Show SEES RUIN IN TARIFF STAND OF TUB THE IS Veteran Engineer Recalls Bread BreadLines BreadLines Lines of Previous Administration Admin Admin- FLAYS GOVERNOR SMITH Leland Declares His Election Would Be Greatest est Calamity WhIch Could Befall Nation We tried this Democratic free trade policy In 1893 an and those of us who can remember the bread lines the tho poverty and the suffering have no desiro to repeat the experiment says Henry M M. M Leland veteran engineer of o Detroit Mich In a letter to Chairman Work of the Republican National Com Com- We trIed It again in 1913 with similar results but were saved from further disaster or orv v by the world war Al AI Smith together with Tammany Han Hall which he now dominates and the members of the Democratic party In Inthe inthe the past have stood like adamant for either absolute free trade or a tariff for revenue only If tariff schedules are reduced to point where manufacturers in the th I labor cheap countries of Europe can bring their products Into this country and undersell our products there Is then only one of two things to do- do reduce wages or close down plants throwing millions of our workmen Into Idleness The want and distress are absolutely Indescribable I have studied the history of At Al Smith since he was a boy mingling with other boys bOYR on the sidewalks of New York I have scanned his record during the twelve years he was e member of the Legislature of New NewYork NewYork York and his record as Governor of that state To my mind It would be difficult to Imagine a greater calamity that could befall ll this country than his election to the Presidency As this letter would be too lengthy If I should hould attempt to catalogue t complete list of my reasons for the tho foregoing statement I 1 wm will confine myself my my- self to only one or two of the economie reasons for Cor my convictions One of these Is the Tariff Al Smith together with Tammany Tam Tam- I many Hall which he now dominates and the members of the Democratic party In the past have stood like adamant adamant ada- ada mant for either absolute free trade or ora ora a tariff for revenue only Is It reasonable reason reason- able now to expect the leopard to change his spots Affects 30 I Our thirty million wage earners work altogether the shortest hours and receive by far far- the largest wages of any wage earners on earth It If tariff schedules are reduced to a point where manufacturers In the cheap labor countries of Europe can bring their products Into this country and undersell our own products there Is then one of two things for our Industries indus Indus- tries to do and that is Is reduce wages to meet that competition or close closedown closedown down their plants throwIng millions of workmen into Idleness Our people largely spend as they go In fact many of them spend far In advance of their Incomes and the want and distress which would result from the cutting off of of their Incomes and the result to their creditors are absolutely lade inde Abraham Lincoln said that It if we bought a stove or a locomotive made In Europe then we had the stove or orthe orthe the locomotive but Europe had the tho money On the other hand It if we bought a stove or locomotive which was made In the United States then we not only had the tho stove or locomotive but we also had the money with which It was bought This Is II a simple problem but It Is reaching far and ot of the greatest possible le significance to the workmen of America The Is the difference between between be- be tween the full dinner pail paU and the empty dinner pall pail b between tween a nation of many millions lons of paid wen thrifty citizens as s against mIllions of people struggling with poverty Not sInce this nation was born has the electorate had the opportunity to o dr raU t as Its head a man the equal of I Herbert bert H avei ma man so so thoroughly thorough thorough- ro ly equipped by experience judgment ability and Integrity to cope successfully success success- fully with the vast mUltiplIcity of lems which confront us and capable of leading us onward and upward to further further fur fur- ther greatness With that opportunity It Is inconceivable Incon incon- that nn an enlightened citizenry would woul l allow itself to be set backward a halt half a century by surrendering Its destiny to Tammany Hall with Its unsavory un un- savory record of Booze Boodle and Bunk |