboring man's wage from $1.25 to $2.50 a day, and you will lengthen the average American's thread of life thirteen years. In view of the fact that Democratic Tariff legislation took all the wages away from about three million American wage earners, and that only a part of them have got back on the pay-roll even since the demand for war supplies set in, it would be interesting to know just how many years have been subtracted from the average American's thread of life in the process. Perhaps Editor Pindell, who whooped it up on the side line while the Free-Trade crowd ran the steam roller over American industry and American labor, can give us an answer. So far as the Democratic party is concerned, it seems to find it much easier to talk about doubling the laboring man's wages in campaign time than in permitting him to have any wages at all after it throws open the markets of the United States to the free entry of the products of cheap foreign labor.-Muncie (Ind.) National Republican. The Truth Is Irritating. There isn't anybody, we don't care whether he be Republican, Democrat, Prohibitionist, Socialist or whatnot, that would not welcome a return of the kind of prosperity this country enjoyed prior to the advent of a Democratic Free-Trade Tariff low. There is no denying the fact that business has been away below normal and is still at a low ebb, notwithstanding that there has been some improvement. The News would welcome a return to old-time prosperity, yea, invites it. Telling the truth, however, seems to be very irritating to some of our friends, but it was ever thus and ever will be.-Louisiana (Mo.) News. The Indisputable Fact. The Democratic administration may be sincere in its assertion that the army of unemployed is no larger than usual, but it will be forced to admit that some hundreds of postal employes have lost their jobs and some hundred others have had their wages cut. If adoption of such policies be necessary in Government affairs as a result of business depression, the administration can scarcely be heard to deny that a similar course must be followed by private enterprise. The indisputable fact is that in practically all in, dustry wages have been cut or the num ber of employes reduced.-Hampton (la.) Recorder. Conditions W Be Still Worse. While the war has temporarily nullified to some degree the mischief of a Democratic Tariff, the Protection issue cannot be evaded. With Democratic revenue legislation producing only a national deficit and with the heavier burden of internal taxation, the Democratic party will be compelled to answer to the people upon whom they have placed these additional burdens in order to open our markets to foreign-made goods-a policy that has nowhere benefited the consumer. The disastrous effects of this legislation were felt throughout the country for nearly a year before the war began. When the war ends the conditions will be still worse. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Has Acted as a Bar. The soundness of the Protective Tariff principle has been abundantly demonstrated by the effect of the European war, which has acted as a bar against importation of foreign goods and has compelled Americans to buy at home. In July, 1914, when the war began, American industry was going down the toboggan at a rate that would soon have brought it to the level of 1893-4. The revival in the last few months shows the advantage of shutting out foreign importations of goods in order to keep American mills running, American laborers employed and American money at home.—Hampton (Ia.) Recorder. Worse Than Worthless. Any treaty that hinders our development industrially upon land or sea is unfair to the American people and should be repealed. After the amendment letting in foreign vessels to the benefit of this 5 per cent. reduction of customs had been adopted in 1913 we stated that the preferential duty paragraph in the Tariff measure was so bungled as to make it worse than worthless for the development of an American ocean fleet. And time has shown we were right, as under the above provision its benefits to American vessels is nullified while its enforcement will dangerously reduce our national revenues.-Marine Journal. Greatest of Smoke Abaters. The Hamilton County Times remarks that the coal mines in Sullivan, Greene, Vigo, Clay and other Indiana counties are being closed, and asks what is the significance. The significance is that there is no demand for the output of the mines, and the significance of that is that we are now in the throes of a Democratic administration. The publisher of the Times should know by this time that a Democratic administration is the greatest smoke-abater in the country.