The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1916, Page 7

a de REMOVE THE SHADOW! Give Washington It’s Place in Prosperity’s Sun! Washington has indeed been made the “Goat" by the national Demo- cratic administration! No other state has suffered so severely the blight of Democratic Free Trade. Washington has been cruelly sacrificed to win the favor of other states with more electoral votes! Almost every one of Washington's products has been laid open to com- petition with the cheapest kind of Oriental labor. The great Eastern and Middle Western markets of the United States have been flooded with just the products that Washington has to sell—manufactured or produced abroad, shipped into the United States and sold at prices too low for white labor's competition. During the last four years, most of which period was Democratic free trade, lumber and shingle imports into the district of Washington alone rom British Columbia were almost five for one what they e for the preceding Republican tariff four years. Is it any wonder Washington's great- ustry has been paralyzed? Yet the “ultimate consumer” has not benefited a dollar's worth! The coolie labor of Canada has profited at our expense. Thousands and thousands of tons of coal are now shipped in duty-free —barge loads of it—e ton depriving a Washington miner of a just wage. Washington mine owners have been forced to abandon costly works in favor of Canada and its Hindus. Entire mining towns have been deserted. Just before Democratic Free Trade one mine was opened at a cost in excess of $500,000. It had to be abandoned, and subsequently it filled with water, without ever yielding a ton of coal for commercial purposes. The shameful desertion of the Halibut industry has been another blow to Washington by the Democratic administration. The farmer, too, has suffered. Butter imports into Washington were $3.680 for 1911, 1912 and up to October, 1913—under the tariff. Under trade for the balance of 1913 and all of 1914 they were $291,468—an ase of more than eighty-fold. In 1913 Washington imported $3,289 worth ofeg 1916, $426,599 worth—jumping up almost 140 fold! PROTECTION- That’s What Washington Needs! For 1915 and Strang & Prosser STAR—MONDAY, NOV. 6, 1916. PAGE 7 (PAID ADVERTISEMENT) FOR NATIONAL HONOR! For Washington’s Prosperity; Hughes and Republicanism America must be enlightened and brave—a tower of strength to all the world. America, at the right time, must lead the warring world to peace. Just now our Eastern states are on a joyride of Prosperity whose inspiration is the bloody shambles of Europe. Republican protection must save the East from the ruin of collapse; Republican protec- tion must save the West from the ruinous com- petition of cheap Oriental labor. Washington Lumber, Shingles, Coal, Fish, Eggs and general farm products need that Pro- tection that only Republican Tariff principles, backed by a fearless Republican President, are willing to give. Charles E. Hughes will retrieve the stand- ing of America abroad; he will protect America at home. MAKE WASHINGTON LEAD THE HUGHES PROCESSION TUESDAY! a a Canada Gloats! Canada is gloating over its successful invasion of the American lumber market—while its own markets are protected from attack by strong tariff barriers. Read this dispatch from the Vancouver, B. C. Province: Shower Lumber on Old Uncle Sam Canada Sent $27,345,236 Worth Across Line in Last Fiscal Year. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Offi gathered by the United States govern al statistics ment, and by the Canadian government at Ottawa, show that Senator Chamber was mistaken when in recent speeches he endeavored to show that the Oregon lumber market has not been invaded by lumber from Canada 1 it er appears that the export of lumber fre Ci a to the United States, according to Cana 1 figures, is even greater than is shown by the ited States der of commerce. om the official Canadian report it appears that n 1915 Canada shipped to the United States Jumber worth $. 7891, and in 1916 (fiscal year) had in- reased its exports to $27,345,236. The Can in figures further show that in 1915 a shipped to this country shing valued at 159, and in 1916 shingles valued at $3,619,409. since 1912, when there was a duty of 50c a thousand, the imports of Canadian shingles have increased more than three fold, until last year they amounted to 8,876 carloads—equiv- alent t inloads of thirty cars each; practically a train- load a day for every working day in the year If Canada had not sold these shingles, Washington would have sold them, Every man, woman and child in this state suffered ly or indirectly from this baneful effect of Dem- ocratic free trade—the farmer, the business man, the manufac- turer—all! Hughes and Alaska A former governor of New York—one of the most farsighted statesmen America ever produced—purchased Alaska. His name was William H. Seward. To him the State of Washington owes a limit lens debt Let another former governor of New York—Charles FE. Hughes: develop Alaska; develop it along progressive, practical, permanent ines. Republican votes in Congress, united with all others to give Alaska its government-owned and operated railroad Charles FE. Hnghes will carry that railroad through to a succeasful and trium phant conclusion. He has @ald so emphatically. He is tho friend of Alaska in every sense. And, too, he is the friend of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, of a larger navy, and of adequate defenses for the Pacific Coast He is strongly on record tn favor of both those vitally 1m- portant issues-—-Alaska and the Navy Yard! You who have the blood of the Revolutionary fathers in your veins you, and all good American citizens—what do you think of a Prosidant who will retain in his cabinet Secretary of War Baker, who in a public address last week made an unwarranted and dastardly attack @® tho character of the heroes of the Revolutionary war—the men who fought to give us our heritage of freedom? WHY | MUST VOTE FOR HUGHES: BECAUSE There are no deceptions in his life or words. He is a man of the highest personal honor; a man whose private life is clean and pure; BECAUSE A man of the deepest human sympathies; a man of the most exacting standards of life and deeds. BECAUSE He is the sincere friend of the laboring man; witness his splendid performances as Governor of New York. BECAUSE He will keep the nation from war honorably, without running up a billion-dollar war-time debt, as the present Democratic administration has done, in ‘‘No-War’” times. RECAUSE He will resist and prevent the handing over of America to the manufacturers and speculators of foreign nations who would flood this country with goods made by cheap labor. BECAUSE He will, as a true friend of the workers, compel protective legislation that will insure the best interests of America. BECAUSE Charles E, Hughes will put a stop to the terribly costly inefficiency and extravagance that have characterized the present administration, BECAUSE His election will mean a forward step for the women of the land, whose power for good at the polls is unlimited. A THINKING VOTER WILSON SAYS: “Labor unions reward the shiftless and incompetent at the expense of the able and industrious.” “Labor unions drag the highest man to the level of the lowest.” “T am a fierce partisan of the open shop.” “The usual standard of the employe * * * is to give as little as he may for his wages.” The eight-hour day on railroads means that the man who is now on a five-hour run gets five-eights of a day's pay--so says one of organized labor's leading consul. Europe’s Great Joke: ‘He Kept Us Out of War’ Vote for Hughes and Your Own Bread and Butter!