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Reasons Why You Should Vote For Hughes and Fairbrnks Nov. 7
READ WHAT OTHERS
THIKK OF CONDITIONS
(By Congressman Rodenberg of Illinois.)
Four years ago our Democratic friends
made certain direct and specific promises
to the wage earners of this country. They
promised the men who work in the mills,
in the mines, in the factories, and on the
farms the men who earn their bread in
the sweat of their brows that If they were
successful in wresting control of the Gov
ernment from the Republican Party they
would place upon the statute books certain
economic laws which would bring increas
ed prosperity to every American home and
to every American fireside. Has that prom
ise been kept? Has the Underwood Demo
cratic tariff law proven a benefit or an in
jury to the wage earner, Has it increased
or decreased his opportunities for employ
ment? Has it directly or indirectly been
the means of establishing a single new in
dustry in any State in this Union? Has it
created a market anywhere within the con
fines of the Republic for the only commod
ity that the workingman has to sell, name
ly, his labor? No; no a "thousand times,
no! From the day that the Underwood tar
iff law went into effect on October 19, 1913
until the spring of 1915, when we first be
gan to feel the stimulating effect of the
tremendous orders for European war sup
plies, complete industrial paralysis rested
like a blight upon every part of our com
mon country. Starvation and stagnation
confronted us on all sides. The mines quit
working, the mills and factories closed
their doors, and across their silent and
smokeless chimneys was written tnn epi
taph, "Died of an overdose of the Under
wood bill." Applause on the Republican
bide.
A half million men in New York alone
were compelled to patronize the bread
line, and 200,000 in the city of Chicago
daily visits to that one institution that al
ways springs into existence under a Demo
cratic administration, the free soup house.
Every railroad sidetrack In this country
was filled with long strings of empty
freight cars, and the rabbits built their
nests and bred their young in the weeds
that covered the roadbeds.
Our imports from abroad Increased by
leaps and bounds, and there was as much
joy and rejoicing among the manufacturers
of Europe as there was gloom and despair
among the manufacturers of America. Our
custom revenues fell off, wages were cut,
dividends were passed, bank clearings de
creased, credit was destroyed, and failurs
became the order of the day. Compared
with the last year of a Republican admin
istration the gross earnings of the rail
roads alone fell off more than 4 per
cent in the first year of the Wilson admin
istration, and Iron productions decreased
more than 25 per cent. The steel mills of
this country were reduced to 40 per cent
of their normal capacity, two-fifths of all
the looms In our woolen mills were Idle,
and $40,000,000 of capital Invested in cot
ton mills became unproductive, while the
importation of cotton cloth from abroad
almost doubled in quantity,
ad FMBAIK
A vote for Hughes is a vote for per
manent prosperity;
A vote for Hughes will make the name
"American Citizen" something to be
revered instead of an idle euphonism
The United States is approaching the great
est Industrial crisis in its history
What will the laboring man do after the war?
Will he be forced to compete with' the cheap la
bor of Europe or will he be protected from for
eign competition?
A Vote For Hughes
Dl
Means i
For the Laborer;
For Our 'Produce;
For Our Industries
Read what great newspapers and prominent peo
ple nave to say on this vital
question.
ONLY HUGHES
"Industrial Preparedness" can save na
tion from depression, is asserted
by Portland Telegram
To prepare for the approaching industrial storm we need strong men at the head of
the government.
Four years more of the Democratic tariff, lack of preparation, vacillation, and section
al legislation will bring disaster. Now is the time to avert it.
Those who want the country to regain the high place she once held; those who want an
administration strong at home and respected abroad, one fair alike to labor and
capital and one which will protect American industries throughout the land,
should help the Republican party to win. '
Morrow County Republican Central Committee
Paid Advertisement by Morrow County Republican Central Committee.
AW 11 Lh 11 WIN
READ WHAT OTHERS
SAY OF CONDITIONS
(From the Eastern Press.)
New York, Sept. 28 The total exports
from the United States (or the year ending
June 30, 1916, amounted to $4,333,658,
000. According to the New York Times,
which is enthusiastically supporting Presi
dent Wilson and which has made a careful
study of the subject, three-fourths of these
exports constitute war trade. That is, of
the export trade of the United Statnc dur
ing the year ending June 30, $3,249,000,
000 was due solely to the European war.
What does that mean?
It means that the amount received from
Hie war trade would be more 1'ian suffi
cient to pay 3,000,000 workmen $3.50 a
day for an entire year of 312 days. What
is to become then, of at least 3,000,000
American workmen when the end of this
war cuts off this trade? Actually, a far
greater number of workmen will be affect
ed, because, of course, the sum received
for war supplies was divided between ma
terial and labor, with a percentage of prof
it to the employer. It is a reasonable as
sumption in view of the character of the
war exports that labor did not receive more
than half of the sum paid to the United
States for war supplies. Of course, some
workmen received much more than $3.60
per day. Others received less, but allow
ing for these variations and for the share
which went for material, rent of buildings,
interest on plant, wear and tear of ma
chinery and employers' profit, it is a- per
fectly reasonable assumption that not less
than 5,000,000 workmen were paid their
entire wages out of the receipts for war
materials.
Does it take a college professor or even
a politician to figure out that the greatest
need of this country today is industrial
preparedness; that if this nation falls to
take steps now to protect itself against the
terrific slump in its export trade when the
war ends, it will experience a period of
unemployment, soup kitchens, bread lines
and all the suffering and privation which
come when literally millions of men are
thrown out of employment and must walk
the streets seeking opportunities to ex
change their labor for bread? The ques
tion which the intelligent voters of this
country will ask themselves is "Are we for
continued watchful waiting, or for indus
trial preparedness?"
Among the war exports were $173,000,
000 for gunpowder; $3,900,000 for dyna
mite and $252,000,000 for other explos
Ives; $18,000,000 for fire arms; $37,000,
000 for cartridges; $7,000,000 for aero
planes; $24,000,000 for barbed wire, used
in making defenses; nearly $100,000,000
for horses and mules; $138,000,000 for
automobiles and parts thereof. Of course
the Instant that peace is In sight the de
mand for all these things must cease. In
fact, many of the contracts already award
ed to American manufacturers contain a
clause permitting cancellation at any time
the war shall end. .
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