-Sullivan (Ind.) Union. FREE-TRADE IN LUMBER AND IN SHIPS. Men Cannot Be Protectionists for Themselves and Free-Traders for Everybody Else. Marine Journal, July 31. Before the Federal Trade Commission in Chicago the other day representatives of the west coast lumber manufacturing interests demanded that the Free-Trade principle be applied to the transportation of their products, and that foreign-built ships be admitted to the coastwise commerce between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States. Western lumber manufacturers have asked this before. The last time that they proposed it they were defeated two to one in the United States Senate, a majority even of the Democratic Senators finally voting against them on this issue. But apparently they are going to try again at the next session of Congress-by endeavoring to secure the support of the Federal Trade Commission. Lumber of certain kinds was put upon the free list by the authors of the Simmons-Underwood Tariff of 1913. that time many Pacific lumber manufacturers, including probably the very gentlemen who are now asking for FreeTrade in ships, came all the way across the continent to Washington to oppose Free-Trade in lumber. They opposed it as American citizens entitled to the Protection of their Government, solicitous of the welfare of their working men. They professed to be stalwart Protectionists. At We can think of no class of men fit to match these Pacific coast lumbermen in sheer blind selfishness and greed except those people of Hawaii who, enjoying the highest kind of high Tariff Protection on their raw sugar, demanded Free-Trade in transportation between Hawaii and the mainland of the United States. When these Hawaiians appeared in Washington they were bluntly asked to show on what side of the fence they stood-whether they were Protectionists only for themselves and Free-Traders for everybody else and every other industry. They were asked if they would support a free sugar bill if a coastwise free ship bill were enacted. That was all that needed to be said. The Hawaiian gentlemen promptly took themselves away from Washington. The same question should be put with emphaIsis to the Westcoast lumber manufacturers if they come to the national capital asking for Free-Trade in ships. Do they want Free-Trade in lumber continued and extended? Do they want all kinds of lumber put upon the free list? Men can be Protectionists with entire self-respect, and they can be Free-Traders with entire self-respect-there is room for honest difference of opinion. But men cannot be Protectionists for themselves, for their Own business, and Free-Traders for everybody else without being-well, hogs. CHENEY It is full time that these Western lumbermen were made to define their attitude. Means Much to the Unemployed. After getting into power on a promise to reduce the high cost of living, the Democratic administration finds itself forced to publish statistis it has collected proving that retail prices in 1914 were, On an average, 2 per cent. higher than in 1913. Everybody knew that prices were higher and many people will be ready to believe that 2 per cent. increase is a low estimate. Even a 2 per cent. increase means much to those American workmen who lost their jobs because a Democratic Tariff threw our markets open to the products of workmen in Europe and Asia.-Bay Shore (N. Y.) Journal. Is It Any Wonder? Reports show that this country imported $126,000,000 more goods from abroad in seven months under a Democratic FreeTrade than it did under a Republican Tariff law. In other words, fellow FreeTrade sufferers, that much Americanearned money went out of circulation at home to fill the pay envelopes of the slanteyed, yellow-tanned cheap labor, rice-eating foreigners, while the factories at home lost that much trade and consequently could not afford to give jobs to the workmen here. Is it any wonder there are hundreds of thousands of American working men and women idle?-Moravian Falls (N. C.) Rascal Whipper. asm. What Is Needed Now. What we need most now is a good batch of our old time political enthusiWe need more "Protective Tariff" dope and a host of fighters for that great and necessary political doctrine of the Republican party. This country cannot make ends meet the way we Americans want and expect it to meet by using Free-Trade with the world. We don't and we won't live the way the foreigners do, and we won't work for such outlandish wages as they are paid. There is no argument about the matter. We want Protection and a chance at making a living without being hampered by foreign competition.-Adair (Ia.) News. For everybody and every purpose-Manu SILKS facturer or Merchant. Man or Woman. THE DUNLAP SILK UMBRELLA 176 and 180 Fifth Ave., bet. 22d and 23d Sts. 171 Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW YORK. The Wellington CHICAGO. 914 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Agencies in All Principal Cities of the World. Coward REG. U. S. PAT. OFE" "A Friend to Your Feet" Made in American Factory SOLD NOWHERE ELSE JAMES S. 