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Show AN OMINOUS ITEM Many of our renders havo Been, no doubt, In tho metropolitan newspapers, news-papers, the dally syndicated articles on financial topics which nro signed Holland. These articles nro authentic authen-tic In ovcry pnrtlculnr; and It Is, therofore, of Interest to note this paragraph from ono of Holland's latest lat-est letters: "Thero Is ono curious, perhaps ominous, om-inous, certainly highly suggestive Item In the official report which tolls of our foreign trndo since September Septem-ber 1, of last year. In tho yenr 1014 tho money vnluo of our imports was greater than tho llko vnluo of Imports Im-ports of nny other year. It almost reached tho two billion dollar mnrk. There has been nn nlmost cyclonic chango In this respect In tho past twelve months. Tho commodities which other nations sold to us in 1014 so greatly as to mnko n new record wcro brought hero through the operation of tho now tariff law." This brings ub back to nn Important Import-ant economic fact. Just now the tendency Is to hurrah about our tremendous tre-mendous oxport business, caused by the war; and wo aro In danger of forgetting tho tremendous flood of Imports which wo had beforo tho war diminished them, which threw so many of our workmen out of employment, em-ployment, nnd which will como again when tho war is over unless wo do something to prevent It. Theso Import statistics of nearly two billions a year arose as Holland says, through operation of tho new tariff lnw. They wero checked in part only by tho war. If they nro not to bo repeated, tho new tariff law must bo repealed and a protective tnrlff substituted for it. It is uso-loss uso-loss to expect tho Democrats to mako this substitution, nnd It tho ominous Item Is not to grow oven moro ominous n Republican Congress nnd n Republican President must bo elected next year. |