Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1915 — Page 2

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APROPER THE DISTRICT CHAIRMANSHIP.

According to an Imlianapoli- paj er, -former Democratic distnc; chairman C. J. .Murphy said, when asked about the recent appointment of John IS. Peter-on"of Crown Point, as dii? successor a- chairman. "Yes. Peterson was appointed two motit hs ; ' Mr. Peterson has declined the appointment, as stated last week. ut coni men tine on the statement of Murphy that Peter.on's appointment had been made two months before it was made public, tiie Tippecanoe County Democrat, the ore an of tin* Democracy in the second largest county in the district, says:

Letters received from the Democratic state headquarters as late as two weeks ago. stated that the Tenth district chairmanship was vacant, so that the announcement that Mr. Peterson was named two months ago came as a surprise to the Democrats of Tippecanoe county It was understood at one time that Joseph McDonald, of Warren county, had been Picked for the place by the state chairman. Mr. Peterson will probably be re-nominated for congress if he will accept the place. As soon as Mr. Peterson heard that he had been appointed "two months ago” he hastened to decline the job, giving as his reason that he had made several enemies hv his appointments while congressman and that his selection would not have a tendency to better conditions. So the place is vacant again unless some one else was also chosen “two months ago.” And the editor of The Jasper County Democrat was but; recently shown a letter from Murphy, written less than a month ago to an aspirant for the chairmanship, saying that he < Murphy i had fully intended recommending this aspirant for the appointment, but had just learned that the '“wet” element wag' opposed to him, and therefore he must refuse to recommend him for the place. And yet, if Mr. Murphy’s latter statement Is. to be considered, the appointment had already been made weeks before this letter was written!

YES, “AFTER THE WAR, WHAT?”

Our Republican friends have : tisi? e:iwatly c.-y that was

conducted wit h great ardor through their press bureaus for several months, until it became so absurd that 00 per cent of the members of their . own party gave them the "horse laugh.'’ and so the slogan now is, ’‘After the War, What? ’’

The spellbinders and the high paid press bureau writers now prophecy that everything wilt go to the delimit ion bow-wow .-, as soon as the great European war ends. And yet most of the great asknowledged longheaded business men of the country say that prosperity is here to stay and is increasing by leaps* and bounds. It is probably true that some of the factories now employed in manufacturing munitions of war will turn their attention to something else that will be needed here or in the countries now engaged in the most gigantic war in the history o' the civilized world. For it will he many, many years before Europe recovers from this bloody conflict, and it must look to this country for much of its supplies which have heretofore been produced at home. This will mean great and increasing prosperity tor o! r own coil fi t ry, and the foreign trade so gained will be held in large pari, no doubt. As to the present conditions of the country, a New York dispatch of Nov. 29 says;

“Although i: is reported that 17,e<m carloads of ueightjtre held up in and around the port of New York *■ waiting transshipmen t by sea, some railroad officials say it will not be necessary for other lines to follow the example of the Lackawanna railroad in placing an embargo on the receipt, of freight for shipment through this port. As showing that an enormous amount of freight is pouring through New York, it was stated that .>46 vessels were loaded here within a month, the greatest ni inber in the history of the port;” ( buries M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Co., said in an address at '-.Pittsburg on Nov. 23: “I learn today that every sidetrack along the Pennsylvania railroad between here and New York is crowded with loaded freight cars awaiting transportation facilities to foreign markets. “This mighty tonnage is being held up to the detriment of the country, because there are no ships to carry it. “American exporters generally are unhappy over their inability to find the vessels that will place their goods where they can be used.”

And this front Mr. Schwab, one of the leading manufacturers of the country. In commenting on Mr. Schwab’s statement in which he further deplored the lack of vessels to carry these goods, the Cincinnati Enquirer said:

There are now ordered or under construction in the shipbuilding yards of the Delaware river 82 vessels ot an approximate aggregate cost of $55,000,000. There are employed at these various shipbuilding plants upwards of 20,000 persons, and every shipbuilding plant in this country is offered orders beyond capacity for next year. '"There must he additional shipbuilding plants constructed in the United States atid there- must be great additions-to the capacity of the plants already established. The demands of this country alone fob vessels will keep all plants busy for the next ten years, while t c development of South and Central America commerce will call for lines > .ootio to oe uVvueu and control!-

ed by commercial interests in those countries. The congestion bt freight on the Pennsylvania railroad, as depicted by Mr. Schwab, will give ouir readers some idea of the immensity of the business of this country at this time. The New York Central, the Erie, the Baltimore and Ohio, all have the same evidences of high prosperity upon their lines and their sidetracks, and all can tell the same story of the need of the country for a merchant marine. The facilities of transportation for the United States must expand, must increase, to accommodate the expanding and increasing business of the country. New York, Chicago and other cities report unprecedented business. The Chicago Herald of Wednesday last said:

“Chicago trade is the best in years. Merchants are unanimous in calling before Yule business booming. Everybody has money. Without exception the managers of the big department stores and other establishments where holiday goods are sold declare the volume of ante-Yuletide business is by far the greatest it has ever been.” The Associated Press, after a thorough canvass of the United States, says: “Americans have more money for Christmas shopping this year than at any time since the record year of 1906, and are spending it. freely. Prosperity is evident in every part of the country.” Coming a little nearer home, reports made to the Auditor of State of Indiana for the year ending Sept. .90, show that the deposits of the 726 state and private hanks, trust and mortgage and guarantee com-

panies coming under state supervision were $ I 0,459,502 greater than the preceeding year. The total deposits aggregate $208,246,991. Overdrafts showed a decrease compared to the preceeding year, .while resources, surplus, accounts and loans showed a healthy increase. The Republican spellbinder and the Republican editorial writer is indeed in sore straits tor campaign thunder. President Wilson and his advisers have kept our country free from a mixiip in war With other countries, and the gold of Europe is coming to our shores by the shipload, figureatively speaking, and is finding its way through the busy marts of trade to all sections of the United States,

It is indeed not to be wondered that there is deep wailing and gnashing of teeth in the camp of the Republican politicians and would-be of-fice-holders.

