Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Figures Tell the Story. [ARTICLE]

Figures Tell the Story.

That the results of the new freedom are something more tangible than a mere “state of mind” is Indicated by the following dispatch: I “Ottowa, Jan. 12.—One of the ’ most interesting features of the ' Dominion’s trade figures for 1914, ' just made public by the department of trade and commerce, is that under the Simmons-Underwood tariff Canada’s exports to the U. 8. j have shown a remarkable increase, ! while her Imports from across the border have decreased considerab- ' ly. In 1913 Canadians purchased ' goods from the U. 8. to the value of $442341,840. In 1914 they purchased $421,074,528 worth, a decrease of $21,267312. t “In 1913 Canadians sold to the U. 8. goods to the value of $179,050,796. Last year, under the new tariff, they increased their sales to $213,496,406, or $34,445,610 more than in 1913. ! ‘The decrease in imports is all the more remarkable as it is the first in twenty years, the increases each year in import trade with the U. 8., especially during the last six or 7 years, having been phenomenal.” This decrease in exports to and increase in imports from Canada during the first full year of the new freedom, represents in itself the direct displacement of the product of thousands of wage earners, and indirect injury to thousands more. Why look about in the clouds for the sources of hard times, when they can be seen so near at hand. Thewar in Europe did not affect in any appreciable degree our commercial relations with Canada, and therefore this alibi for the new freedom is not available. The fact is that when you legislate in the interests of the foreign producer the home producer bound to suffer—and he does suf- ’ fer every time such a law goes upon ’ the statute books of the U. 8.