Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 3, 1916, Page 10

and American Industries Not for Revenue Only To recount the advantages of the Protective Tariff—as brought into being and fostered by the Republican Party " .—would require pages and pages of space. It changed us from a nation of dreamers into a nation of DOERS; from occasional producers of raw materials into INDUSTRIAL LEADERS OF THE WORLD. Before the coming of the Protective Tariff our most valuable resources lay dormant—in many cases unknown. Raw materials were sent abroad, to be returned, manufactured into finished products by the poorly paid labor of other s America Paid the Freight Under a Protective Tariff, the nation became INDUSTRIALLY INDEPENDENT. Its thousands of factories and mills gave work to hundreds of thousands, and profits—both for labor and capital—remained here. America was no longer simply paying the freight. But the pendulum is swinging back and the seeming prosperity of today, while actual, for the moment, is DE- LUSIVE. It came in a day and will pass in a night. The party of low tariff or no tariff—at the best, a tariff, not for protection of home industries, but for revenue only—is in power. The first ten months of the present Democratic tariff sent armies of unemployed to the bread line and the soup house. . Then war munition orders flooded the country and not only gave employment to everybody but at higher wages than ‘ever before. R With the close of this world-war will come an end to this transient Eldorado and a return to the same Demo- cratic tariff that caused the unemployment, the bread line and the soup house only two short years ago, and then— The Aftermath? : Already with the manufacturing facilities of Europe shrunken and many shipping ports idle, importations of foreign-made wares into this country greatly exceed the totals under the Republican tariff. When the war ends and the floodgates are opened for long-held-back shipments—what then? Low-paid European labor will compete without an adequate tariff wall with high-paid labor of America. There can be but one result—American labor will be reduced to the low level of foreign labor. Its opportunity for the:enjoy- ment of necessaries in abundance will be lost. With it will go some of the comforts and luxuries of life, time for self- culture, ownership of the family cottage and the responsible, contented, happy American home. With Hughes in the White House the tariff wall will be rebuilt, to hold back the ruinous competition of cheap foreign labor. WHY SUFFER CALAMITY BEFORE BUILDING THE WALL? Is the Democratic low-tariff or no-tariff evil to be allowed to prevent permanent prosperity? Thereis butone way to check its paralyzing influence as soon as war ceases— Rebuild the Dyke SEND TO CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVES who will again make secure the proper measure of protection to American labor and American industry—a protection that will make and hold American industries foremost in the world. d, with such a Congress, SEND TO THE WHITE HOUSE Charles Evans Hughes who stands for “America first and America efficient.” “Proper Protection Provides PERMANENT Prosperity” Rebuild 7 NN A Protective the Tariff / : ‘ Tariff: Dyke ' The security of —Only i i . American Republicans ‘ o Labor and will do it i\ g Industries