Show WHY SHOULD WE CHANGE Was there ever eer a time like this Great ship loads of foreign iron and steel are coming into American merican ports Our own mills cannot supply the demand They are worked d to the limit of their productive pro ductile capacity er E Every first-class first mill hand is kept busy and at wages higher than any other manufacturing manufacturing turing country in the world pa pays s. The foreign n mill mill- owners are keeping their employees ees occupied for longer hours and at lesser lessel wages so 80 as to he be able to produce more cheaply than we They add freight and tariff und and still make mal a profit t in our home homo mar mar- ket It is iR hard to ee eo how American manufacturers and workmen would be benefited by repealing the thet t tariff on iron and steel and allowing foreigners to flood the market with their theiL products True such fuch free tee trade would give us the cheapest possible ible iron and nd steel and would help a certain small class of manufacturers But it would make maIm our own mills unprofitable unless our workmen accepted much lower wages With ith lower wages fewer would be employed With idleness and we should get back to the days of 93 Does any sane self respecting American want the change |