Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — Cheap Meat? [ARTICLE]

Cheap Meat?

Moscow Star-Mirror —C. L. Rickard, an American citizen, has applied for a refrigeration concession in Asuncion, Paraguay, with the intention of shipping meat, raised on the cheap South American labor, into the U. S. to compete with the products of the American farmer who lives on high priced land, pays high taxes, uses high-prived labor, and desires to live well. With the privilege of entering his meat duty free, thanks to a kind and far-sighted democratic administration Mr. Rickard has prospects of doing a large and highly profitable business. Why should the American farmer worry?

Marion Register: The Taft men and the Rooseeylt men are vieing with each other in declaring for a united party in 19X6. It means an overwhelming republican victory at the polls.

The democratic administration need not think it can fool the American people by selling Panama Canal bonds to fill its depleted treasury. Everybody will know exactly where the money came from and where it goes.

The republican press of the country has repeatedly exposed the false claim of the democrats that it was the war that cut off Tevenue. Statistics gathered from the reports of this administration show that even before the war the democratic tariff law was not an adequate revenue producer. The falling off in imports since the war began was so slight that it cannot possibly account for the shortage in revenue. The fact is that the democrats cut the tariff rates to such an extent that adequate revenue was impossible. Such is the necessary result of democratic tariff policies.

A press dispatch says that “both parties will seek campaign material the coming session of congress.” No need for the republican party to do much searching. Its own record in the upbuilding of American industry during a period of sixteen years of protective taric, its achievement in the establishmenf of the merit system in the public service, its enactment of such commendable legislation as the postal savings bank law, the parcel post, the pure food law, Panama canal construction, the reclamation law, conservation, the in-, come tax amendment, the popular election of senators amendment, and other measures too numerous to mention, furnish an abundance of affirmative campaign material. The; democrats have, in two years, sup- ! plied plenty of material with which to attack them. Extravagance, resort to the spoils system, violation of pledges, demoralisation of public service, are matters of public record and require no searching.