Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — Every Voter Should Think This Over. [ARTICLE]

Every Voter Should Think This Over.

Mr. Voter, do you know that nearly $2,000,000 worth of American products are now being displaced in our own market every day as the result of the democratic Underwood tariff? What do you think might be expected after peace has been restored ? We imported, during the fiscal year ending last June, merchandise valued at $2,197,885,510. We imported during the fiscal year ending June, June, 1913, the last full year under republican tariff, merchandise valued at $1,813,008,234. That was an increase last year, under the democratic tariff of $384,877,276. That $384,877,276 is not something that might come. It is here. It is only a part of the increased flood that ik pouring into our market now; that is today taking the place of merchandise that would have been produced in this country under the republican tariff. Entente allies and neutrals have increased the total of our imports $384,877,276 at a time whe nthe $218,000,000 a yeat we ordinarily get from the central powers is shut off. The allies and neutrals have, in fact, increased their own sales to us $602,000,000 a year. Add to that what will come from the Teutons and from increased activity everywhere when Europe’s factories quit working on munitions and we reasonably may expect at least $1,000,000,000 increase of foreign goods in our market under the democratic tariff, compared with that under the law of four years ago. The democrats point to the increase last year of nearly a billion and a quarter in our experts. Everybody knows, and' the democrats do not deny, that the increase in exports was due to war orders. It was responsible for the prosperity this country is having. That artificial trade has been used to blind the people to real trade conditions; to what the democratic tariff is doing to our commerce.