HOW WILL THEY RECONCILE THEIR ARGUMENTS?

More than a year ago that branch of American business which depends for its fabulous profits on special privilege of one sort or another, began a campaign aimed to discredit tin* tariff policy of the present Democratic adininistration. The same interests had just been routed in confusion in its attack on the federal reserve hanks, and the determination of despair was everywhere evident in its attempt to villify the tariff policy. Notwithstanding the fact that the present tariff had not been operating long enough ,to demonstrate either its niems or its faults, tiris campaign of opposition endeavored to convince the public that the tariff as lowered by the ad-

ministration would presently bring oii an industrial panic unequaled in American history. The panic did not materialize. On the contrary, business began to be accelerated, factories which had been idle in the closing days of the Taft administration began to kindle the fires in their furnaces, the wheels of business began to turn faster and faster, until today the United States is enjoying the greatest era of prosperity in its history.

Having had to back away from the issue of ”hadr times,” the big business. which still smarts under the humiliation of having its fabulous profits out down by a reduction of the tariff, endeavors to spread the heresy that the tariff has been a monumental failure in that it has failed to provide the required revenues for maintaining the government,, and that the era of prosperity is clue entirely to the war in Europe. Ignoring the fact that business had begun to pick up prior to the outbreak of the war, let us admit that the war lias made such demands upon America as has brought about this season of overtime and double shifts in all ourjmanufacturing establishments, and let Us see where this admission brings us regarding the efficiency of the tariff.

Taking tlie figures, which have been thoroughly canvassed so that they may not be disputed, we find that Austria-Hungary exported, in IPI2 merchandise to the value of $554,973,000, Belgium exported $702,635,000 worth of goods, France $1,295,528,000, Germany $2,131,718,000, the United Kingdom $2,371,073,000, and Russia $782,181,000. These figures look formidable, and they will serve to illustrate the present issue without adding the statistics for the other countries in-:-r'* v 7 1 ? ’ ’ - nV-b- -v, v »v. a 14 UiQ Viu.l.

It is a known fact that Belgium, industrially, has been ’friped off the map. Her exports for this year will be so nominal that they will be unworthy of mention; it is a known fact that northern France, the great industrial district of that war-ridden country, has been devastated until her production has been reduced to less than 25 per cent of normal. It is estimated—by German authorities —that Germany, through the necessity of using many" of her great factories for the manufacture of war supplies and her inability to get transportation on the high seas, will show less than 40 per cent of her normal exports. England’s exports have been cut down less than any of those of the warring countries, but even there the necessity of turning her factories into the service of the army and navy has made a marked diminution in her products for foreign markets.

Now, Republican friends say that the tariff is a failure and that the war has nothing to do with it, they say that we have a measure of prosperity on account of the war, but that Democratic policies have nothing to do with it.

In other words, they attribute the prosperity to the war and the lack or revenues through the tariff to the Democratic party. It is so simple a proposition as to make argument silly that if the war has created a demand for Americanfaade goods the world over, the war must at the same time be responsible for the inability of these countries to supply their own and each other’s needs in the same measure as they did prior to August, 1911.

For the year endirig .hi no 0, 1914; we received into the United States, subject to tariff, from the principal, war countries goods in the valuation as indicated below:

From Austria-Ilungary, $20,110,82 4; .from Delgium, $41,035,532; from France, $1 4 1,44 0,2 52; from Germany, $189,91 9,1 36; front Italy, $5 6,4 07,671 ; front Russia, $20,831,lkl; front the United Kingdom, $293,661,304. This Vast volume of imports, which passed under our tariff laws, has been reduced-—these countries not only are •unable to produce enough goods to have a surplus for exportation, but they are unable to supply their own needs and are therefore crying out to America for aid. Not only have their imports to America been cut down more than .'0 per cent, but their imports to other countries lias been cut down in the same measure, and those countries which get their raw materials from England, Germany, France arid Russia, being unable to get the material, are unable to produce on the same scale as they did before the war, and as a result the exports from South American countries and others have been cut down. The same logic which’ concludes that American prosperity is due entirely to the war must admit, unless i: reverses itself in the same breath, that the war is responsible for the failure of the tariff to provide adequate revenues for the government, and, having concluded that an abnormal situation has decreased the revenues, there is no longer a sane argument against the innate merit or demerit of the tariff policy. it is a difficult matter to indicate the cleaVage between the natural acceleration of business and that which results front the abnormal situation in Europe, but it certainly is so plain that every man, except the one who shuts his eyes and turns away his head, can see that when there are no imports coming into" a country, a tariff is impotent to raise revenue, though it might be the highest tariff in history. It is very apparent that the Republican politicians will attempt to make an issue, of the tariff, and yet the tariff is deader than an Egyptian mummy.’’-

Industry can well afford to make up the deficit in governmental revenues, caused by the war, by taking a little money from the enormous increase in earnings, caused by the war, and paying it into the government in taxes of one sort and another.

'But the special privilege business man—and he is the fellow who is making an issue -' foi~ the Republican politician—doesn’t want to give up anything. He wants to play both ends against the middle; he wants a high tariff to protect him on one end and war prosperity to protect him on the other. lie wants to play the public—the consumer—going and coming. He doesn't give a Tinker’s d about consistency—what he is after is the dividend.-—The Indiana Forum.

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