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TARIFF LITERATURE We give below the complete list of the DEFENDER Documents published by THI AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE, with number of pages and prices. The whole list will be sent to any address for one dollar. Order by number only. Which Copies Copies .30 .00 3-"Home Production." First Prize Essay, 188. C. D. TODD, 24 pp...$0.13 $0.25 4-"Protection Protects." Speech by Hon. WELDON B. HEYBURN, U.S.S., of Idaho, 32 pp.... 7-"The Protective Tariff; Its Advantages to the South." Speech of Hon. J. C. PRITCHARD, U.S.S., of North Carolina, 16 pp....... 10 "Farmers and the Tariff." THOMAS H. DUDLEY. 18 pp..... 11-"Abraham Lincoln on the Tariff -Extracts from Lincoln's Speeches and Writings on the Tariff." Address by Hon. W. F. WAKEMAN, at Liberty, N.Y. 16 pp.......... 13-"Workingmen and the Tariff." 16 pp...... 17-"Protection for American Shipping." 8 pp.. .10 .20 .10 .20 .10 .20 .10 .20 .10 .20 77-A Democrat Who Flopped. Why Did He Flop?" Speech of Hon. JOSEPH CROCKER SIBLEY, at .08 .15 Bradford, Pa., September 17, 1900. E. H. AMMI 8 pp...... .10 .20 .08 .15 78-Protection .05 .13 .10 .20 .10 .20 .10 .20 Early Days of the Government." By a Southern Protectionist. 12 pp. 30-"The Dingley Tariff." 48 pp.. 32-"Blaine's Reply to Gladstone" and "Free Trade or Protection." Speech of Hon. CHESTER LONG, M.C., of Kansas. 34-"Blaine's Reply to Gladstone," in German. 24 pp.... 36 "Taking Liberties perity,' by COWLES, Morristown, N. J. 16 pp. 37-"The Tariff and Cuban Reciprocity." Speech by Hon. WILLIAM ALDEN Address SMITH, I. 16 pp.. .10 .20 with Pros T. Z. a of Michigan. Reciprocity," Member of Congress. WRITE TODAY FOR CATALOGUES. EASTWOOD WIRE MFG. CO. Belleville, New Jersey 65-"Shall the Republic Do Its Own Work?" Speech of Senator JOHN P. JONES, of Nevada. 80 pp.... .60. 1.20 is Panic Proof." Speech by Hon. J. H. GALLINGER, U.S.S., of New Hampshire. 16 pp.. 79-"Prosperity Under Protection." Speech by Hon. P. P. CAMPBELL, M.C., of Kansas. 16 pp..... 80-"Impossible Reciprocity." Views of CHARLES A. MOORE on FreeTrade with Canada in Natural Products. 4 pp.. 82-"German Tariff Text of the Trade Arrangement Speech by Hon. LESLIE M. SHAW, Duty on WARREN, of Wyoming. 16 pp.. .10 .20 87-"Tariff Reduction Always Brings Extracts from a Speech of Hon. JAMES T. McCLEARY, of Minnesota. 8 pp.... .08 88 "The Roosevelt Idea of Tariff Revision." Extract from speech of Hon. JAMES T. McCLEARY, of Minnesota. 8 pp.... 89-"Reciprocity-What It Is and What It Is Not." Extract from speech of Hon. JAMES T. McCLEARY, of Minnesota. 8 pp... 90 "Trusts and the Tariffs." Extracts from speech of Hon. JAMES T. MCCLEARY, of Minnesota. 8 pp. .08 91-Condemns the German Agreement." Resolutions of the American Protective Tariff League remonstrating against the Agreement as illegal, unfair and contrary to the policy of Protection. 4 pp... 93-"The Vital Issue Before the American People." Speech by Hon. JOSEPH W. FORDNEY, of Michigan. 32 pp...... 94 "Not a Menace of Our ForestsInsignificant Portion of American Timber Growth Used in the Production of Wood Pulp and Paper." 8 pp.... 95 The Tax on Corporations." By Hon. JOHN S. WISE. 8 pp...... .08 98 "The New Tariff as Its Friends See It." By CHARLES HEBER CLARK, in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, October 1, 1910. 8 pp... Exchange Value of Farm Products." The farmer's condition at the present time as compared with his condition in 1896. Speech of 100-Story of a Tariff." The Tariff sional Record.) Extracts from debate in the extra session of the Sixty-first Congress. 93 subjects 577 speeches copiously indexed, Above list subject to change without notice. AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE .18 .50 Offices: No. 339 Broadway, Between Worth and Leonard Streets. New York. by a 16 pp.. 39-"American Tariffs and American Sheep.' Speech of Hon. CHARLES H. GROSVENOR, of Ohio. 16 pp. 40-"Let the Tariff Alone." Speeches by PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, at Minneapolis: SECRETARY SHAW, at Peoria; SECRETARY ROOT, at Boston, etc. 16 pp. 43-"Reciprocity and Tariff." The late THOMAS B. REED and Hon. LIONEL R. SHELDON, on the Economic and Legal Aspects of Reciprocity by Treaty. 32 pp.... 44-"American Merchant Marine Discrimination Duties." Speech by Hon. STEPHEN B. ELKINS, U.S.S., of West Virginia. 32 pp.. 45-"Why First Voters Should Be Protectionists" and "Protection Our Proper Permanent Policy." Speeches of Hon. JAMES T. McCLEARY, of Minnesota. 64 pp.. 49-"Economic Aspect of Reciprocity." Two Lectures by JOHN P. YOUNG. 16 pp.... 50-"Tariff Revision-Shall the Dingley Law Be Tampered With?" Expressions of Views by U. S. Senators and Congressmen. 12 pp.... 52-"American Tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley and Dingley." "Prosperity is the Issue, Protection Is Panic Proof." Speeches by Hon. J. H. GALLINGER, U.S.S., of New Hampshire. 128 pp. THOMAS B. REED, of Maine, Feb. 1, 1894. 16 pp.... CYLINDERS, DANDY ROLLS. DIGESTERS 63-"Farmers' Egg Basket." 4 pp.. (Parts of Congres |